Matthew Keller

I moved to the East Coast from Colorado four years ago to be part of the art mecca that I envisioned. After graduation I had moderate success as an emerging artist in local galleries and museums but I still yearned to experience what the other side of the U.S. had to offer. My goal is to actively take part in the New England art world, while pushing for more contemorary ideas and outlets for new thought. Most of the work that I have produced over the last few years has dealt with many different aspects of organized religion including sexual repression and ties to religious belief, martyrdom (both sexual and spiritual), deep questioning of humanity’s involvement concerning devotion to holy beliefs, and a struggle to understand the importance and changes that effect religion over time. I strive to force a probing of the origins and bindings that both religious and moral teachings leave all of us with. These interests are very much to explore inconsistencies with my own beliefs and the contradictions involved in many of the churches teachings. The work produces feelings of alienation inconsistency, confusion, and duplicity because all intertwine issues of sexuality, guilt, and depravity with the holy, blessed and the sanctified. These connections force me to question my own train of thought and push for moral understanding.