The Brooklyn Rail

Matthew received his BA from Messiah College in 2004 and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2008, where he was awarded a postgraduate fellowship.

His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and Two Coats of Paint, among others.

I joined Matthew in his studio last month to talk about side paintings, oddball works, and the complicated feelings that come with using your own face as subject matter.

We talk about his obsessive search for the perfect paint mixture, the literal hundreds of hours it takes him to finish a painting, and his ongoing battle with his own technique.

Yeah.

The, uh, essay he wrote with Phil Neil for Endnotes, and from the Brooklyn Rail, and now from Heat Wave Mag.

Heat Waves, yes.

In the third issue, an essay called Black Box Of Production.

Virginia Konchan is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Requiem, and the short story collection Anatomical Gift.

Her publications include poems in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Atlantic, essays and criticisms in the Boston Review and American Poetry Review, um, ch- her translations from French in the Brooklyn Rail, Asymptote, and Circumference, and fiction in Story Quarterly, Joyland, and Memorious.

Uh, please welcome Aubrey and Virginia.

[clapping] Hi.