Cambridge artist Matt Chinian will open his studio for an informal show of recent work on Sunday, Jan. 22, from noon to 4 p.m.
At 2 p.m. he will give a studio talk on his early art influences and reflect on historic painters he still loves. The talk will be a hybrid event, both in person and livestreamed on Facebook at facebook.com/mchinian.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Chinian graduated from Bennington College in the early 1980s with a major in painting and sculpture and earned an MFA in sculpture and drawing from SUNY Albany in the late 1980s.
An early career in sculpture fabrication, sign-making and cold casting led to building restoration and carpentry and a move to Cambridge, New York in the 1990s. Ten years ago he returned to landscape painting, a skill he learned early in his education. Since then, his unique style and philosophy of prosaic realism has emerged.