Open studio Jan. 22 in Cambridge

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Artist Matt Chinian with an example of ‘prosaic realism.’

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.