ABOUT
Represented by: Billis/Williams Gallery
Los Angeles, CA 90034 | 310.838.3685 | www.billiswilliams.com | gallery@billiswilliams.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
I use photographs that I’ve taken as a source for my painting, and though the work might appear to be Photorealism, I don’t consider myself a photo-realist painter. Thank goodness! I can’t imagine the patience required, or the strict adherence to objectivity for objectivity’s sake or the desire toward the elimination of the artist in the art altogether – these being some of the hallmarks established by the first generation painters in the genre and carried forward through to the present. Instead, I’m willing to inject myself, my story and my emotion into my imagery. In much of my work, I leave plenty of detail out. Sometimes entire backgrounds are eliminated and instead, an improvised landscape appears. The intention within my subject is to arouse emotion in the viewer. Anything goes! Longing, nostalgia, sentimentality… dread even. It’s all acceptable. I invite you to linger in front of my work. You’ll notice the brushwork and subtle inconsistencies. I’m all about verisimilitude and not exactitude. Something a little more lyrical than literal.
BIOGRAPHY
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley, CA. Moving locales shortly thereafter, most of his childhood, however was spent a stone’s throw from Redondo Beach in Torrance. Growing up enveloped by the warm clime and crystalline light of idyllic southern California in the late 60s/early 70s left an indelible mark on his young psyche that he’s carried forward into adulthood, informing the look, feel and subject matter of his artistic oeuvre to date.
Condron explains that his work is largely autobiographical. That the scenes he seeks out to paint are, by necessity reminiscent of the common, everyday places he spent time in or viewed out of the corner of his eye, growing up. Moreover, it is the design aspects of the interiors, furniture, and industrial pallet in use, typical of those decades, that he finds endlessly captivating - and harder and harder to find.
The artist has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Boston, New York and his work has been published in The Boston Globe Magazine (Critic's Pick, July, 2010), The Artist's Magazine, OTCT Crier, The Artist's Magazine, Riviera Magazine, American Art Collector, and New American Paintings. His work is found in collections throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He currently lives and works in Portland, OR.
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EDUCATION
1997 BA, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Billis/Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Billis/Williams Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2014 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 New works, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Bakersfield Museum Of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2012 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2007 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 HANG, San Francisco, CA
2004 HANG, San Francisco, CA
2001 Cafe Royale, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2025 Cityscape XV, Billis/Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Group show, Four Seasons, Westlake Village, CA
2013 The Cityscape Show III, George Billis Gallery, Los Angles, CA
2012 Washington County Museum Of Fine Art, Hagerstown, MD
2011 Agora Gallery, New York City, NY
2011 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2008 J Flynn Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2008 Art Institute, Portland, OR
2008 GBAC, Portland, OR
2005 Contemporary Art Fair, NYC, NY
2005 Contemporary Realism, Mobile, AL
2002 Fine Arts Du Jour, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2018 American Artwork
2013 American Art Collector
2012 American Art Collector
2011 International Artist, Finalist, Feb/March #77
2010 The Boston Globe Magazine, Critic's Pick, July
2010 The Artist's Magazine, April Issue, Feature
2009 OTCT Crier, Artist Spotlight, May Issue
2008 The Artist's Magazine Dec. Issue, The Best Art of 2008
2007 Riviera Magazine Nov. Issue
2006 American Art Collector, Vol.3, Book 1 Western States edition
2005 New American Paintings, Jan. Issue #55, West Coast edition
