Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Buddha-like calm, the 52-year old Matthews has been manager of the Science Center stockroom since it opened in 1974. "I wasn't here too long before I saw the walls needed brightening," he says. So Matthews started bringing in his own multi-colored artworks--nearly a dozen--to decorate the coldly modernistic setting...
Always willing to chat about his art, Matthews keeps a photo album of his other work to show those who are really interested. But he is surprised by how many people come to the stockroom to buy computer discs or other office supplies, and don't notice the artwork. "It's amazing how little people see," he says...
...time champion boxer, this fighter-turned-artist runs the stockroom by himself, providing students and faculty with an inexpensive and aesthetically pleasing alternative to shopping in the Square. An artist without an agent or a gallery, Matthews' one man "show" in the stockroom is a well-kept artistic secret in an unusual place...
...easel, Matthews has painted in many styles, ranging from figurative portraits to Jackson Pollack gesture paintings. But in the past fews, years he's been working on abstract investigations of the square, some of which hang on the stockroom walls. "What brought about the geometrical painting was a color theory course I took at the Art Institute. You can go on forever with this work," he says...
What confronts the customer at the stockroom counter is "16+5," a disturbing combination of bright purple and yellow, dull gold and dark purple lines. Five large squares emerge from a combination of the sixteen, hence the title...