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Angel

Digital Paintings, 2025.

A continuation of the themes explored in Late Stage Mythology, this work deepens my investigation into how meaning is constructed within the visual noise of contemporary life. Each composition is a maximalist convergence of analog and digital—photographs of my hand-painted and collaged works are reassembled with three-dimensionally illustrated elements, forming dense digital tapestries that blur the line between painting, sculpture, and simulation.

These compositions employ Judeo-Christian-influenced archetypes as recurring avatars for spirituality and human longing. These figures appear not as symbols of doctrine, but as echoes of inherited myth—visual remnants through which I explore belief, redemption, and the search for transcendence.

Together, these works reflect the tension between our physical and digital existences, asking how spirituality, identity, and meaning evolve in a crowded, chaotic world where reality and simulation are increasingly intertwined.

Hardware: Apple iPad Pro, Apple pencil, MacBook Pro

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

Media offerings : Limited and single edition prints on paper, wall mounted animations.

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Exhibition

Bits & Pieces Nov. 08, 2025

YURIKO YAMAGUCHI • WC RICHARDSON • DAN TREADO • CAROL BROWN GOLDBERG • TOM BUNNELL • CHRISTOPHER BAER • ROBIN BELL • WOLF KAHN • ISABEL MANALO • JONATHAN MONAGHAN • MATTHEW CURRY • JENNIFER SAKAI • JULIA BLOOM • TOM GREEN • NANCY SANSOM REYNOLDS • TREVOR YOUNG

ON DISPLAY THROUGH NOVEMBER 29, 2025

Addison/Ripley Fine Art

studio insights

Process: Angel

Digital assemblage

My approach to digital art is grounded in an analog sensibility. Although I work primarily within digital environments such as Photoshop, I treat each layer, texture, and pixel as though it were a tangible material—responsive, imperfect, and capable of gestural nuance. Through the spontaneous manipulation of layers and assets, I construct compositions and visual languages that could not exist within the constraints of the natural world.

In this process, pixels become the equivalents of pigment and graphite; simulated textures, dithering, and pixelation operate as analogues to traditional mark-making. The aim is not to replicate the surface of painting, but to embrace the digital medium as a site of authentic expression—where intuition, accident, and material exploration converge in a manner parallel to physical studio practice.

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Contact

We welcome collaborations, commissions, and conversations. Whether you’re a brand, institution, or collector interested in Matthew Curry’s work—or simply curious to learn more—please reach out. The studio is based in Washington, D.C., and works with clients and collaborators worldwide.