The Inverted Horizon

Meet the Artist

My name is Matt White. Born in Columbus, Ohio, I have a Fine Art degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design. I am a fine artist whose work is fundamentally structured by the balance of opposing forces. My creative practice is a visual culmination of years of sketching, deeply influenced by the immersive worlds of science fiction and fantasy literature, notably the works of Frank Herbert, Arthur C. Clarke, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

I am an avid chess and billiards player, and I approach my canvas as a structured space requiring both strategy and spontaneity. This analytical perspective, paired with the discipline of my background in Kung Fu and Tai Chi, allows me to bridge the structural with the fluid. My art explores the basic concept of the Yin and the Yang, translating these philosophical binaries into a tangible, visual language. I currently live in Dublin, Ohio, where I continue to create, supported by my wife, Beth, and our Shiba Inu, Fuji.

Artist Statement

Experience Matters

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art
Columbus College of Art & Design

My work explores the threshold between structure and sentience - where engineered systems meet the forces that escape them. I am drawn to forms that are half-invented and half-remembered: drifting architectures, symbolic notations, and biological shapes that refuse singular meaning. These hybrid entities inhabit spaces where boundaries dissolve, transforming the mechanical into the organic, and language into pulse or breath.

I use fragmentation deliberately, filling surfaces with hieroglyphic marks as if a forgotten script is trying to cohere. Rooted forms coil through these lattices, disrupting symmetry and suggesting that life emerges in the gaps - the places where precision breaks down and imagination takes over.

These works exist as contemplative landscapes of uncertainty. They invite viewers to navigate the piece as one navigates memory: moving between the decipherable and the unknowable, assembling meaning from fragments that do not quite align. Ultimately, my goal is to create spaces where ambiguity is not a problem to solve, but an ecosystem to inhabit.

Exhibitions

2010 — Brothers Drake, Columbus, OH

2011 — Kooma, Columbus, OH