About The Artist

"What do you see?" is often one of my favorite questions to ask viewers of my work. The responses are always different and very surprising since not one view is like the other. It is what I love most about art, the ability to bring strangers together for a moment in time, bringing them back to a child-like state of imagination, creativity and not being afraid to let others know what they are imagining.

I have always seen the world/universe we live in as unpredictable and chaotic, yet balanced and infinite; anything can happen and anything can be created from nothing. My paintings usually start with the idea of a landscape; an area where I can play with wild forms, textures and colors. I finish when I feel I have pushed the detail all I can, resulting in a dream-like landscape, loaded with saturated colors, unique textures and subliminal forms for viewers to find. Enjoy!!

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Who I Am

        Christine Mateu is an abstract expressionist painter who was born in Hoboken, NJ. She received a painting degree from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2012 and since then has been showing her works in galleries across New Jersey and New York. Recent galleries being The Beast with A Million Eyes in Nyack, NY and The Art Factory in Paterson, NJ She currently works out of a home studio in Ottawa, Illinois.

Past Exhibitions

Two-Person Exhibition
2015    The Beast With A Million Eyes, "Nature and Man: by Bret Salvatore        
            and Christine Mateu", Nyack, NY 

Group Exhibitions
2016    Skylands Gallery. "Earth Matters". Wantage, NJ
2015    Skylands Gallery. "Reflections". Wantage, NJ
2015    Skylands Gallery. "Peace on Earth". Wantage, NJ.
2015    The Beast With A Million Eyes, "Masks, Mystery & Madness", Nyack,
​            NY, (Curated by Lex Reibestein)
2014    Art Factory, "Octoberfest", Paterson, NJ.