Featured Painting, Hordes

My Hordes is one of several paintings that examines herd behaviors of small objects. Resembling new sprouts on thin stalks, or small moths or butterflies, or microbes, here they sway about and dance rather coquettishly against an almost inviting orange-hued background. Though less menacing compared to those in Whirring, they still manage to stir some unease regarding things invisible, during our current protracted Coronavirus pandemic.


Hordes
20”x30”
Oil on Canvas
Completed in 2020

Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com 

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Featured Painting, Whirring

Featured Painting, Whirring. The difference between the sublime and the terrifying can be surprisingly inconsequential as demonstrated in my new oil painting Whirring, which depicts a kaleidoscope of butterflies, bursting from compact layers of black and brown loam. Individually, each of these quivering insects emits delicate beauty; yet, in league, they form a confusing mass, incomprehensible and overwhelming, and the lively pattern they weave becomes rather terrifying.


Whirring / 旋風 / Surrenden Whirring
20” x 30”
Oil on Canvas
Completed in 2019

Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com   


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My Featured Painting - Colony

My painting Colony depicted a roughly sketched tight grid, in which several skeletal ants nervously roam around these low barriers. The whole painting was awash in a cold and almost sinister bluish green, and the insects were barely discernible at the first glance, as they seemed to have merged with the thin grids underneath their wiry bodies. The painting was a bit starling as it presented the ants in close-up, and they looked rather monstrous in their enormities.

 
Colony
Oil on Canvas
22" x 28"
Completed in 2011

This painting is currently in a Group exhibition Color Speaks (Sep. 23, 2017 - Jan. 20, 2018), in the vibrant art district of Downtown Berkeley.

Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com

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