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Matt Anzak's artwork ranges from figure and landscape to nonobjective abstraction, and explores a variety of media, tecnique, and subject matter. Matt's work is regularly exhibited throughout the South Western United States, France, and Italy. He is represented by Red Dot Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by 1727 in Dallas, Texas, by Galleria Alba in Ferrara, Italy, and is a founding member of the artist group, Ivy Paris in Paris, France. Mathew currently works out of his remodeled 1890's farm house in Denton, Texas, where he also plays a number of musical instruments, and designs and builds "livable artwork" spaces.

Mathew Anzak was born in 1976 in the Rio Grande River Valley of South Texas. Later Mathew moved to the Dallas area to be near his grandparents, both of whom became a lasting influence in music, art, and architecture. At an early age, Mathew became interested in the art of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on mythology and religion, often drawing from the works of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. In 1992, he began his first international studies, participating in the University of Washington's Art and Architecture course in Russia. While in Russia, Mathew was influenced not only by the geometric design and fantastic color of the architecture, but also by the symbolic nature of early Byzantine iconography.

In the following years, the philosophy and ritual illustrated within the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" and the intense imagery of Dante began to inspire an interest in a darker view of artistic and spiritual relevance. Travel in Central American rainforests gave Matt a deeper understanding of the natural spontaneity of creativity. Further travels in Europe exposed Matt to artists like Picasso and Kandinsky; and a newly developed interest in metaphysics and in quantum mechanics became a focus for artistic inspiration.

In 1999, Matt concluded his studies in Fine Art and Philosophy at the University of North Texas. His exposure to Existentialism and to South Asian Philosophy perpetuated his desire to look inward for subjective truths. Matt's early paintings reflected a mixture of German Expressionism and Surrealism, referencing social political concepts in the context of mythology and dream motifs. Expressionist techniques like action painting became a layer in an artistic process of plasticity, while automatic writing provoked both an intense interest in Symbology, and a newfound interest in the art of the ancient world. Matt's current artistic focus examines the Hermetic Arts and the narrative of cosmic creation as illustrated by the Vedic culture of India, and by the ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Mayan civilizations.