Lots of new work!

Check out "Enyo", "I am the Source", and "My Soul is Round Like a Bird". These new series explore my obsession with texture and movement. Enjoy!

New Work: Yet to be Realized

See my latest work, "Yet to be Realized" - matthewatabet.com

New Work!

Check out "Eleven Years Old" and the "Mist" series - matthewatabet.com

In these works, I'm experimenting more with black and white and trying out a single point perspective. These pieces are about the dustier corners of childhood in America - the open spaces that are part of the American ideal of childhood but are so seldom experienced. The midwest was a kind of Orient for my generation - powerful, exotic, mysterious, and quickly disappearing within globalization.

Life's Glowing Tree

"Gray is all theory, green is life's glowing tree."
- Goethe

It is yours

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”

- Ayn Rand

New Website

The new matthewatabet.com is up - come visit!

The Imagination

"The imagination is not a State: it is the Human Experience itself." - William Blake

Self Awareness

"Every advance, every conceptual achievement of humankind has been connected with an advance in self awareness."
- Carl Jung