ABOUT HENRY MATHIEU

Henry Mathieu is from Jackson Hole, WY. He studied art at Williams College, and he’s spent most of his career in the advertising industry. In 2012, Mathieu co-founded Gravy Boat Regatta, an independent branding, advertising and design firm. After the COVID-19 pandemic, Mathieu and his longtime partner, Brantley Inman, left Brooklyn and relocated back to his hometown.

Broadly speaking, Mathieu paints ridge lines, roof lines, and power lines. His art practice is, in large part, an effort to come to terms with the collective will mankind imposes on the landscape. Many of his better paintings depict a tension between the natural environment and the built environment. Rarely do we see an unobstructed view of a vast expanse. We take for granted all the panes of glass, cell towers, cheaply built buildings, guard rails and asphalt that constantly interrupt how we experience our native surroundings.

Mathieu is interested in the often awkward, sometimes funny, occasionally beautiful juxtapositions of: economic growth and plant growth, engineering and entropy, suburban sprawl and the sublime.