Today we’d like to introduce you to Matthew Weimer.
Hi Matthew, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I was born in Arlington and have lived in the DFW area my entire life. Throughout my life and growing up, I have always been curious about how something works, how far can it be pushed, and adapting things to what and how I want it to be. Looking back, I have always been artistic in some function and technically minded. As a child, I created these working contraption installations made of thread, string, cardboard, and a lot of tape. Some took up my whole room— I did that up to about the age of 8 and stopped for some reason. Fast forward about 12 years—I was a little over a year into my associate’s degree in Liberal Arts at North Lake College when I was introduced to Art. I started out in sculpture, and for the next two years, my work was primarily sculptural until my last semester. Honestly, I did not know what I wanted to do or what exactly to get a degree in til my final year. The other art classes I needed to graduate, I took them my last semester, and that started the transition to painting. Then, I went to The University of Texas at Arlington in 2018, majoring in Painting, and graduated in the fall of 2021. In the fall 2022, I started my Master’s in Studio Art at Southern Methodist University, I will finish in the Spring 2024 semester.
I am a Painter with other modes; everything is a painting after all—only the action and material are different. It is about controlling light and altering the surface or object to your desire. I loves the technical and mostly forgotten analog ways, including the physical and electrical.
Outside of Art, I am a proud nerd who loves video games, Star Wars, and D&D, and I am an Analog Electronic Repair Specialist.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Nothing in life worthwhile is easy; things change and happen changing how you go along the road– while the road changes as you go along the road.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am a Painter. Within my work, I focus on homosocial and physical intimacy—while exploring sexuality as a Demisexual through Pink Boys (depictions of pink male figures) and the Queer Homoerotic world that they exist in. They are proud to be tender and to be intimate with one another in any form or situation. The Pink Boy is a tender vessel of intimacy and queerness, combining elements of sensuality, reclamation, and ambiguity, shaped by a deliberate process of balance with explicit expression.
Here recently, I have been learning how to use a sewing machine and improving sewing by hand–seeing how it will function in my work. Another way to push and play with intimacy within the Queer Homoerotic world I have created. I find the odd and non-standard size surfaces more intimate for what I do.
I am known for the Pink Boys.
What’s next?
My plans are to just keep painting.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.matthewweimerart.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/matthew.weimer.art
