Matthew Warren Lee

House Mouse Architetural Font Design Page Five, Pencil on Bristol, 11 x 17 inches, 2019

I've been at work on the House Mouse Architectural font for two years now, and 2019 has yielded pages five and six. Above, zero through seven and below 8, 9, %, $, plus, minus, multi...

Doubling Function for Thrackles with 20-Vertex Thrackle, Pencil on Bristol, 11 x 17 in., 2018

Much of winter break was spent working on a series of geometry problems and this post shows the fruits of that effort. The above drawing illustrates how any thrackle can double...

Una Historia Una Veritas, 24 x 36 in., Oil on Panel, 2019

Fresh off the easel is the first official painting of 2019. Una Historia Una Veritas means "one history one truth" in latin. This phrase is the motto of Dr. Thomas Carr for whom I excavate dinosaur bones with dur...

 Thrackle Conjecture, Pencil on Bristol, 11 x 17 inches, 2018

These things are "thrackles," drawings where every line touches every other line once and only once (by endpoint or traverse). Everyone draws thrackles all the time - a five pointed star and a triangle are bo...

Most of you know I spend my summers in Montana digging up dinosaurs for the Carthage Institute of Paleontology. I have been volunteering on dinosaur digs since 2015 but this summer was special because I finally brought a group of my own students from the Milwaukee Inst...

Three paintings produced this summer are now on public display for the first time. The MIAD Faculty Exhibition is in the Frederick Layton Gallery at MIAD. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00am-5:00pm. The Show runs until October 6th.

The show will hav...

Una Historia Una Veritas is quickly becoming 2018's largest project. As with images like this one, containing geometry and lots of detail, preliminary works become a necessity. I did an entire series of 5 x 5 inch paintings for the Permanent City and in a similar vein...

Two of my paintings have just been published in the International Painting Annual 7 (INPA). INPA is published once a year from an open call to painters globally. The Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, a Cincinnati based non-profit, releases the book each ye...

House Mouse is back on the agenda!

My apprentice Matthew Tomczack has taken on the herculean task of turning the letters of my font House Mouse into vectors. For those not familiar with this process, a vector is a digital image that has no resolution so it can change si...

The Fortress, Oil on Panel, 12 x 24 inches, 2018

I was mildly dissatisfied with the Fortress when I completed it earlier this summer. At that time, however, I figured that I might as well just make an entirely new painting if I wanted to change its lighting scheme and p...