Matt Tisdale Artist Bio & Statement – “Flights of Fancy”

Matt Tisdale (Westerville, Ohio) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design (Ohio). Tisdale completed commercial and residential mural work before entering his career in graphic design and illustration, through which he has worked for clients such as Hollister Co. Tisdale’s paintings have been exhibited across the United States in juried shows and arts festivals, including the Black Swamp Arts Festival (Bowling Green, Ohio), Spectrum Fantastic Art Live (Kansas City, Missouri), Art Birmingham (Birmingham, Michigan) and Art in the Loop (Memphis, Tennessee). His work has been accepted multiple times into the annual Crosby Festival of the Arts in Toledo Botanical Garden (Ohio), through which he was recently awarded Second Place in Painting in 2024.

Artist Statement

The art movement that my work best relates to is Neo-Surrealism. The defining characteristics within the painting are just as important as the viewer’s interpretation of the art. They advocate that descriptive expressions are vital, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to a full range of imagination. Surrealism found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that is beyond formal organization.

Click to view the Flights of Fancy exhibition catalogue, containing art images, prices and artist information from the full exhibit.

Join Matt Tisdale on February 13 from 6-8pm for the Artists’ Talks & Demos with Carrie Hawkins.

Artists Tisdale and Hawkins will share stories and inspirations for the exhibited artworks of Flights of Fancy.