Born (in 1974) into a clan of Tuscan Raiders and reared in Los Angeles, then raised on a diet of comic books, horror movies, and pornography, Matthew Bone injects a distinctive voice into his painting. Pride, lust, vengeance, the lurid underbelly of humanity, and the allegories that illustrate the consequences of it's revelation have long been the focus of his work. By utilizing the conventions of pop culture, and it's willingness to embrace the artifice as the sincere, Matthew is able to create a reinvisioned modern mythology. Bone's work can be seen internationally. He lives with his ol' lady and a menagerie of pets at the bottom of a wishing well in downtown Los Angeles.