Artwork > Yard Works

Wanting to See What’s Beneath
Paint swatch collage
13.5” x 8"
2025
Left Out
Paint swatch collage
13.25" x 8.25"
2025
Where We Left Things
Paint swatch collage & acrylic on panel
37" x 24"
2026
Home Late (Just outside)
Pain swatch collage.
13" x 7"
2025
Disconnected
Pain swatch collage.
12.5" x 7.5"
2025
Leaky Hose
Pain swatch collage.
12.5" x 7"
2025
My bike's outside
Pain swatch collage.
12" x 7.5"
2025
Forgotten Chair
Pain swatch collage.
13" x 7.25"
2025
Did you put the hose away?
Pain swatch collage.
12" 6.5
2024
Garden Hose
Pain swatch collage.
12" x 6.25"
2024
Playing Catch
Pain swatch collage.
11.75" x 6.25"
2024

Working with cut paint swatches, patterned forms, and the visual vocabulary of everyday life, this series of works pull from the architecture and textures of yard spaces.

My backyard growing up was a place of boundaries but also but also one of curiosity and testing limits. These memories are layered with my children’s experiences of their own yard — the same blend of containment and exploration, familiarity and discovery.” – Adam Matak