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Matthew Regier is an artist and printmaker who grew up on a corn farm in South Central Nebraska. A self-taught artist whose formal study is in philosophy and theology, Regier lives in Matfield Green, Kansas, a very small town in the heart of Flint Hills Tallgrass prairie.
Regier’s prints attend to the prairie as an ecosystem of which the artist is a part. The practice of landscape is not simply a case of observing but of being observed. There is no fixed, objective point from which to view the world but only an exploration from within. In this way Regier’s images are a mapping not only of the outside world but of the inner one. The artist is an embodied knower whose vision, in the words of philosopher Maurice Merlau-Ponty, “opens upon a texture of being.”
Matthew and his wife, Tia, are co-founders of The School for Rural Culture and Creativity in Matfield Green, a community space that seeks to integrate art, agriculture, and ecology into a vision for a place-based life on the land.
Regier’s prints can be found and purchased at the the printmaking studio at “The School.” Regular hours are Thursdays 1-5pm and Saturdays 8am-12pm, or contact the artist to make an appointment.
