I am interested in the alienation experienced in the larger cities, the loss of identity, the loneliness, the stresses on relationships, the power of images, as in the giant billboards that show the perfect body type.

I find my inspirations in my immediate surroundings.

I look at the people I meet, magazines, TV, from high culture to junk culture, everything is source material.

Terry Matassoni

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"Terry Matassoni deals with the rootless, the alienated and the self absorbed. The characters that people his paintings inhabit nevertheless a world enflamed by nuance, energy and magic. The world that these paintings present is intense and dramatic." Ann Mc Culloch (read more)

"There is a sense of alienation and social dislocation that pervade these works, evidencing the trials and tribulations of urban consumer society, and the quest for identity in a mass media culture." (read more)