Natural Synthesis | Matthew Mitros

Natural Synthesis references the natural systems of parasitic plant life and their need to coexist with their host. The viewer is confronted with a disorienting sense of weight and orientation as the growth logic of plant life has been altered by shifting (or removing) the effects of gravity. Illusionary acts of tension and the forced fusion between what is seemingly organic in form versus what is clearly machined will struggle in a symbiotic state. The conflict between the two can be discovered in their function; the organic is predicated by survival where as the machined is predicated by efficiency.

Matthew Mitros was born in Philadelphia in 1978. Upon completing his BFA in Ceramics at Pennsylvania State University, he was an Artist-In-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts as well as The Archie Bray Foundation, and has exhibited work throughout North America and Europe. Mitros holds an MFA from the University of Washington, and teaches Ceramics and Sculpture at South Seattle Community College.