”These paintings and monotype/drawings are made up of  layers that are built up, scraped off, and crisscrossed into sliding planes of color. They refer to aerial landscape patterns and tectonic geologic strata, as well as rural industrialism, industrial tourism, the power grid, and a certain latent spirituality. They represent a personal resurgence of interest in the principles of Modernism, the techniques of Expressionism, and the vernacular pleasures of pen and ink drawing.” 

Matlack received a Master’s Degree in Art Practice from the University of California at Berkeley. He has exhibited widely throughout Colorado and the western states including the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, the Denver Art Museum, The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, the Aspen Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Yellowstone Art Center, the University of California at Davis, the Berkeley Art Center, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. He is the recipient of several awards and grants including the 2000 Dale Djerassi Fellowship, the Neodata Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, and the Boulder Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant.  He has completed several arts residencies, including the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, California, and Shark’s Ink, in Lyons, Colorado. His curatorial experience includes ”Pure Painting” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, which won Westword’s Best of Denver Award. Matlack worked as an artist assistant to Christo and Jeanne-Claude on many of their temporary art projects, including “The Running Fence Project”. Current gallery representation is, Spark Gallery in Denver, Colorado.   Matlack’s work appears in many public and private collections, including the Legislative Services Building, Art in Public Places Program, Denver, Co, City of Boulder, Boulder Public Library, The Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, and the Denver Hyatt Convention Center Hotel.