Bio

Mati Rose McDonough is an adult who paints like a child. It has taken her 32 years, 2 schools, and approximately 486 paintings to get to this point.

Mati is inspired by beauty, truth, lies, urban animals perched up in trees, bits of eavesdropped conversation, young imaginations, faded signs, the ocean, patchwork quilts, ornate iron work, ice cream carts and stories of longing. She admires artists Maira Kalman, Beatriz Milhazes, Margaret Kilgallen, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, the Clayton Brothers, Japanese pop artists, Sienese Painters, and Mexican Retablo artists.

She has had numerous shows and has published several illustrations and she hopes that this is just the beginning. Along with her clever and talented husband Hugh D’Andrade she makes messes and daily discoveries in her studio behind her home in San Francisco.

Education

2006
California College of the Arts, Illustration & Painting, San Francisco, CA
1998
Macalester College, Latin American Studies & Fine Art, St. Paul, MN

Select Art Shows

2008
The Enormous Tiny Show III + IV, Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH
Let’s Go, Madrone Lounge, San Francisco, CA
Joint Show with Lisa Congdon, Paper Cuts and Gluesticks Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2007
Where We Overlap, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Girly Show, Deja Design Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Beehive Works, Triptych, San Francisco, CA
Into Yourself, Irwin Center Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005
Monster Girls, The Attic, San Francisco, CA
Mati & Hugh, Triptych, San Francisco, CA
2004
Compound 21 Show, Atlas, San Francisco, CA
2003
Group Show, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Joint Show with Hugh D'Andrade, 66 Balmy Gallery, San Francisco, CA