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Matthew Braunginn Presents:

HIGGS

Oil & Acrylic Abstract Work • Sitting Between My External and Internal World • Infused With Music

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Selected Work

My work explores the meeting point between my internal world and the external world, navigating chronic illness, interpersonal relationships, rising fascism, and an infinite number of experiences. Becoming a presentation and reflection of the context in which their creation exists, forcing the world and those observing my work to see the world, the context in which they exist, including both the good and the bad. Each piece is created with music woven into its DNA and infused with the emotionally expressive weight of my subjective interactions and observations of our shared existence. 

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Dvořák Symphony number 10 in LSD Minor

40x40" Oil on Canvas

“Dvořák Symphony number 10 in LSD Minor,” 40×40”, oil on canvas, 2025. Created within a sustained soundscape of Dvořák’s symphonic work, following the melodies of strings and horns into an almost psychedelic dreamscape, filled with eerie liminal spaces you feel like you can dive into. This was an early experiment with oil, and a break from the more hard-edge geometric works of many of my acrylic pieces. An exploration of space and flow. Available.

City of Hearts

2026 Jackson Art Prize Long List

22x30" Oil on Oil Paper

"City of Hearts," 22x30, oil on oil paper, 2026. This work is an expansion of style and composition, a continuation of the exploration of flowing gemotray and liminal spaces, while incorporating more explicit "lived" elements. It is an expression of the fulfilling nature of love and connection, as long as you also give it space to flow, expand, and exist on its own terms. It was composed to a playlist of soulful, divinely inspired Jazz, including Alice Coltrane, Brandee Younger, Kamasi Washington, and John Coltrane.

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Dilla Made Sade Some Eggs

36x48" Acrylic on Wood

"Dilla Made Sade Some Eggs," 36x48", acrylic on wood, 2024. Part of my ongoing "Dilla Series," this piece is a pivotal example of my hard-edge geographic acrylic pieces. The "Dilla Series" is a collection of paintings inspired by the late Hip-Hop producer J. Dilla. They're made not just to his soulful produced sounds, but to the Soul, R&B, Funk, and Jazz artists that inspired him, and inspired other Hip-Hop producers like MF. Doom and Pete Rock. With the twisting shapes and hard edges representing beat breaks, looped samples, and the spaces between. A celebration of Black American musical traditions. 

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