Matthew Gosser is a Newark-based artist with professional degrees in both architecture and infrastructure planning. For the past five years he has been an adjunct instructor at New Jersey’s School of Architecture which has allowed him time to persue artistic endeavors such as black and white photography and outdoor sculpture. Over the past several years his artwork has been presented in solo and group exhibits in New Jersey and Florida, as well as in private collections here and abroad.

The outdoor sculptures produced thus far have been extremely abstract, composed of a variety of common materials: wood, plastic and metal. Also characteristic of these sculptures is that a single design has been mass produced, in series of 6 or 12 units, and installed in linear arrangements. This repetition of design unifies and pronounces the paths these sculptures are intended to highlight.

Gosser’s black and white photographs have primarily been an exercise in finding beauty in subject matter not conventionally thought of as beautiful. Abandoned buildings and uprooted forests have consequently yielded abstract compositions of rich texture, dramatic lighting and geometric complexity. The best example of this can be found in a series of photographs taken at ground zero two nights after September 11, 2001.