Parker Jordan is proud to present Matt Rinard.

Matt Rinard’s work is famous for ironic, surprising and just a little off-kilter humor. His paintings and prints are also prized for their bold composition and vibrant colors, but it is the artist’s quirky sense of humor and his subject matter that have won him
a devoted following around the world.

The subjects of Rinard’s most recognizable works are intentionally funny, often revolving around the imagined antics and comic antagonisms of household pets when no humans are watching. Dogs and cats appear in an imaginative array of comical situations. The antics of his own three dogs are a source of inspiration for Rinard, but sometimes the process seems to work in reverse. “Lucy was a good puppy,”
Matt says of his miniature schnauzer, “but when she turned one, she became the Antichrist and started slowly destroying our house. That was kind of ironic, since I had done a piece called Welcome Home, in which a guy comes home to find that his dog and cat have destroyed the placed. I guess you could say it was a case of life imitating art.”

“I like to take a whimsical and comical approach to art,” he says. “You see galleries where everything is so sterile and there’s classical music playing and everybody’s whispering, and it intimidates people. I think a lot of people take it all too seriously, like once you’ve introduced humor into art, you’ve desecrated it or something.”