About the Artist by Subverterus DVM sent me the following personal history he'd written.  It hung on the wall at his August-September 2002 art show, Big Old Paintings & Small New Drawings, at the vintage culture store Backward on Forward, in Pittsburgh.
	ABOUT THE ARTIST
	DAVID V. MATTHEWS was born November 12, 1965, in Sewickley, PA, but has never lived there.  He has liked creating art for most of his life, having no interest in sports or the stock market and needing some way to gain social acceptance from peers and adults. When he was 3 1/2 in 1969, he created his earliest surviving art: pencil drawings of two alluring models from a TV commercial for hair dye.  The models look like noseless, hydrocephalic daddy-longlegs.  Since then, his art has improved slightly. In 1983, he attended the PA Governor's School for the Arts, a prestigious state-run program where selected high-school students hone their skills in the creative arts--drawing, in his case. In 1988, he graduated from Edinboro University of PA with a bachelor of fine arts degree in something called studio/applied arts, major in painting. He has had five art shows in Pittsburgh since 1993, including this one.  His art has appeared in the Pittsburgh City Paper.  His writings have appeared in the Pittsburgh City Paper and on the local literary website Inkburns (www.inkburns.com).  Since 2001, he has maintained his own website of artistic, political, and cultural matters, Pixel Stupor (www.oocities.org/dvm65). He is not related to Dave Matthews, the South African alt-rocker popular among coffeehouse patrons everywhere. HOME