About the Artist

Matthew Malkowski

Matthew Malkowski is a mixed media artist whose work explores the internal structures that shape thought, memory, and identity. Drawing directly from lived experience with obsessive‑compulsive disorder, anxiety, art becomes a way to make visible what is often carried internally. Through drawing, painting, and constructed forms, layered imagery reflects repetition, fragmentation, and adaptation. Creating offers a language for experiences that resist straightforward explanation, giving space for reflection and clarity. Each piece emerges through focus and patience, allowing personal experience to take physical form. Matthew’s work invites viewers to consider the complexity of the mind with empathy, emphasizing that creative expression can be both revealing and grounding.

Location: On display at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute