"If there is one piece of advice I could give young people??? Make good choices...or you end like me. I live in a van down by the river and I ref high school hockey. Which by the way, I'm pretty sucky at it...
#MattFoley #SNL #DearAbby
#DegenerationX
Think of it as a big party. A New Years Eve party!
All the cool are there: Picasso, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Kandinsky, Leger.
It was rumored among the assembled party warriors that Banksy had been there.
In disguise. Of course.
Dali sent his regrets.
His aardvark had the sniffles.
#MattFoley #BeHappy
180,000 years ago, or so, I used the walls of caves as surfaces with which to express elements of what my unfettered mind was filled with.
Modern humans may marvel and puzzle over these creations, but any sort of explanation remains as mysterious and elusive as ever.
Lost in time gone by.
#MattFoley
When you can barely pay your rent, face having your utilities shut off, and are regularly hungry living with a growling stomach, there is little you can afford in the way of luxuries.
Yet, one "luxury" is afforded you.
The ability to indulge yourself in my artistic creations remains free.
#MattFoley
Who’s your favorite?
🔥 Chris Farley
🎤 John Belushi
(Reply with why!)
#snl #snlvintage #nr4ptp #poll #saturdaynighlive #mattfoley #bluesbrothers #joecocker #chippendales #70s #70stv #90s #90stv
"Complex" refers to something that is made up of many interconnected parts, making it a challenge to analyze or understand.
It may also describe a psychological condition involving anxiety or preoccupation with a particular issue.
This is thoughtfully complex, but in what capacity?
#MattFoley #art
youtu.be/1LyqPdZjQTY?... #Halloween #chrisfarley #philhartman #davidspade #snl #nbc #1990s #90sbaby #mattfoley
Every October I draw "famous zombies, " this is my 1st for 2025. This one hurt to draw since I like Farley but I hope he'd appreciate the ridiculousness of this piece.
20x Replay:
youtu.be/GEKCzPweyhA
YT Short:
youtube.com/watch/jht4eX...
#mattfoley #zombie #blueskyart
Everyone knows the internet was made for posting #cat pictures.
It seems furry felines have been a staple for such a long time.
Even days are dedicated to the custom.
Well, now I am posting one.
This is a watercolor I did when I was around 7 years old.
Thanks, mom, for saving it.
#MattFoley #artist
#Art receptions are one of the few opportunities for humans to indulge in a sense of sophistication and glamour.
Dress fine. Sip a bit of wine. Nibble some cheese.
A time to look your best and be your smartest.
Few other events rival one.
Unlike most all else usually free to attend, too.
#MattFoley
"A mysterious maker of visual delights, an alchemical distillery of artistic extremes."
Artist: #MattFoley
Title: "The Shaman's Cloak"
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 36" w x 48" h = 91.44 x 121.92 cm
Enlightenment is seeing a different caliber of reality with bold awareness and a magical intuition.
#MattFoley is an internationally recognized artist with a history of award-winning works across multiple media, sometimes described as a "modern mystic" or "visionary" who translates sensory stimuli into dynamic works, oft well-known for creating vibrant, abstract works of art.
(nice makes me blush)
"I'm seeing some ______________..."
"Well, I think I see a _____________..."
"Huh, it reminds me of an ___________."
Everyone brings their own stories to the encounter.
A different kind of look into the mirror.
The question is always, "What do you really see when you look deep."
#MattFoley #artist
For the upcoming FanX convention taking place in salt lake city. After much thought and consideration, my cosplay lineup is as follows. #mattfoley #PowerRangers #thedreamfinder #FanX
"Eve Wore Red Boots"
#MattFoley : acrylic on canvas - 24" x 36"
(award-winning painting)
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, #Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it?"
― Robert G. Ingersoll: lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought
If it were possible to transform my #art from food for thought into nourishing calories for starving bodies, it is something I would do in a heartbeat.
History well documents the plight of starving artists.
It is a condition we, in the arts, know all too well and have great empathy for.
#MattFoley
The artist, Marcel Duchamp, once said, “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
#MattFoley and his creativity
#Disney Evil Queen 109
#SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs #EvilQueen #LucilleLaVerne #Huntsman #StuartBuchanan #SaturdayNightLive #SNL #MattFoley #ChrisFarley #sock #puppet #sockpuppet #puppeteer #puppetry #socktreatment #yourchildhoodruined #mashup #fyp #fypツ #foryou #lipsync #lipsyncing #lipsyncingsock
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love."
― Mother Teresa
#MattFoley: "Medicine Doll", acrylic on canvas
My medicine
"There are mythic, mysterious aspects in each of us. Faces before our ancestors. Places we've known in dreams but never visited in flesh. The various constructs of which we are made: cells, vessels, organs and sinews. There can be a burning desire to interpret all of this. I have that."
― #MattFoley
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive...An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.”
― Louise Bourgeois: a French-American #artist known for her large-scale #sculpture, installation #art, #paintings and prints.
#MattFoley
We all have thoughts.
Thoughts are mental images, to most.
I've never met anyone who has thoughts in text. A written thought. Maybe some do.
But what do thoughts actually look like?
From the outside.
From an objective perspective.
One of my thoughts on the matter.
What are yours? If any.
#MattFoley
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But now the theory goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose
But were always a rose.
― Robert Frost
Bronze 23"h x 9"w x 8"d
#MattFoley #sculpture
32 years ago, #MattFoley makes his #SNL debut, helping motivating people in life. That includes people who Live in a Van Down by the River!
"Few understand the power of thought. If a man goes into a cave, shuts himself in, and thinks one really great thought and dies, that thought will penetrate the walls of that cave, vibrate through #space and at last permeate the whole human race."
― Vivekananda
Good vibrations. ― #MattFoley #artist
Humanity
The world is oft
quite cold and cruel.
To be too sad
makes one a fool.
For a human heart's
nature's crowning jewel,
and the human mind,
creation's golden rule.
'tis from humble mud we're made
to be the Almighty's tool,
or, perhaps just simply chosen
from a vast genetic pool.
― #MattFoley
Creating a different kind of sacred space using art to do so.
“Never wade through the pretty ripples
of perpetually flowing
rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
and prayed to them,
and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.”
― Hesiod: ancient Greek poet
#MattFoley #artist
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one #eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart: theologian, philosopher, mystic
"For a visual artist, eyes are truly windows of the #soul, so that it may be expressed."
― #MattFoley
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”
― Louise Bourgeois
#MattFoley : "An Artist's Studio View" - mixed media
