Matt Carrano’s work is grounded in an ongoing dialogue between structure and intuition. The son of a portrait artist, he began drawing and traveling to art shows with his father as a child. Later, he moved through roles as an engineer, designer, and educator, while simultaneously cultivating a studio practice.
Matt draws inspiration from the coastal landscape, exploring motifs where abstraction and memory meet. Through land, sea, and light, he reflects on the connection to nature and how time unfolds through changing seasons. His paintings and drawings are almost meditations on perception and the way memory paints its own terrain.
As the founder and former president of Somerville Open Studios, Matt has also been committed to fostering spaces where artists and audiences can connect through shared curiosity and exchange. Whether through making, teaching, or collaborating, he remains fascinated by the dialogue between order and expression, and inspired by the moments where science and art find common ground. He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from Syracuse University and a Masters in Technology Strategy from Boston University.