Matt Snee

@mattsnee.bsky.social

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I am a neurodivergent writer, painter, and photographer living in Phoenix, AZ. I like to read, listen to jazz and classical, and play JRPGs. https://sneemart.com/

Cover for ebook, "The Plan is Death: The Many Lives of Alice Sheldon," a novella by Matt Snee. Text is purple and blue, and author name is in orange. The image is a red woman clutching herself in sorrow.
Photo shows paperback copy of Penguin Classic "Right By My Side," by David Haynes. Cover has a a black and white illustration of a young black man with a yellow scarf.
Acrylic painting showing a green horse with orange eyes being impaled by a pole. A detail from Picasso's "Guernica."
Photo shows cover of Ernest Hemingway’s “Sun Also Rises,” showing illustrated people in a crowd at a bullfight.
Photo shows paperback copy of Adania Shibli’s novel, “Minor Detail.” Cover shows a grainy photo of a woman’s face and a landscape in Palestine.
Cover of Matt Snee's novella, "Lost Rainbow," showing a rainbow colored abstract painting that is highly saturated.
Photo shows paperback copy of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Selected Poems,” edit by Alexander Coleman. Cover is divided into a red and gray halves.
Paperback copy of “Braiding Sweetgrass,” a nonfiction book by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Cover is cream-colored with braid of sweetgrass.
Photo shows paperback copy of Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other,” a novel. The cover is blue., yellow, green, and pink, and shows a medley of patterns and photos of Black women.
Paperback copy of “Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World,” by Eric Metaxas. Cover shows painting of bust of Martin Luther.
Photo shows paperback of Anton Chekhov’s “Plays.” Cover shows women sitting at a table with books open on their laps.
Photo shows a paperback copy of Matt Snee's and Gregg Chirlin's "Cardboard Spaceship: A Speculation." Cover shows the gray eye of a green monster.
Photo shows paperback copy of Gustave Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man,” translated by Raymod N. MacKenzie.
Pastel and acrylic painting on paper of red helicopters bombing Philadelphia. A young Black boy weeps below.
Pastel and acrylic painting on paper of Joyce Carol Oates wearing a purple gown sitting on a hill beneath a blue sky looking at the viewer with pity and wisdom. A manuscript floats in the sky.
Image shows cover of book "Cardboard Spaceship," by Matt Snee and Gregg Chirlin. We see a purple eye of a monstrous green creature.
Paperback copy of Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” showing a cover with an orange desert at night.
Photo shows paperback copy of "The Dehumanization of Art, And Other Essays On Art, Culture, and Literature," by Jose Ortega Y Gasset. Cover is a grayish abstract painting.
Photo shows paperback copy of “The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean,” translated with commentary by Flora R. Levin. Cover is dark red with a golden figure of a musical chart.
Painting shows a young boy with brown hair and a gray shirt raising his hand in triumph as he rides a pink luck dragon across the blue sky.
Photo shows paperback copy of the Norton Critical Edition of "The Bhagavad Gita," translated by Gavin Flood and Charles Martin. Cover shows a chariot on the cover.
Pastel and acrylic painting on canvas of blue-eyed, blond man with beard and dark eyebrows. Painting is closely cropped.
Photo shows paperback copy of Matt Snee's short story collection, "Love in the Time of America," showing a still life painting of a purple fish and other animals on an orange tablecloth.
Photo shows hardback copy of “MoMA Now: Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art.” Cover shows details of vibrant abstract painting.
Photo shows paperback copy of “A Concise History of Western Music,” by Paul Griffiths. Cover shows angels playing baroque instruments.
Expressionist pastel and brush pen sketch of Stanley Kubrick as a young man, showing a dark-eyed, dark haired man wearing a green suit with a blue shirt. The background is orange and blue.
Photo shows hardback copy of "Around the Circle," an art book by Vasily Kandinsky. Cover shows a variety of colorful, organic shapes with abstract patterns painted on them.
Photo shows paperback copy of “Non-Stop,” by Brian Aldiss. Cover shows a primitive man in rags standing amidst overgrown vegetation in a starship corridor.
Photo shows paperback copy of Charles Burns’ graphic novel “Black Hole,” showing a black and image of a dark haired teen with the title obscuring his eyes.
photo shows hardcover copy of “Great Art Explained,” by James Payne (as seen on Youtube). Cover is yellow, with a circle of paintings with Frida Kahlo at the center.
Photo shows paperback copy of “Melville: His World and Work,” by Andrew Delbanco.
Photo shows hardback copy of “The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake,” edited by David V. Erdman, with a new foreword and commentary by Harold Bloom. Cover is white with one of Blake’s paintings on it.
Photo shows hardcover copy of Kate Beaton’s graphic novel, “Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands.” The cover shows a black and white illustration of a young woman in a hardhat climbing the steps of a gigantic truck.
Photo shows paperback copy of graphic novel “It’s Lonely At the Centre Of The Earth: An auto-bio-graphic-novel,” by Zoe Thorogood. Cover shows a young woman with dark hair dancing in a kitchen filled with trash.
Pastel and acrylic painting of old, bearded man on a drippy, nuclear yellow background. HE is outlined in lavender, and wears a dark suit.
Pastel and acrylic abstract landscape in muted pastels, inspired by Helen Frankenthaler's "Mountain and Sea."
Photo shows paperback copy of Matt Snee’s “Love in the Time of America,” a collection of short stories. Cover shows blue, green, and white text over and orange, purple, black and green still life of a fish waiting to be cooked.
Photo shows hardcover edition of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel “Monica,” showing a blue woman with her hair up gazing off into the distance underneath a psychedelic starscape.
Photo shows hardcover copy of Alice Neel’s “People Come First,” showing a dark woman in a bright white top staring at the viewer with crystal blue eyes.
Photo shows paperback copy of “Melville: His World and Work,” by Andrew Delbanco, with a photograph of the long-bearded Melville on a brown, orange, beige, and blue cover.
Photo shows paperback copy of manga “Buddha: Volume One: Kapilavastu,” by Osamu Tezuka, showing an old bearded man raising a dead rabbit into the sky.
Color photo shows an oleander seed pod coming forth towards the viewer amidst shadows and leaves.
Black and white, square format photo shows a cluster of lemon tree leaves in aq variety of unique shapes and shadows.
Pastel and acrylic painting on canvas of Yoko Ono with green skin and orange eyes and short hair having her clothing cut off by a faceless gray man. The background is purple.
Photo shows yellow, hardcover Penguin Dropcaps edition of Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.” A book sticks out at the top.
Photo shows a Criterion Collection Bluray case of David Lynch's "Inland Empire: A Woman In Trouble," with black case with white text.
Pastel and acrylic painting shows portrait of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette. He wear a blue suit. The background is orange with a green moon.
Color photo shows a rolling cascade of pink and orange bougainvillea plants, like a curling ocean wave.
Cover design for Matt Snee's "Love in the Time of America." Front cover shows a still life of a fish, a snake, and a pot on an orange tablecloth. The back cover is a blank orange, textured painting with this text: "Who ever told you there is no such thing as real, true love? Two teen boys infatuated with science fiction fall in love with each other at a summer camp in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Hollywood superstar cowboy John Wayne kidnaps a Black infant he discovers in a dumpster. The daughter of a rightwing talkshow host is suddenly, woefully unwed and pregnant. And a young American man finds the woman of his dreams in a near-future Tokyo that's floating on balloons above the rising seas... In these four stories and another, Americans from varying backgrounds and in different time periods all find themselves at the mercy of their need for love. But despite the paradisiacal promise of American liberty, each one of them finds that everything has a price..."
Tall acrylic and pastel painting on paper shows a gray-haired orange man tilting his neck up to kiss a spectral green woman with enveloping pink hair,
Potential cover of Matt Snee's "Love In The Time Of America," showing a orangish still life showing fish and a snake.
Paperback copy of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s “From Hell,” graphic novel, showing a British man in a suit with white hair holding a bloody knife.
Color photo shows two pale wooden clothespin hanging on a vinyl clothesline, with a palm tree and blue sky in the background.
Pastel and acrylic painting shows green woman with blue hair braided around her head. She has purple eyes and wears golden glasses. The background is salmon colored.
Color photo shows cluster of pink and white bougainvillea flowers in a wide circle.
Color photo shows a cluster of sharp, jagged agave plants in morning shadows.
Colorful photo shows cluster of small cacti next to a wall surrounded by discarded pink bougainvillea leaves.
Black and white, square format photo shows three giant palm fronds hanging down with their leaves akimbo.
Black and white, square format photo shows a pink oleander flower shadowed in dawn light.