Exhibition Solo Exhibition · 2006
Hollywood, CA: “Theater of Note”
In their words
These complex, savage, allegorical portraits not only represented but actually contained the entire psychological subtext of the play.
The paintings were an integral part of the content of the production, not just its style. They said more about the Kinsey the man than Kinsey himself ever could.
The minimalist set (adorned with amazing expressionistic paintings by world-renowned artist Matt Sesow) …
Designer Matt Sesow’s posters of bug-eyed, tormented Eagle Scouts aptly reflect the piece’s tone.
Saved web pages and links
Research notes
- The play was Steve Morgan Haskell’s “F**king Wasps,” about the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood; LA Weekly listed the run through November 15, 2003. Haskell commissioned the paintings.
- Sesow’s own records list five big canvases: “Kinsey” (12 × 6 ft), “Gal Wasps” (12 × 6 ft), “Add it Up (with the birds, the bees and bunny),” “Twisted Spine (with gall wasp)” and “Kinsey Crucifixion (with testicular stigmata)” (each 6 × 4 ft).
- Sesow’s 2003 page also cites the Santa Monica Mirror (October 2003). The painting shown in France at the Art Singulier festival a year later, “Kinsey on the Cross, with Testicular Stigmata,” appears to be the play’s “Kinsey Crucifixion.”
- Every source found so far dates the production to autumn 2003, not 2006.
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Hollywood, CA: ‘Theater of Note’.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2006. history.sesow.com/e/2006-hollywood-ca-theater-note-painted.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2006
- Media Artist Talk — Matt Sesow speaks about his art at George Washington University
- Exhibition “Don Giovanni,” Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC
- Press Molly Knight, DC Style Magazine
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Justin Kaufman
- Exhibition “Soul Mining,” Gallery One Eight, Washington, DC
- Milestone Curated and created paintings from DC Street Banners for “Banners from the Fringe”
- Exhibition 24-hour mural painting — Washington, DC Fringe Festival
- Press “Fringe for the Eyes” — Washington Post Going Out Gurus, July 2006
- Press “24 Hours of Color” — Ward 2 News on the Fringe mural, 2006
- Exhibition “Cupidity,” Gallery Neptune, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Outsider Art in the Hamptons
- Exhibition Hurn Museum, Savannah, GA — “The Faces of Folk”
- Press Washington City Paper — “Remastered” Critic’s Pick
- Press Sacramento Bee — Critic’s Pick, Pamela Skinner Gallery Dog and Cat Group Show
- Press MSDC Magazine — “Art of War” article
- Press “The Pain Practitioner” Magazine
- Press “Ideas in Pictures” #5 — two drawings by Matt Sesow
- Press N&O Newspaper — Raleigh
- Press Days of Action, Calls For Peace
- Media Exit Clov CD covers — painting on two CD covers by DC band Exit Clov
- Milestone Paints in Morocco — Essaouira and Marrakech
- Exhibition Merrill-Jennings Galleries, Davidson, NC
- Exhibition “Art of War” — Studio One Eight, March 2006
- Press The Examiner, October 28, 2006 — “a loose collective of non-art-school visionaries”