Press 2013
The Boston Globe Gallery Pick: “Defiled,” April 10, 2013
Newspaper listing · exhibition page · April 2013
“DEFILED” — Boston Globe Gallery Pick and exhibition page
The Boston Globe, April 10, 2013; archived on Dana Ellyn’s press archive (danaellyn.com) · original
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"Defiled" features the work of two Washington D.C. based artists, Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow, a couple whose respective works speak the language of the 21st Century American political consciousness fluently, although through vastly differing stylistic approaches. Sesow has been called an “outsider artist,” having been self-taught with no traditional artistic training, while Ellyn received training in the fine arts at George Washington University. The keystone of the exhibition is the Defiled series of collaborative paintings which express their political messages with particular potency through an aesthetic merger of academy and colloquialism.
Harbor Gallery
University of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
April 2013
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DEFILED
Dana Ellyn & Matt Sesow's "DEFILED" exhibit was the 'Gallery Pick of the Week' in The Boston Globe on April 10, 2013.
Harbor Gallery
Installing the show
Harbor Gallery
postcard
Postcard & sign in book
Harbor Gallery
Paintings by Ellyn & Sesow
Paintings by Sesow & Ellyn
Kevin Benivsy and Dana Ellyn
Dana Ellyn with her etchings
Matt Sesow with his painting
Sesow & Ellyn
Paintings by Sesow & Ellyn
© Dana Ellyn 2013
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- danaellyn.com/media/2013/defiled/ (clipping)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “The Boston Globe Gallery Pick: ‘Defiled,’ April 10, 2013.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2013. history.sesow.com/e/2013-boston-globe-gallery-pick-defiled.html. Accessed [date].
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