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Press 2015

Washington Post — “The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world,” extensive…

Washington Post — "The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world," extensive biographical feature by Debra Bruno previewing "Shock and Awe" (January 2, 2016). Includes guardian angel ICU story, painting origin, prosthetic hand story, and Hoffberger quote praising his extraordinary sense of color

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Washington Post — “The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world,” extensive…, 2015: photograph 1 (Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, December 19, 2015)
Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, December 19, 2015
Washington Post — “The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world,” extensive…, 2015: photograph 2 (Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, December 19, 2015)
Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, December 19, 2015
Washington Post — “The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world,” extensive…, 2015: photograph 3 (Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, December 19, 2015)
Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, December 19, 2015
Washington Post — “The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world,” extensive…, 2015: photograph 4 (Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, March 9, 2016)
Posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, March 9, 2016

Matt at the time · his Facebook posts

Spent a good part of the day yesterday measuring space at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore for my solo exhibition "Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe" that opens Spring 2016.

The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world https://t.co/kFJYVJKlt3

The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.'s art world - https://t.co/oreNYgbrp2

American Visionary Art Museum - Exhibitions: MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe • Opens Memorial Day Weekend 2016 https://t.co/PsMSSIihEy

HERE IT IS! The Press Release for my upcoming solo exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum. The opening reception on June 5th is for AVAM members, so PLEASE become a member and I hope to see you at the opening!! http://avam.org/news-and-events/events/matt-sesow-opening.shtml

AVAM is thrilled to announce an all-new original art exhibition, MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe. Washington, D.C.-based self-taught artist Matt Sesow's "raw, visceral, good to the bone" paintings will be displayed in the museum's third floor gallery of its Zanvyl A. Krieger Main Building beginning Memorial Day Weekend 2016 (Friday, May 27, 2016) and remain on view thru June 4, 2017. Among the original 150 plus works on display, visitors will witness Sesow's salute to the first 100 American soldiers killed in the Iraq War, his fantastical depictions of animals and birds, personalized tributes to great…

"Guardian Angel" by Matt Sesow
5 feet x 3 feet on canvas
part of the solo exhibition MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe • Members Reception & Artist Talk at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. May 2016 - June 2017

Here's what I have coming up in 2016/2017:
May2016-June2017: Solo at American Visionary Art Museum (MD)
June 2016: Exhibit at Marx Cafe (Washington DC)
Aug 2016: Solo at VSA Colorado Access Gallery (Denver)
Sep 2016: Exhibition at AMP: Art Market Provincetown (MA)
Oct 2016: Solo at Vancouver Art Gallery, (Canada)
May 2017: Solo at Jeanine Taylor Folk Art (Florida)

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Where this record comes from

Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Washington Post — ‘The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world,’ extensive….” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2015. history.sesow.com/e/2015-washington-post-saga-how-one.html. Accessed [date].

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