one of my paintings featured on the NYU school of medicine page: http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/?action=new
Summary
Two harshly drawn figures make up this painting, an adult cradling a baby. Both figures stare out and confront the viewer with round bulging eyes. Their wide red mouths are drawn into grimaces, displaying long rows of teeth. Their bodies are pale, but are outlined roughly in black, and marked by gashes of blue, pink, and red. They stand, highlighted in yellow, against an angry and energetic backdrop of red and orange.
A small black halo sticks out stiffly from the head of the baby, while two sharp black horns protrude from the crown of the adult. The adult’s disproportionately large thick hand presses the baby close to their body. Is this an adult or is it a monster or a devil? The viewer is left to decide. Whoever or whatever the figure is, it holds the baby in a way…
Press June 29, 2016
NYU School of Medicine, Medical Humanities database
NYU School of Medicine, Medical Humanities database — a Sesow mother-and-child painting featured with commentary (June 2016)
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Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
two new sketches, "solidarity" and "group think'... available at smalls.sesow.com
Where this record comes from
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Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “NYU School of Medicine, Medical Humanities database.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2016. history.sesow.com/e/2016-nyu-school-medicine-medical-humanities.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2016
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe,” American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
- Milestone AVAM solo exhibition “Shock and Awe” runs for over a year
- Exhibition “Divide and Conquer / Rise Above,” VSA Colorado / Access Gallery, Denver, CO
- Milestone Four solo exhibitions in a single year
- Press Westword — Denver
- Press Baltimore Style magazine — mention of the upcoming AVAM solo exhibition
- Press “Art in the City,” Capital Community News
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Politicized,” Gallery 1515, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Exhibition “Politicized 2,” Gallery 1515, Vancouver, Canada
- Exhibition Paintings at “Une Vision Singulière,” a gallery in Saint Brieuc, northwest France
- Exhibition Paintings at Tieken Studio and Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ
- Exhibition “Landscapes of the Collector”
- Exhibition Transformer Gallery 13th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
- Milestone AVAM’s SideShow Gift Shop begins carrying original Sesow paintings and “Join Hands” documentary
- Press AP News / AP Travel — feature mention of AVAM solo exhibition
- Press Folk Art Society of America — AVAM exhibition featured
- Press Raw Vision Magazine — feature
- Press BmoreArt — review of “Shock and Awe” solo exhibition at AVAM
- Press Baltimore Magazine — AVAM solo exhibition listed as “must see”
- Press Columbia Daily Tribune — Missouri
- Milestone Open call to DC-area collectors to lend their Sesow paintings to the AVAM show
- Media “Heads and Tails” — Орёл и решка, the Russian/Ukrainian TV travel show
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” — AVAM members' opening reception and artist talk
- Award “Join Hands: The Life and Art of Matt Sesow” wins third place, Best Documentary Feature Film, Down East Flick…
- Press BmoreArt review by DC writer Brendan Smith, “Shock and Awe Hits the American Visionary Art Museum”
- Press Professional Artist magazine
- Media Monthly Saturday gallery talks at AVAM throughout “Shock and Awe”
- Exhibition Group show with Dana Ellyn, AMP: Art Market Provincetown, MA
- Media Artist talk for the Pratt Contemporaries at AVAM’s “Black and White Reveal Party,” Baltimore
- Exhibition “Co_works” — exhibition of collaborative works with Norbert Guthier, G Gallery, Houston, TX
- Exhibition Open house and show with Dana Ellyn, 44 R Street NE, Washington, DC
- Press Brut Force — “The Art of Shock and Awe,” feature on the AVAM exhibition
- Press Library Journal reviews “Join Hands” (2016)
- Press “Photos: Matt Sesow at the American Visionary Art Museum” — City Paper, 2016
- Press City Paper links the Post’s “one-handed artist” feature (2016)
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn