"on this day"...
Milestone February 8, 2016
Open call to DC-area collectors to lend their Sesow paintings to the AVAM show
Open call to DC-area collectors to lend their Sesow paintings to the AVAM show (February 2016) — owners brought works to his Adams Morgan studio, where the museum made its selections; most loans stayed up until the show closed in 2017
Pictures · click to enlarge
Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
THANK YOU to everybody that visited my studio today in Adams Morgan. Glad so many people took home some paintings. thanks! Matt
Awesome time today with the Russian/Ukrainian TV Travel show "Heads and Tails" (Орел и Решка. Шопинг). A great group of people. It will reach viewers in Russia and Ukraine. should have some shots of me painting and a "Drink and Draw" session at Mellow Mushroom Adams Morgan for 11am beers! :)
the view from my adams morgan DC studio last night....
Where this record comes from
- Mailchimp newsletter early 2016
- Facebook (Matt Sesow posts/events export)
- Matt Sesow’s Facebook posts (artist’s own export), matched to this entry by name and date
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Open call to DC-area collectors to lend their Sesow paintings to the AVAM show.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2016. history.sesow.com/e/2016-open-call-dc-area-collectors.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
- 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 NYU School of Medicine, Medical Humanities database
- 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