American Visionary Art Museum - Exhibitions: MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe • Opens Memorial Day Weekend 2016 https://t.co/PsMSSIihEy
Exhibition June 5, 2016
“Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” — AVAM members' opening reception and artist talk
"Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe" — AVAM members' opening reception and artist talk (Sunday, June 5, 2016, 4 PM)
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Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
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)
see my latest work at new.sesow.com
get the UN stamp at stamp.sesow.com
watch the documentary at film.sesow.com
schedule a studio visit at studio.sesow.com
THANK YOU to everybody that turned out for the opening of my exhibition MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe • Members Reception & Artist Talk at the American Visionary Art Museum on Sunday.
If you were there for the talk, you know that it was an overwhelming experience for me. If you couldn't make the opening, the show will be up for one year until June 2017. I plan to be back at the museum on July 23rd/Saturday to talk with visitors, etc...Hope to see you there! I'll post details in the future. thanks! Matt
Matt Sesow one year solo exhibition "Shock and Awe" at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltiomore https://t.co/XhNjr7X58f
some pics from the grand opening of MATT SESOW: Shock and Awe • Members Reception & Artist Talk at AVAM in Baltimore, thanks! #mattsesow #madeindc #thedcarts #sesow #avam:
https://www.pinterest.com/sesow/matt-sesow-solo-exhibit-at-american-visionary-art-/
Where this record comes from
- Mailchimp newsletter May/Jun 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. “‘Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe’ — AVAM members' opening reception and artist talk.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2016. history.sesow.com/e/2016-shock-awe-avam-members-opening.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
- 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