A fun day with Dana Ellyn viewing the parade at the National Cherry Blossom Festival here in DC. come hang out with us tomorrow in Baltimore at the American Visionary Art Museum noon until 3pm: thanks! Matt Sesow
Milestone 2017
American Visionary Art Museum selects 26 Sesow paintings for its permanent collection
American Visionary Art Museum selects 26 Sesow paintings for its permanent collection. At the members' closing party for "Shock and Awe" (May 25, 2017) 23 works had been chosen; by July 2017 the count stood at 26, including a portrait of Muhammad Ali that AVAM welcomed as one more Baltimore tie to the champ
Pictures · click to enlarge
Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
Only a few more weeks to see my solo exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum... I'll be making available some of the paintings from the show after I get the work back in June. Here is a website with all the paintings... .Please feel free to contact me if you want to be on waiting list to acquire any of them. thanks! Matt Sesow http://www.sesow.com/avam/shock-and-awe-20162017/
More information on the closing party/reception for my solo show at the American Visionary Art Museum:
http://avam.org/exhibitions/matt-sesow-shock-and-awe-closing-reception.shtml
Only a few more weeks to see my solo exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum... I'll be making available some of the paintings from the show after I get the work back in June. Here is a website with all the paintings... .Please feel free to contact me if you want to be on waiting list to acquire any of them. thanks! Matt Sesow
http://www.sesow.com/avam/shock-and-awe-20162017/
just a few more days to see my solo at the American Visionary Art Museum
http://www.avam.org/exhibitions/matt-sesow-shock-and-awe.shtml
awesome, my painting in today's Washington, Post... for my show opening today at American Visionary Art Museum:
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
- Mailchimp newsletter Jun & Oct 2017
- Facebook (Matt Sesow posts/events export)
- Matt, 2026-10-03
- Matt Sesow’s Facebook posts (artist’s own export), matched to this entry by name and date
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “American Visionary Art Museum selects 26 Sesow paintings for its permanent collection.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2017. history.sesow.com/e/2017-american-visionary-art-museum-selects.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2017
- Exhibition Galerie Une Vision Singulière, Lamballe, France
- Exhibition Matt Sesow paintings shown alongside Meaghan Busch’s “Scratching the Surface”
- Exhibition “Sesow in the Zone,” Silo118 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
- Milestone Painted 100 small works in a single day while preparing for the Santa Barbara solo
- Press Santa Barbara Magazine — writeup of the Silo118 solo exhibition and Squire Foundation residency
- Press Noozhawk.com — article previewing the Silo118 solo exhibition
- Milestone Sesow’s own year-end assessment: “2017 was my best year yet with art sales and shows, new studio, museum solo…
- Milestone Three-week artist residency with The Squire Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
- Exhibition Paintings at Sideshow at AVAM gift shop
- Media Slovenian TV — Channel 1 documentary featuring Galerija Trebnje and interview with Sesow
- Press Santa Barbara Independent — review of Drink & Draw live painting event
- Press Featured in German book about the Pied Piper
- Press AVAM “Museum Gift Swap” — painting gifted to Phillips Museum
- Press Bologna, Italy — continued catalog inclusion and museum representation
- Exhibition “Art and the City,” Hill Center Galleries, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “Freedom Square” painting created for the architect of the monument at Freedom Square in Tehran, Iran
- Milestone Launched Patreon patron program
- Exhibition “Hair of the Dog,” Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery, Sanford, FL
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Politicized 2 — Inauguration Day Open House,” The Pub & The People, Washington, DC
- Press David J. Smith — “Baltimore’s Unofficial Museum of Social Justice: AVAM,” with a mention of “Shock and Awe”
- Milestone Studio move — leaves the Adams Morgan apartment studio
- Exhibition “Co_works” with Norbert Guthier, at the studio of Edouard Duval-Carrié, Miami, FL
- Exhibition “80 Years — Guernica Revisited,” VSA Colorado / Access Gallery, Denver, CO
- Media Artist visit and talk at AVAM
- Press Artborne Magazine — “Hair of the Dog: New Works by Matt Sesow”
- Exhibition “Déjà Vu,” Hill Center Galleries, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
- Media “Join Hands” added to the Los Angeles Public Library collection
- Exhibition “Shock and Awe” members-only closing reception, American Visionary Art Museum
- Press Cape Gazette — Delaware
- Milestone Paintings returned from the AVAM show are offered to collectors through a waiting list at avam.sesow.com…
- Exhibition “Outsider or Insider Art,” Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
- Exhibition Summer group show, Gallery 1515, Vancouver, BC
- Exhibition Monthly open studios with Dana Ellyn at 916 G Street NW #304
- Exhibition “Stepping into the Unknown,” group show on political anxiety, Silo118, Santa Barbara, CA
- Milestone AVAM puts its newly acquired Sesow paintings
- Media The Squire Foundation screens “Join Hands” with artist talks by its resident artists, Santa Barbara
- Media Live painting, “A Window to the Arts” pop-up studio, 927 State Street, Santa Barbara
- Exhibition Transformer annual Silent Auction & Benefit, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn