Santa Barbara: The Squire Foundation update! The Squire Foundation hosted the resident artists today with the showing of documentary films and artist talks. THANK YOU to everybody that attended and watched Join Hands: The Life and Art of Matt Sesow. thanks! and see you all thursday in santa barbara for live painting! or, if you want to experience 'drink and draw'... join me this tuesday at 11am at The Nugget Bar and Grill, Goleta
Press 2017
Santa Barbara Independent — review of Drink & Draw live painting event
Santa Barbara Independent — review of Drink & Draw live painting event
Pictures · click to enlarge
Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
my studio in Santa Barbara California at The Squire Foundation
“Drink and Draw” in Santa Barbara California. My solo opens here tomorrow in “the zone” at Silo118. 5-8pm. Post drinks at Figueroa Mountain Brewing - Santa Barbara
“SESOW IN THE ZONE”. Doing a little drink and draw after helping to hang my solo at Silo Gallery118. Join me at the opening reception FRIDAY 5-8pm. Post show drinks at Figueroa. Silo118. Figueroa Mountain Brewing - Santa Barbara. The Squire Foundation
I JUST FINISHED my last paintings/drawings here at my artist residency in santa barbara, ca. . +3weeks. i don't know the final totals yet on 'number of paintings done'... anyways, here are some of the drink and draw work i have available at http://smalls.sesow.com feel free to let me know if you want one! thanks, matt
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
- Matt Sesow’s Facebook posts (artist’s own export), matched to this entry by name and date
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Santa Barbara Independent — review of Drink & Draw live painting event.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2017. history.sesow.com/e/2017-santa-barbara-independent-review-drink.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2017
- Milestone American Visionary Art Museum selects 26 Sesow paintings for its permanent collection
- 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 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