HUGE happy news :) I will be doing an art residency in Santa Barbara, California with the The Squire Foundation later this year followed by a solo exhibition at the Silo118 gallery (November 2017).
Exhibition August 9, 2017
“Stepping into the Unknown,” group show on political anxiety, Silo118, Santa Barbara, CA
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Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
HUGE happy news :) I will be doing an art residency in Santa Barbara, California with The Squire Foundation later this year followed by a solo exhibition at the Silo118 gallery (November 2017).
"Border Crossing"
15" x 20" acrylic/oil on watercolor board
available via Silo118 gallery in Santa Barbara, California
"Border Crossing"
15" x 20" acrylic/oil on watercolor board
available via Silo118 gallery in Santa Barbara, California
My painting 'border crossing' will be in the next show at Silo118 gallery in Santa Barbara, California!
One of my paintings featured in an article about a Santa Barbara show I am in: http://www.independent.com/news/2017/aug/09/stepping-unknown-explores-political-anxiety/
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Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “‘Stepping into the Unknown,’ group show on political anxiety, Silo118, Santa Barbara, CA.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2017. history.sesow.com/e/2017-stepping-into-unknown-political-anxiety.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 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
- 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