A nice article and press release about my upcoming painting adventure with the The Squire Foundation in Santa Barbara California next month as well as the solo exhibition at Silo118 gallery. also a showing of Join Hands: The Life and Art of Matt Sesow. stay tuned for TONS on new work and LARGE paintings.
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Exhibition Solo Exhibition · 2017
“Sesow in the Zone,” Silo118 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Solo Exhibition — "Sesow in the Zone," Silo118 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA — opened November 10, 2017 in the Funk Zone; 200+ paintings created during the preceding three-week Squire Foundation residency; Silo118 selected 100+ paintings for the show, which opened during the Funk Zone Art Walk
Pictures · click to enlarge
Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
Momma Cat at The Squire Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA is done being my muse today...
The gallery Silo118 in Santa Barbara just selected over 100 paintings to be in my show "Sesow in the zone". It's going to be a great opening on Friday in the Funk Zone Santa Barbara. #funkzone #santabarbara #sbart
https://www.edhat.com/event/opening-reception-sesow-in-the-zone
Good morning Santa Barbara! hope to see you all at my show opening tomorrow in Funk Zone Santa Barbara as part of the Funk Zone Art Walk 5-8pm at Silo118 and SPECIAL thanks to The Squire Foundation!
“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
Here's a 2 minute video showing the 200+ paintings I created while at my 3 week residency at The Squire Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. Many of the paintings are on display at the solo exhibition "Sesow in the Zone" at Silo118 gallery also in Santa Barbara, California
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
- 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. “‘Sesow in the Zone,’ Silo118 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2017. history.sesow.com/e/2017-zone-silo118-gallery-santa-barbara.html. Accessed [date].
Were you there? Do you have a photo, a clipping or a memory of this? Please write to sesow@sesow.com or use Ask Matt a question, and it will be added here.
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”
- 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