these two paintings I created during my first month-long residency in Costa Rica (2003) are up for auction as part of the Slotin Folk Art Auction November 10th. They are both framed. There are only a few bids so far and you can do it online here: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/search/?keyword=sesow&sort=-relevance&status=online&fbclid=IwAR1fFlBFN6KtFvdM9D-Q_8TcxLVvuQyIhx7EQySU_BPYr7BfAqW9bBFeKSU
Exhibition 2019
Paintings at Slotin Folk Art Auction
Paintings at Slotin Folk Art Auction (two Costa Rica residency paintings from 2003)
Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
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. “Paintings at Slotin Folk Art Auction.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2019. history.sesow.com/e/2019-paintings-slotin-folk-art-auction.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2019
- Exhibition “No! Hate,” Center for Contemporary Political Art
- Exhibition Transformer Gallery 16th Annual Auction, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Media Documentary “Join Hands” available for streaming and distribution
- Milestone Career sales surpass 12,000 original paintings
- Press Ken Bromley Art Supplies — UK
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn
- Media Film screened at Outsider Art Fair, New York City
- Media PBS / Nebraska Stories — Season 12
- Media Talk at the Center for Contemporary Political Art
- Media CreativeMornings/DC — “Give You Goosebumps,” a 30-minute talk on the story of his art, inspiration and…
- Milestone Docents from the American Visionary Art Museum visit Matt’s downtown Washington, DC studio
- Press Making It! blog — Turner Houston
- Milestone early.sesow.com launched — June 2019
- Exhibition Collaboration with Madrid fashion designer Maya Hansen
- Milestone First live-streamed painting sessions on YouTube
- Exhibition Open studio, 916 G Street NW
- Media “Beating the Odds” — AOL
- Press Brightest Young Things — “Inside the Artist’s Studio: Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn”
- Press Art Breakout — “Self-Taught Washington DC-Based Artist Matt Sesow at the American Visionary Art Museum”