Starting Saturday: TWO of my paintings will be up for sale at the Bockley gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota as part of this special exhibition. (more info below). Contact the gallery to purchase... gallery website: https://bockleygallery.com/
For Jim With Love: Collection of a Storyteller is an exhibition and fundraising event featuring selections from the Jim Denomie Collection, from July 26 to August 2, 2025.
In collaboration with the Jim Denomie Estate and the Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, Bockley Gallery is pleased to celebrate and share Jim’s collection with the public. Throughout Jim’s life, he purchased, traded and was gifted hundreds of artworks from friends, colleagues, relatives, mentors, students, and strangers near and far. At Jim’s request, nearly all his collection will be exhibited, and a large selection will be for sale to benefit his namesake scholarship for…
Exhibition July 26, 2025
“For Jim with Love: Collection of a Storyteller,” Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"For Jim with Love: Collection of a Storyteller," Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (July 26 – August 2, 2025) — works from the collection of the late painter Jim Denomie, sold to benefit the Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship; two Sesow paintings shown alongside Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Rick Bartow, George Morrison and Wendy Red Star
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Matt at the time · his Facebook posts
Where this record comes from
- Facebook (Matt Sesow posts/events export)
- bockleygallery.com (handoff §6 #2)
- Matt Sesow’s Facebook posts (artist’s own export), matched to this entry by name and date
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “‘For Jim with Love: Collection of a Storyteller,’ Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2025. history.sesow.com/e/2025-jim-love-collection-storyteller-bockley.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2025
- Exhibition Paintings at Chamazinha Gallery, Figueira da Foz, Portugal
- Exhibition Talk at the American Visionary Art Museum’s 30th anniversary celebration, Baltimore
- Exhibition Paintings at Sideshow at AVAM
- Press AATONAU Magazine — “Matt Sesow: Turning Trauma into Artistic Triumph”
- Press ArtDaily — feature article
- Press Mid Atlantic Review — continued feature
- Milestone Listed on Artsy, MutualArt, ArtMajeur, and Washington Color Gallery
- Exhibition Featured artist in “William & Mary Collects III,” the inaugural special exhibition of the newly expanded…
- Press Italian book of short stories and poems featuring Sesow paintings as cover art and illustrations
- Milestone ArtLifting representation — March 2025
- Exhibition Live painting and studio talk for the Working Artists Forum, Easton, MD, by video link
- Milestone “31 Days in July” returns — Matt and Dana Ellyn restart the project as daily collaborative paintings…
- Exhibition Two-Person Exhibition — with Dana Ellyn
- Exhibition Donated a sunflower painting to the benefit auction for Christ House, which provides healthcare for DC’s…
- Press Hippocratic Collective — “Matt Sesow’s Choice: Life and Art After Amputation”
- Milestone More than 2,000 art postcards mailed to Patreon supporters, 2018–2025
- Exhibition Transformer annual auction, The LINE DC, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC
- Press Book — Hugo Izzara, “Candy for the Ducks,” featuring paintings by Sesow
- Milestone midlibrary.io catalogs “Matt Sesow” as a named Midjourney style
- Press Cleveland Scene — “On View” listing
- Press Neun Magazine — interview