M AT T H E W LANGLEY
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MATTHEW LANGLEY RECENT SMALL WORKS
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MATTHEW LANGLEY ARTIST STATEMENT The exploration of color has over time become a primary focus of my work. This approach to color is instinctual, leaning heavily on my acquired knowledge as opposed to strict adherence to color theory. The outcome of the work carries with it a transparency of the process of its creation. I want the viewer to see the decisions made as well as to see the final artwork. The work is not pre-planned; almost all of it is improvisation. This improvisation is handled the way that a musician might work; that is, the experimentation is handled inside of the structure of the overall work, playing off initial ideas and extrapolating new ideas that emerge during the work. This gives way to new ideas in developing future work. It also illustrates my decision-making process in making new artworks. The resulting body of work consists of multiple markers that observe, comment and reflect the decisions I’ve made in the studio. Paintings That Live In The World I have always been drawn towards creative approaches that generate a friction between actions performed as an artist and the visual frameworks that create the artwork. Between these concerns it is critical for the artworks I produce to be able to stand alone without an exhaustive document or map telling the viewer what it is that they are seeing or how they should see it. In the winter of 2014, I gave myself “a snow day.” I took a break from my then current work, which was very structured, and allowed myself a chance to explore anything that popped into my head. Over the course of a week, I developed an avalanche of work that was received far beyond my modest expectations. In what I initially started as a way to expand how I had been building images, I found a new body of work that has energized my studio. My focus on approaching this work is with openness, eagerness, and a lack of preconception of the final outcome. I have found new ways of working and discovered qualities about my work that were unknown to me. In this latest work I have become far more sensitive to the idea of balance. Visual concerns such as color and process, mark making and field, scale and relationship, planning and improvisation, allow me to develop artworks that interest me intellectually as well as visually. The resulting body of work consists of markers that observe, comment and gauge the decisions made. On Names Titles have become critical to my work. Primarily they re-establish a connection to the visible world and hopefully trigger a series of associations and ideas that are related between the artwork and the connotation in the viewers awareness. I avoid the descriptive and ordered approach (blue, or number 12, etc.) as well as using “untitled.” I view titles as an approach to open the viewer to a thought process that may influence the subject at hand. This could be viewed as shorthanded poetry or a similar device that allows further thought about or in connection to the artworks.
Opposite Page The Ocean Storm, 2022 (p. 14 - 15) 4
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Vertical Horizon, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 6
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Deep Forest , 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 8
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At Lakes Edge, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 10
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Rain, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 12
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The Ocean Storm, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 14
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A Push, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 16
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Medici, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 18
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Sweep, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 20
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Lush, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 22
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Summer Taste, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 24
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Push, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 26
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Strawberry Shortcake, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 28
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Apres Sun, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 30
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Hombre, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 32
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Summer Glow, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 34
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Late In The Day , 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 36
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Pulse, 2022 Acrylic on museum board 13 x 17 inches $600 framed 38
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MATTHEW LANGLEY Abbreviated CV
EDUCATION 1985 BFA, Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC 1981 - 1983 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2020 Modern Times, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA Between the Lines, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC 2019 In Color, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA Small Paintings, The Chapin School, Princeton NJ 2018 The Unified Field, Blank Space, New York, NY 2017 Colors for a Large Wall, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA 2016 Excerpts From A Year In Painting, Art in Public Spaces, Context: Art Miami, Miami, FL Gravity, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington, DC 2015 The New Paintings, Blank Space, New York, NY 2014 Looking In: New Paintings, Axom Gallery, Rochester, NY 2013 Place and Process, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC 2012 Atlas, Blank Space, NY, NY (PDF Catalog) Arcades, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA The Expanded Field, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD 2011 Atmospheres & Imaginary Soundtracks, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC 2010 Matthew Langley / Heejo Kim, Blank Space, New York, NY Color Autonomy, University of Maryland University College, Curated by Robert Donovan Angel Dust : Matthew Langley + Douglas Witmer, No Future Projects, Dayton Ohio 2009 Simple, Difficult., University of Baltimore, Baltimore MD 2008 Paintings + Paperworks, DCAC (District of Columbia Arts Center), Washington DC, Curator: J.W. Mahoney New Paperworks, Green Line Projects, Philadelphia PA, Curator: Douglas Witmer 1995 New Paintings, Kramerbooks, Washington DC 1994 New Paperworks, GO! Gallery, Arlington VA 1993 Channel Surfing and Blueprints (Drawings, 1993), GO! Gallery, Arlington VA SELECTED GROUP SHOWS AND EVENTS 2022 If Tomorrow Comes, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY Good Will, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Innersense, Curated by, Germán Herrera, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA Abstraction, Susan Calloway Fine Art, Washington DC 2021 One Thing Leads To Another, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY Architecture Shape & Color: A Group Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Summertide, KW Contemporary, Kennebunk, ME Poets: A Group Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Into the Unknown, KW Contemporary, Kennebunk, ME 2020 Another Fine Mess Age, NIAD Art Center, Richmond CA Smokeshow, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY, Curated By Alan Goolmat, Kennebunk, ME
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BSMT, Mana Contemporary Hope Springs Eternal, Blank Space, New York, NY All That Glitters, KW Contemporary Art, Kennebunk, ME Suspended Universe, Lichtundfire, New York NY 2019 In Pusuit of Color, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY, Curated By Alan Goolman Pop Up Installation @ Danielle, Upstart Modern, San Francisco, CA The Languages of Painting, IdeelArt Big Circle, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine Summer Interlude, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC 2018 Vicki Vermicelli and Friends, Vicki Projects, Queens, NY The Place Between, with: Will Berry, Dragana Crnjak, Julian Jackson, Michael Kindred Knight, Cait Porter, Fiona Ross, Ed Ruscha, and Kazaan Viveiros, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA New Work For a New System (RNOP) Cincinnati, Divisable, Cincinnati, OH 2017 Glow, Glimmer, Sparkle, Shine, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Sasha Feldman, Matthew Langley, Ann Knutson Provan, 114 Partition, Saugerties, NY GAMUT: A Group Show about Color with Jeffrey Bishop, Jeanette Fintz, Matthew Langley and David Provan, Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY This One’s For You, DM Contemporary, New York, NY District Redefinition, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC Back To Mine v.2, Corridor, Dayton OH., Curated By Jeffrey Cortland Jones Warm Up, Chill Down, Thaw Out, DM Contemporary, New York, NY The Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY 2016 Year In Review, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC The Indian Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2. Corridor, Dayton, OH, Curated By Jeffrey Cortland Jones Travels to: Class Room, Coventry, England, Apothecary, Chattanooga, TN, Volunteer State Community College, Nashville, TN, Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany, Raygun Gallery, Queensland, Australia, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe (East London), England, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois, Artfull Living, Axom Gallery , Rochester, NY PUBLIC COLLECTIONS US State Department; Art In Embassies Program Montefiore Hospital NYU Langone Health Sloane Kettering Hospital Cafritz Foundation Ernst and Young DC Commission for the Art and Humanities PNC Bank The Doris Patz Collection (University of Maryland) University of Baltimore International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction Capital One Bank
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MATTHEW LANGLEY RECENT SMALL WORKS
Catalog Design Registrar Kirsten Hemrich Published 2022 Vertical Horizon, 2022 (Cover) Installation Variable (Opposite page)
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