Dwelling Featured in Fotomen China
Dwelling is to be featured in Fotomen Magazine, also known as Photographers Companion. You can read the full article, tilted “Rhetoric of the Real” in their January 2023 issue.
“As the favorite photographic brand of millions of readers, Photographers' Companion magazine gathers thousands of international masters, hundreds of articles about practical shooting skills, and builds channels between profession and public for learning and communicating. It has a total circulation of 350,000, which ranks the first of all the photography magazines in mainland China.”
In Good Company at Lydian Stater
Find My Piece In The Summer Shit Show AKA "The Patriot" at O’Flaherty’s
The most disappointing show for an artist to be in is a summer group show. You're slobbed together with a bunch of strangers who are totally unrelated to what you're about, the rich people are out of town, PLUS this gallery would probably never show you.
Guess what. You thought you couldn't be in a more disrespectful group show and you were wrong. We literally took any piece of shit you brought in whether it was awesome or total trash and tried to make it an idea.
The Patriot is a truly democratic show where everyone is treated equally like shit.
Interview with Chunbum Park up on Emerging Artists Collective
"Dwelling" series to be showcased at the 8th Singapore International Photography Festival
The Festival presents the theme Future Known as Unpredicted and explores the infinite nature of future; the imagined and the prophetic; the orchestrated and serendipity; the planned and the unpredicted.
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Smithsonian Archives of American Art Oral history interview with David Levinthal now available
In October of 2021 I sat down with photographer David Levinthal to discuss his life and work for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Listen to our nearly 5 hour conversation here.
Reimagined: Leeanna Chipana / Matthew Cronin / Ramon Gil / Ed Malone
April 1 ~ April 29, 2022
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 7, 2022, 4 – 7 pm
Performance by Ed Malone at 5 pm
Artist Talks: Leeanna Chipana: Thursday, April 7, 5:45 pm – 6:30 pm
Matthew Cronin: Friday, April 15, 11:00 am – 12 noon
Ramon Gil: Wednesday, April 20, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Installation view of Dwelling #8, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY 2022
The Big Camera Show on view at The University of Iowa
Dwelling #11 is an editor's pick on 1stDibs
POROUS MODES - On View
Writing about my process on Der Greif
Over the next week, I will be sharing some writing about my Dwelling photographs on Der Greif. Read my first post and follow their blog for future posts.
Der Greif Artist Feature
Pre-Order Der Greif 14 Guest Edited by Sylvie Fleury
A New Nothing Pre-Sale is Live
For Volume 1, editor John Pilson focuses on a diverse and compelling group of portraits. With a nod to John Szarkowski’s Looking At Photographs, he writes specifically about each image chosen, striking a tone that is at once humorous, poignant and surprising. Pilson’s ability to weave together philosophical, art historical and pop cultural references into a series of cogent yet improvisational texts is deeply humanizing. As he states in his introduction, each pairing is “a writer in a duet with a photograph”, an attempt to find something that resonates as opposed to something “that merely explains or dissects.”
Photographs by Aaron Turner, Sara J. Winston, Patrick Gookin, Katie Kline, Jordan Weitzman, Nat Ward, Matthew Cronin, elin o’Hara slavick, Tealia Ellis Ritter, Matthew Leifheit, Eleonora Agostini, Thalassa Raasch, Joey Solomon, Lacey Lennon, Laura Hart Newlon, Ben Alper, Mark Steinmetz, Elizabeth Bick, Irina Rozovsky, Adam Bellefeuil, Jenia Fridlyand, Margo Ovcharenko, Joe Leavenworth, Dylan Hausthor, Roger Richardson, Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, Jonathan Pivovar, Aline Smithson and Naima Green.
New Works Available on Artfare
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Lydian Stater Presents "TLPS"
in Exhibtion
Lydian Stater is excited to present TLPS, an exhibition featuring first-ever NFT works from eleven artists: Jeffrey Michael Austin, Marcos Castro, Matthew Cronin, Yi Hsuan Lai, Marta Rodriguez Maleck & Zac Manuel, Cedric Tai, Anika Todd, Catalina Tuca, Victor Yañez-Lazcano, and Alisa Yang.
In 1637, somewhere in the dimly lit backrooms of wine bars in the Netherlands, merchants took part in a risky game. One in which bets were placed on the future price of a recently introduced flower, the tulip. Contracts changed hands so frequently that prices were completely divorced from the tulip’s inherent value. Inevitably, traders began to refuse to pay the exorbitant prices, causing a cascade of defaulted agreements as the price of tulip contracts crashed in what became the first recorded financial bubble.
The recent rise in the speculative trading of NFT artworks mirrors many qualities of the tulip bubble from the Dutch Golden Age. Excess wealth, status, greed, and—some experts argue—a fatalistic risk-taking culture in the wake of the bubonic plague, were all factors in a wild rise in tulip speculation. Financial speculation permeates the art world, but what was once limited to auction houses, art fairs, and blue chip galleries, now extends into the NFT marketplace.
The artists participating in TLPS are speculating in a different way. Together, their work theorizes that there is room for thoughtful and self-reflexive work in the NFT marketplace, work that relies on nuance, narrative, complexities, and critique rather than social media statistics and prior sales figures. The artist-led speculation takes on the form of video, painting, photography, performance, and sculpture. The work collectively explores themes related to identity: cultural, technological, and emotional, and how identity is intertwined with ownership, labor, and representation.
There is an obvious worry that a blockchain-driven digital world will continue to perpetuate the inequalities already dominating the current art world and economic system. Because of this, artists need early opportunities to engage with this space, to experiment, and to take control of it, as it is possible that much of our economic and social activity will take place here in the future.
While the NFT space could easily be written off as just a new digital playground for the crypto-wealthy, the novelty of NFTs and the unregulated nature of blockchain ecosystems creates a radical prospect for artists: financial and artistic autonomy. TLPS hopes to offer an example of what that autonomous vision might look like.
TLPS will be viewable online at www.lydianstater.co from June 3 to July 9, 2021.
*This exhibition acknowledges the ecological impact on the environment and the economic barriers inherent in many popular blockchain technologies. Because of this concern, all artworks minted for this exhibition have been created on the Tezos blockchain, which consumes 99% less electricity than the most popular blockchain for NFTs, and offers one of the lowest costs of entry into the NFT marketplace.
TLPS: A Group NFT Exhibition
On View: Revelations II: Recent Photography Acquisitions
Revelations II features photographs by:
Kael Alford
Todd Bertolaet
Jane Rule Burdine
Debbie Fleming Cafferty
William Christenberry
Marti Corn
Matthew Cronin
Jim Dow
Matt Eich
Birney Imes
Dorothea Lange
Eddie Lanieri
Clarence John Laughlin
Alex Leme
Louviere + Vanessa
Ken Murphy
Josephine Sacabo
Magdalena Solé
Frank Stewart
Bruce Taylor
Warren Thompson
Bradly Dever Treadaway
Bruce West
Marion Post Wolcott
Revelations II: Recent Photography Acquisitions presents a sweeping survey of documentary and fine-art photographic traditions practiced in the American South from the early 20th century to the present. Acquired by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art over the past decade, these photographs represent diverse perspectives and experiments within the medium, and reflect the depth and complexity of the region.
Revelations II highlights an array of photographic processes and techniques made by twenty-five photographers working within the traditional art genres of landscape, portraiture and still-life. In recent years, emerging and underrepresented photographers have been a focus of the Museum’s photography exhibitions, programming and acquisitions. These emerging voices join established masters within the Ogden’s collection to illustrate the rich tradition of photography in the South.
Since Roger Ogden’s original donation of over 600 works of art in 2003, the Museum’s permanent collection of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and photographs has grown to more than 4,000 works – all acquired through the generosity of artists, patrons and collectors. Today, Ogden Museum’s permanent collection of more than 1,500 photographs represents one of the most important and comprehensive collections of photography made in the American South.
Richard McCabe
Curator of Photography
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
On View: Hush
April 23 - May 21, 2021
Reflecting on the tension that social crisis creates on the world, these artists set forth bodies of work that are introspective on themselves, their own history, and the still lives that perpetually continue with the pendulum of time.
Often working in solitude, the artist in their studio is but a romantic notion that in reality embraces the cacophony of the outside. Noise imprints that are visually studied and balanced with lines, textile, and sculpture. The works presented here embrace a quality of stillness, a hush. That breaks down the noise. In a spectrum of mediums, noises are observed, they sit still, opaque and quiet. There are traces of time –past, present, future or reminders of a physical space where silence is louder than sounds.
Curated by Eva Mayhabal Davis
With works by Gabriel Bielawski, Matthew Cronin, Traci Hercher, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Habby Osk, Whitney Ramage and Daniela Stubbs-Levi