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Matt Neuman / neuman.matt@gmail.com
About the artist: In 2011 Matt received an MFA at Boston University. He currently lives in Brooklyn and spends his days making art in his Bronx studio with his dog Gesso.
Matt's current body of work focuses on color and uses a unique combination of painting and building techniques to craft abstract, geometric paintings that have a strong material and sculptural presence. In 2013 printmaking muscled its way to the forefront of Matt's studio practice. The constant exchange of ideas and visual vocabulary between painting and printmaking has a wonderful synergy, where the two media help to continually redefine the nature of each other's process.
While living in Boston, Matt exhibited his work at galleries and museums, including NKG, 808 Gallery, and the Danforth Museum of Art. After finishing his MFA, Matt's paintings were featured in Alpha Gallery's annual "New Talent" exhibit recognizing Boston's best up-and-coming artists. Matt's work is represented by: 212 Gallery (Aspen), Kate Alkarni Gallery (Seattle) and Decorazon Gallery (London). New York galleries should feel free to solicit theirs services for Matt's consideration. His work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, The Boston Art Review and the Aspen Times.
Matt Neuman:
Geometry as a structural tool comes from the shape from painting itself. It is humanity’s most basic organizing principle and it provides a highly intuitive structure for making sense of space. These large-scale woodcut prints use geometry as a delivery vehicle for color and provide a visual experience at the intersection between Cartesian and non-Euclidian space. The resulting visual experience challenges the viewers’ assumption about the nature of space and the role abstraction plays in providing a visual analog to the existence of more fundamental spatial realities.
2014, woodcut monotype on wood 68 x 96 $18,500 (framed)
2014 woodcut monotype collage 71 x 71 inches $15,000 (framed)
2015 - poured acrylic on wood 60 x 60 $15,000
2011 poured acrylic on wood panel 72 x 72 inches $15,000
woodcut collage 68 x 68 inches $13,500 (framed)
2013, woodcut monotype collage on wood 68 x 68 inches $13,500 (framed)
2011, poured acrylic and wood on panel 67 x 67 inches $13,500
2011, poured acrylic and wood on panel 67 x 67 inches $13500
2013, woodcut monotype on wood, 66 x 66 inches $13500 (framed)
2012, poured acrylic and wood on panel 60 x 60 inches $13,500 (framed)
2012, poured acrylic and wood on panel 60 x 60 inches $13,500 (framed)
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Education
2011 Boston University MFA, Boston, MA
2007 Skidmore College: BA, Saratoga Springs, NY
Residencies
2008 LIVASPENART Studios: Resident Painter, Aspen, CO
2007 Anderson Ranch Arts Center: Resident Painter, Snowmass, CO
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Supersummnetry. Horowitz Performing Arts Center, Saxtons River, VT
2008 Chaos in Confines. LIVASPENART, Aspen, CO
Group Exhibitions
2013 Neo/Geo: New Perspectives in Geometric Abstraction
Christopher Martin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Flat File Boston Spring Salon, Boston, MA
Beyond the Body. LIVASPENART, Aspen CO
Off the Wall, Danforth Museum of Art. Framingham, MA
NKG National Juried 2012, NK Gallery, Boston
Junk or Genius: Gallore Gallery, Middletown, CT
Supersymmetry: Horowitz Performing arts Center, Saxtons River VT
2011 Energy As Currency, LIVASPENART, Aspen CO
New Talent. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Gibson House Museum, Boston, MA
Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston, MA
Repercussions of Color, Space and Line, All and Nothing,
LIVASPENART, Aspen, CO
Off the Wall. Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Boston University. Boston, MA
2010 Commonwealth Gallery Exhibition, Boston University, Boston MA
Boston Young Contemporaries Juried Exhibition, Boston, MA
2008 Bridge Art Fair: Wynwood Invitational, Miami, FL
Big N Bold. Aspen Chapel Gallery- Group Exhibition, Aspen, CO
LIVASPENART Group Exhibition, Aspen, CO
Anderson Ranch Resident Artist Exhibition, Snowmass Village, CO
2007 Skidmore College Senior Thesis Exhibition, Saratoga Springs, NY
2006 Art on the Mountain, Juried Painting Exhibition, Halifax, VT
Skidmore College Student Art Exhibition, Saratoga Springs, NY
Accolades
2012 St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Scholarship Nominee.
2011 George Sherman William Commission Award, Boston University
2011 Howard Gotlieb Rare Book Library Purchase Award, Boston
University
2010 Boston University Visual Arts Scholarship, Boston, MA
2007 Magna Cum Laude, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2007 Departmental Honors recipient, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
2007 Senior Thesis Exhibition Honors, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
2007 Jesse Solomon Memorial Award, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
2006 Periclean Honors Society, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2006 Art on the Mountain: Best New Artist, Halifax, VT
2003 Vermont State Congressional Art Competition: Judges Choice Award
2003 Saxtons River art Guild: Promising Artist Scholarship, Saxtons River, VT