Studio News

  • New Sunspot Drawings

    After a year of technical and material research, in the fall of 2022 I embarked on a new and ongoing series of gouache and pencil drawings of sunspots by directly observing the sun’s surface through a telescope in my garden in South Orange, New Jersey. Each drawing is annotated with supplementary texts and illustrations. What subject matter? Anything under the sun.

  • New Celestial Works

    Since the start of the pandemic, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the dark simply attempting to document the sublime things I observe in the night sky overhead. My research — which lies at the nexus of divergent fields including optics, perception, color theory, astronomy, physics, mathematics, meteorology, mythology, spirituality, philosophy, history, art history, photography, archeology, and more — is open-ended and ongoing.

    Photo: The planet Jupiter with its four Galilean Moons. Callisto and Io at left, and Europa and Ganymede at right. November 11, 2023, 9:01pm EST.

  • On the Horizon: A Faculty Exhibition

    June 29, 2023 – April 7, 2024

    The School of Fine Arts Gallery and Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery, Hamilton Building
    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    The first public exhibition of my new Sunspot Drawings. The exhibition is curated by Eileen Neff, Resident Critic in PAFA’s MFA program since 2006. Eileen has cultivated a curatorial practice within her own work, going back to her first installation at PS1 in Long Island City, NY in 1982.

    Artwork:
    Matthew Deleget
    Sunspots, Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 1:00pm, 2023
    Gouache and graphite on cold press watercolor paper
    15 x 11 inches / 38 x 28 cm

  • Rose: Une couleur aux prises avec le genre, by Kévin Bideaux

    Published by Éditions Amsterdam, Paris, France, November 2023
    528 pages, hardcover, French language, ISBN: 9782354802769

    Tout le monde le sait, « le rose, c’est pour les filles ». De fait, il rattache au féminin tout ce qu’il colore. Tour à tour marqueur de beauté ou de séduction, de douceur ou de naïveté, il contribue à une esthétisation du genre et à la perpétuation de stéréotypes : d’un côté, il rend le féminin superficiel, artificiel, donc paradoxalement invisible ; de l’autre, son association au masculin connote l’efféminement, voire l’homosexualité. Rose interroge la place singulière que cette couleur occupe en Occident. De sa rivalité avec le rouge à son association à la fleur, en passant par le style rococo et le rendu des chairs dans la peinture ; des premiers colorants roses jusqu’à Barbie ; de l’opposition du bleu et du rose aux divers usages qu’en ont faits la mode, le cinéma, les dessins animés et les jeux vidéo ; de la construction de la préférence pour le rose au rôle qu’il joue dans le marketing, sans oublier la relation ambivalente que les mouvements féministes et LGBTQ entretiennent à son égard, Kévin Bideaux retrace, abondante iconographie à l’appui, la longue histoire sociale, artistique, politique et culturelle d’une couleur devenue une véritable technologie de genre.

    Kévin Bideaux est artiste et chercheur en arts et en études de genre, membre du Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS) et du Centre français de la couleur (CFC). Il a soutenu en 2021 sa thèse de doctorat La Vie en rose. Petite histoire d’une couleur aux prises avec le genre, récompensée par le Prix de thèse 2022 de l’Institut du genre.

  • Applying for Grants & Residencies Workshop

    New York Academy of Art
    New York, NY

    Friday, March 15, 2024
    Friday, March 22, 2024

    A two-part, professional development workshop for students in the academy’s MFA Program.

  • Sharon Brant Artist Talk

    Thursday, January 25, 2024, 7-8pm EST

    An online interview with Beacon, NY-based artist Sharon Brant on the occasion of her solo exhibition Change & Recurrence presenting recent paintings at MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY. This is the Beacon, New York-based artist’s third solo show at the gallery.

    For more than five decades, artist Sharon Brant has produced conceptually and aesthetically rigorous hard-edged paintings, works on paper, drawings, and reliefs. In the works on view in her new exhibition Change and Recurrence, Brant continues to mine, question, challenge, and further her enduring investigation into the reductive elements of color, shape, and line, and their inexhaustible arrangement on a two-dimensional surface.

  • Gabriele Evertz: Path - Exhibition Catalogue

    Published on the occasion of the exhibition Gabriele Evertz: Path at Minus Space, 2022.

    Texts by Gabriele Evertz, Leslie Roberts, John Yau, Matthew Deleget

    Photography: Yao Zu Lu, Design: Yao Zo Lu
    Published by MINUS SPACE, 2023
    64p, color, softcover, 10 x 8.5 inches, ISBN: 979-8-218-12120-4

    Gabriele Evertz (b. 1945 Berlin, Germany; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. Her recent museum exhibitions include the South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), The Baker Museum (Naples, FL), Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT), Columbus Museum (Columbus, OH), Heckscher Museum (Huntington, NY), Hillwood Art Museum (Brookville, NY), Louisiana Art & Science Museum (Baton Rouge, LA), MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY), Museo de Art Contemporáneo (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Osthaus Museum Hagen (Hagen, Germany), Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), and Ulrich Museum (Wichita, KS).

  • Portfolio Development Workshop

    The Anchorage Museum
    Anchorage, Alaska

    Wednesday, November 15, 2023

    A professional development workshop for the recipients of the Rasmuson Foundation’s Individual Artists Awards (IAA).

  • Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency (CIAR)

    In an inspirational setting far removed from the distractions of daily life, Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency’s (CIAR) 2023 Fall Residency Program offers visual artists focused time and a uniquely supportive natural and human environment to develop their work. On a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, CIAR hosts a group of twelve artists to use the island itself as their studio. Living together in the historic Avalon Inn, the residents are invited to welcome nature into their artistic practice, as they create work inspired by their coastal surroundings, trade ideas, and learn from each other.

    Renowned figurative and landscape painter, Mario Robinson will join as the Visiting Artist, giving a slide talk about his work and sharing his expertise with the resident artists as he works alongside them on his own projects. Artist, gallerist, curator, and arts professional, Matthew Deleget will give a lecture and Q&A session providing tools for building a sustainable art career.

  • Television Interview

    How Does An Artist Break Through in the Industry
    By Axel Turcios
    Hosted by Lauren Magarino
    The Why (Episode 262)
    Scripps News
    Broadcast on February 27, 2023

    “The Why” reveals the answers behind the headlines, through a unique blend of hyper-visual explanatory journalism and compelling guest interviews you won’t find anywhere else on primetime television. At 10 p.m. ET each weeknight, host Lauren Magarino provides a deep dive into the big social, cultural and political topics of the day.

  • SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams & Systems-Based Explorations

    Curated by Matthew Deleget + Rossana Martinez

    Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

    February 15 - June 14, 2020

    The exhibition SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams & Systems-Based Explorations presents several generations of artists who investigate and visualize the intersection of divergent subjects of pressing concern — the arts, culture, history, race, gender, politics, economics, sciences, humanities, transportation, and the quotidian, among others — primarily through the creation of visionary, often fantastical, charts, maps, diagrams, and lists.

  • Museum Acquisition

    Matthew Deleget
    Century, 2018
    Scored and creased black mirrored paper
    A4 paper size, 29.7 x 21 cm / 11.8 x 8.3 inches
    Edition of 3

    Created for the major survey exhibition Century: Idea Bauhaus

    Dr. Julius AP, Berlin, Germany, 2019

    Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s founding

    Artwork acquired by the Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany, 2019