Curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Beeler Gallery
Columbus College of Art and Design
60 Cleveland Avenue
Columbus, OH 43215
www.beelergallery.org

November 14 - December 14, 2024

Steeped in the histories of abstraction and protest, Closer—Still is a collection of small works by an international group of artists who question the current state of the world. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones, one of the artists with work in the Beeler Gallery exhibition Humming of the Strings.

Participating Artists:
Dave Ackels | Matthew Allen | Nicolo Baraggioli | Arvid Boecker | Ron Buffington | Marc Cheetham | Thomas Condon | Michael Conlan | William Cunningham | Corey Allen Davis | Matthew Deleget | Daniel DeLuna | Tom Duimstra | Stuart Fineman | Russell Floersch | Adam Reid Fox | Alan Greenberg | Nick Grindrod | Billy Gruner | Patrick Morrissey & Hanz Hancock | Gretel Helm | Frank Herrmann | Gary Hinsche | Peter Holm | Andre Hyland | Chris Jackson | Celia Johnson | Heather Jones | Olivia Jones | Cayman K. | Matthew Langley | Geno Luketic | Alex McClurg | Dennis Meier | Edmund J. Merricle II | David T. Miller | Marc Mitchell | Toby Mott | Claire Murphy | Brooke Nixon | Catie Orban | Roland Orepuk | Jacqueline Patton | Jon Poblador | Marc Ross | Tim Schwartz | Dorian Smith | Winston Smith | Benjamin Lee Sperry | Clary Stolte | Richard van der Aa | Don Voisine | Seth Wade | Dan Wells | Paige Williams | Douglas Witmer | Stephen Wright | Mark Zimmermann | Tamar Zinn

C24 Gallery
560 W. 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
www.c24gallery.com

September 9 - November 8, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 6-8pm

Participating Artists:
Dan Cameron, Sally Curcio, Matthew Deleget, Michelle Grabner, Richard Klein, D. Dominick Lombardi, Yohanna M. Roa

A group exhibition of artists who curate and curators that make art, organized by gallery director David C. Terry.

In the C24 Gallery Atrium, we present Make It Or Break It, a group exhibition of artwork created by artists who are also seasoned curators. Developed in conversation and collaboration between long-time colleagues and friends David C. Terry and D. Dominick Lombardi, both artists as well as curators, the show brings together the work of seven skilled artists whose curatorial careers lend additional depth to their artistic vision.

Make It Or Break It features the work of Dan Cameron, Sally Curcio, Matthew Deleget, Michelle Grabner, Richard Klein, D. Dominick Lombardi and Yohanna M. Roa. The selections in this exhibition share a common attention to the passage of time and our relationship with the past through multiple media, including the use of found objects and the assemblage of materials that evoke both nostalgia as well as a re-examination of history, context, and culture.​ 

​In the same way that curators create a new context around bodies of work by individual or groups of artists, the visual elements in this exhibition recontextualize familiar imagery to create new narratives and explorations. The works by these artists present a re-examination of cultural symbols and traditions through the dual perspective of both artist and curator, with complex, multi-layered results.​

​As the talent scouts of the art world, curators are tasked with seeking out fresh visions and breaking open the careers of heretofore unknown artists. But when they are also artists themselves, it falls upon them to generate these fresh perspectives through their own creative practice. Make it Or Break It offers a glimpse into the layered imaginations of creators who wear multiple hats, generating a most unique and nuanced dialogue.

Connecting Collage and Curation at C24
By William Eckhardt Kohler
Two Coats of Paint
October 24, 2024

“Make It or Break It, now showing at C24 Gallery in Chelsea, features a group of artist known for their curatorial practices who use collage or found objects to disrupt, critique, and reflect reality. The implication here that collage in particular has become a prominent part of our visual vernacular suggests a pervasively fractured way of seeing the world and a compulsion to reorganize it. Each artist explores how fragments, juxtaposed images, and collected objects more broadly articulate new associations and understandings that encompass personal history, culture, and art history…

…Matthew Deleget is the most visually blunt of the assembled artists but also possibly the most consistently conceptual. Antique-style frames and canvas are spray painted in monochrome, challenging our ideas about whether something is a painting or an object. The traditional picture window view into the world has become screened over, blocked and reasserted as a physical object and also a minimalist abstraction.

Across the exhibition, the artists engage in a quiet dialogue about materiality, nostalgia, and the evolving role of collage, their modes of art-making affirming their curatorial sensibilities. In both domains, they ask us to reconsider how we arrange and re-arrange our visual world, the way everyday objects or pop-culture fragments can become tools for reimagining the familiar. The art here thrives on ambiguity, favoring the subtle over the declarative, raising questions rather than prescribing answers. Curation itself becomes an act of collage, as each artist contributes to a broader consideration of how images, objects, and their meanings can be deconstructed and reassembled. In an era in which the barrage of images can feel overwhelming, these artists demonstrate the value of slowing down and re-examining how the past and present intersect.”

I'm delighted to release a new suite of Vanitas paintings conceived over the past five years after moving from Brooklyn to South Orange, New Jersey, and completed during the summer 2024. These works are all made with vintage frames (some damaged) scrounged up in thrift, second-hand, garage / yard / estate sales, and antique stores here in New Jersey.

The new works are primarily horizontal / landscape format and the colors reference those found in the works of various Hudson River School painters, such as Asher B. Durand, George Inness, and Thomas Worthington Whittredge, who were active around these parts more than a century ago.

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
New York, NY, 10013
www.drawingcenter.org

September 26-30, 2024
Private Benefit Reception: Monday, September 30, 6-9pm

I'm honored to be invited as one of a select group of individuals to curate a small, focused exhibition of artists whose work I admire for the Drawing Center's benefit exhibition. The exhibition will be on view at the Drawing Center for one week and all sales will support the museum's activities.

Origin Stories
The artists included in my selection for The Drawing Center are all investigating the theme of origins, with works expressing narratives ranging from the celestial to the autobiographical and everything in between. The ur, the source, the beginning, the primal, the sublime, the metaphysical, the spiritual, the mythological, the ritual, the historical, the cultural, the ontological, the alchemical, the therapeutic, the human, the animal.

Participating Artists (clockwise from top left):
Bibi Calderaro, Orange Li, Douglas Melini, Emi Winter, Vincent Como, Leslie Roberts, Greg Herbowy, Gwen Smith

New York Academy of Art
New York, NY

Tuesday, October 15, 6-8pm
Tuesday, October 22, 6-8pm
Tuesday, November 13, 6-8pm

A three-part professional development workshop for the academy’s MFA students.

Metaphor Projects
382 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn (Downtown), NY 11217
www.metaphorprojects.com

I'm thrilled to join more than 90 of my artist colleagues for the upcoming artKAMALA Benefit Event & Auction taking place at Metaphor Projects in downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday, October 1, 6-9pm.

Please join us for what will certainly be a terrific party featuring exceptional artworks for sale with all proceeds benefiting the Kamala Harris / Tim Walz 2024 election fund.

https://metaphorprojects.com/section/532175-artKAMALA.html

Post Event Update:

"artKAMALA and notes on democracy in action

About 70 days ago when Kamala Harris announced her candidacy for president Julian and I decided to try and help her win in the best way we know how by gathering our extraordinary artist community to come together to raise funds and raise support for a Harris victory. This election is the most important one in our lifetimes and we need all hands on deck.

We invited 96 artists who generously donated 100 art works for her support. We asked only two things that the art be smaller than 18 inches and that it be exceptional. Artists delivered to us their A game. The excellent quality of all the art work in the auction was in large part the reason for the overall success of artKAMALA. Metaphor Projects presented a beautiful exhibition on line and in the gallery that represented the best of humanity… it was authentic work of deep caliber. Many artists created a piece especially for the auction.

As of today, we sold 94 art works out of 100. We raised $60,506.00. 100% of which went directly to the Kamala Harris campaign through our artKAMALA ActBlue portal. It is gratifying to know, she is already using this crucially needed money we raised to sway voters in the swing states. We are proud to have had a wide reach… we sold artKAMALA artworks around the country to: Nevada, Georgia, Maine, Vermont, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, and of course New York.

More than the money, though, artKAMALA is a community action. Hundreds of people visited our artKAMALA website and the gallery and made donations. There is power in numbers and there is power in action and there is power in standing up for your convictions publicly. The artists and supporters of artKAMALA stood up for their convictions.

Metaphor Projects is located in downtown Brooklyn, a nexus of diversity. During the run up to the exhibit/auction (which included the hugely attended Atlantic Antic) and during the week long wrap up, folks visited our gallery to view the art and be photographed with our life-sized “Kamala” cutout and most importantly to engage in long discussions about democracy and the importance of this election. It was a profound experience to speak with so many Americans about their hopes for our future. It was especially wonderful to see how many very young voters as well as seasoned voters are truely fired up about Kamala. Since this is Atlantic Avenue the visitors literally come from every age group, race and religion and from all over the country. The artworks and the openness of the atmosphere created a welcoming space where folks could share their anxieties and hopes for our country. Many folks came from other countries, Australia, Spain, Japan, to name a few… which served to underscore that this decision we will make as a country on this election day in November is consequential for the world. The whole world is anxious we make the right choice.

artKAMALA is bigger than all of us, bigger than just a great and fun party on auction night, bigger than a beautiful exhibit, bigger than the funds raised. This is democracy in action.

We are so grateful to all of the generosity of the artists, the donors, and the auction night team for all of their good energy and support that made artKAMALA a big success. Positive energy is infectious as is negativity. artKAMALA seeded a lot of positivity that rippled out far and wide.

“For the People!” Let’s turn the page together for a brighter future.

in solidarity,
Rene Lynch and Julian Jackson, Metaphor Projects"

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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