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Matthew Langley

1963
(USA) AMERICAN

Matthew Langley is an abstract American artist. He is interested in a balance of color and process, mark making and field, scale and relationship, planning and improvisation. He lives and works in New York City.

Education

The artist studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in 1986.

Technique

Matthew's technique in creating the artworks comes from building and extending as well as reducing and minimizing the painted surface. He believes that this is not counter-productive, and that often the way forward is to build, rebuild and start again. Often this will employ semi-transparent layers of paint combining the under surface of the artwork to achieve the artist's intent.

Inspiration

Langley's artistic background relates to a wide variety of interests. He is well versed in Color Field painting—in particular, work by Morris Louis, Sam Gilliam, and Gene Davis, as well as the abstraction from Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, Callum Innes among others. The artist also has a great interest in the physical paint-handling of artists like Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter.

Collections

Langley's work is featured in various corporate as well as public collections, including MacAndrews & Forbes and the Doris Patz Collection (University of Maryland University College).

Exhibitions

The NYC-based artist has widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, mainly on the East Coast. His recent one-man shows include The New Paintings at Blank Space, New York, NY in 2015, and Looking In: New Painting at Axom, Rochester, NY in 2014. His upcoming solo exhibition will be on view at Susan Calloway Fine Arts from September 16 until October 22, 2016. Langley's work has been covered in publications such as Art in America and The Washington Post.

Galleries

Blank Space, NYC Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Calloway Fine Art, Wash DC Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Upstart Modern, San Francisco CA Axom Gallery, Rochester NY KW Contemporary, Kennebunk, ME Sara Nightingale, Sag Harbor, NY Arteria Gallery, Bromont, Canada

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Education

1985 BFA, Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC

Solo & 2 Person Exhibitions

2016 Excerpts From A Year In Painting, Art in Public Spaces, Context: Art Miami, Miami, FL
2016 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, New York, NY
2012 The Expanded Field, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick MD
2012 Arcades, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Atmospheres & Imaginary Soundtracks, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2010 Color Autonomy, University of Maryland University College, Curated by Robert Donovan
2009 Simple, Difficult., University of Baltimore, Baltimore MD
2008 New Paperworks, Green Line Projects, Philadelphia PA, Curator: Douglas Witmer
2008 2 Paintings + Paperworks, DCAC (District of Columbia Arts Center), Washington DC, Curator: J. W. Mahoney
1994 New Paperworks, GO! Gallery, Arlington VA
1993 Channel Surfing and Blueprints (Drawings, 1993), GO! Gallery, Arlington VA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Vicki Vermicelli and Friends, Vicki Projects, Queens, NY
2018 The Place Between, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Glow, Glimmer, Sparkle, Shine, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Sasha Feldman, Matthew Langley, Ann Knutson Provan, 114 Partition, Saugerties, NY
2017 GAMUT: A Group Show about Color, Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY
2017 This One’s For You, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2017 District Redefinition, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2017 Back To Mine v.2, Corridor, Dayton OH
2017 Warm Up, Chill Down, Thaw Out, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2017 The Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2016 The Indian Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2016 Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, Corridor, Dayton, OH
2016 Travels to: Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; Raygun Gallery, Queensland, Australia; Angelika Studios, East London, England; Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois; Artfull Living, Axom Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015 BOUND / UNBOUND Unique and Small Edition Artists’ Books, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2015 Art Miami, Context, represented by Blank Space, Miami, FL
2015 These Go To Eleven: Small Works Group Exhibition, Artists and Makers, Bethesda, MD
2015 The Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2015 Full Spectrum, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2015 A Few Conversations About Color, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
2014 Fiction, Neon Heater, Finlay, OH
2014 g/s (grams per second), No Future Projects, Dayton, Ohio
2014 Summer Exhibition, Blank Space, New York, NY
2013 The 25 Project, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
2013 Sketchbook, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore MD
2013 Back to Mine, Neon Heater, Finlay, OH
2013 Right and Other Angles, SoftSpot, online
2013 Summer Exhibition, Blank Space, New York, NY
2012 STROKE: Gesture, Mark, Muscle, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore MD
2012 Affordable Fine Art for Young Collectors, Susan Calloway Gallery, Washington DC
2012 As Far As The Eye Can See, Adam Lister Gallery, Fairfax, VA
2012 Summer Exhibition, Blank Space, New York, NY
2012 Beyond Measure, C2 Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL
2012 Works on Paper, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2011 New Year, New Work, New Faces, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Material World, Art DC, Hyattsville, MD
2011 Life Of The World To Come: Darkness Falls Upon Us, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2010 Blank Space Pop Up Gallery, Blank Space, Seoul, Korea
2010 Six Months Twelve Artists: Paintings, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2010 Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN
2010 The Series: Matthew Langley + Heejo Kim, Blank Space, New York, NY
2010 Angel Dust: Matthew Langley + Douglas Witmer, No Future Projects, Dayton, Ohio
2009 Business Edition, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Touch Faith, Semantics, Cincinnati, OH
2009 Avant Fairfax, Old Town Hall, Fairfax VA
2009 Art - 0 - matic, Washington DC
2009 The Sketchbook Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Art - 0 - matic, Washington DC
2008 42007: Art - 0 - matic, Crystal City VA
2008 Twelve By Twelve, Chop Suey, Richmond VA
2008 White on White, Fort Worth Art Center, TX
2006 Hon Fest / After Hours, Smith Content, Baltimore MD
2006 MOCA DC at 15, MOCA DC, Washington DC
2006 Close to Solitude, Current Gallery, Baltimore MD
2005 Frederick 19th Annual Photographic Competition, Mary Condon Hodgson Art Gallery, Frederick MD
2005 Twelve By Twelve, ADA Gallery, Richmond VA
2005 After Hours, Smith Content, Baltimore MD
1995 Hemicycle Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. DC
1995 Summer, Foundry Gallery, Wash. DC
1995 Summer Paintings, Eclipse Art Center, Arlington VA
1995 WPA Salon, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
1995 Paper, The Athenaeum, Alexandria VA

Collections

Cafritz
Capital One Bank
Saks Fifth Avenue
Montefiore Hospital
NYU Langone Health
Ernst and Young
MacAndrews & Forbes
DC Commission for the Art and Humanities
The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction
University of Baltimore
The Doris Patz Collection (University of Maryland University College)
PNC Bank
US State Department; Art In Embassies Program

Publications

2017 ACS Magazine, Matthew Langley, January 2017
2016 360 Magazine blog, Art Miami + CONTEXT Art Miami Fairs Boast Strong Attendance & Sales during Miami Art Week, Dec 8
2016 The Washington Post, In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed, Mark Jenkins, October 14
2016 The Georgetown Current, Exhibit Shows Social Commentary in Modernism, Sept 14
2016 DC By Design Blog, Matthew Langley: Gravity, Sept 16
2016 Joanne Mattera Art Blog, The Indian Summer Show at dm contemporary, Sept. 17
2015 Southern Living Magazine, August 2015; Make Something 365 Blog, A Painting A Day
2014 American Psychologist, Cover Art, May/June 2014
2014 Lisa Pressman Art Blog, Matthew Langley Studio Visit
2013 Two Coats of Paint, Studio visit: Matthew Langley and the palette knife, Sharon Butler
2013 bmore, Sketchbook at School 33, Allison Gulick
2013 Washington City Paper, The 25 Project, By Christopher Porter
2012 New York Magazine, “How To Make It In The Art World” May 10
2012 Two Coats of Paint, Extending and reducing: Matthew Langley at Blank Space, Sharon Butler
2012 Elan Magazine
2012 Frederick News Post, Creating Space, Lauren LaRoca
2012 Frederick Gazette, Field Opens at Delaplaine, Feb. 2
2011 NPR (National Public Radio) WAMU 88.5 Art Beat with Eric Rameswaram; Elan Magazine, Polar Approaches, Article by Donna Cedar-South

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