Reports of the Director’s demise in a bizarre gardening accident have been exaggerated. The hiatus at the Gallery’s Main Street location since mid-January was due to a major construction project in the building, trips to art fairs in Miami and West Palm Beach, and the work of moving back in, all of which inevitably required more effort and time than foreseen.

We have a great show for you, and we welcome you back to our classy Main Street gallery space, our home now for more than ten years.

While our focus at Matthew Swift Gallery is not explicitly regional, the physical place of Gloucester MA and its remarkable legacy in the arts has in one way or another influenced the work of most of the gallery’s artists. Many have lived in or adjacent to Gloucester, and others have a significant connection to the place — a friend, a family member, a father’s place of work.

Gloucester’s influence does not always lead an artist to represent the place, but often it does, and with this exhibition, Matthew Swift Gallery is taking time to acknowledge and celebrate the city and region of Gloucester MA and its heritage, past and present, in all the arts — visual, literary, and more. As you would expect if you follow Matthew Swift Gallery, we have curated this exhibition like our others, requiring more than excellence of craft, valuing the revelations of perspectives one step or several away from the most beaten paths, choosing voices uniquely individual even as they describe a communal landscape and continue the communal conversation that is the living history of art, and seeking works of art which shows us something new and something deeper than the superficial beauty of our shared world that we can see for ourselves, unaided.

Right Here on Paper features work by Zygmund Jankowski, Erma Wheeler, Albert Alcalay, Winston Boyer, Gabrielle Barzaghi, Charlie Carroll, and Jeffrey Marshall. The Gallery is also very pleased to introduce watercolors by Howard Kline, an artist who resided in Rockport for many years and now resides in Arizona.

Opening one week later on August 13, a companion exhibition Vault Room titled Right Here Not on Paper will include works not on paper depicting Gloucester, Massachusetts, and environs.

The Gallery will host an reception in celebration of the artists participating in both exhibitions on Saturday, August 13, 4–6:30pm.

Selected works in the exhibition are shown below.

Selections from the exhibition are shown in the slideshow below.

Please review the Gallery’s Covid-19 policies before visiting the gallery.

Fair organizers have furthermore invited Matthew Swift Gallery to exhibit the work of Erma Wheeler (1915–2005) in a special exhibition program “Kabinett” that the fair has established to offer collectors the work of artists of historical importance, in Europe referred to as “Rediscovered.”

The main booth will feature a walk-in area hung salon-style with smaller and alternative works by the artists of the main booths.

The three slideshows below include the works planned to be shown the main booth, adjacent Kabinett booth, and the salon area of the main booth, respectively.

For fair passes, please contact the gallery. Our booth is number 502, to the right as you enter.

20/20 vision. 2020 year. 20 divided from 20. slogan what are you looking at now / what /how will you see in 20/20? a closer lookWhatever your question, we’ve got an answer. IF you see division (20/20) or unity (20/20 = 1), we’ve got the answer.

Nikon
Peter Lyons
2019, oil on panel, 16 x 12 in.

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present 20/20: What are you looking at?, an exhibition which invites you to take a closer look. What have visual artists been thinking and doing as 2020 approaches? What art will you be living with in 2020?

Selected works in the exhibition are shown below. The exhibition is subject to revision as availability evolves. Please contact the gallery to confirm whether a particular work of art remains available.

We are very pleased to be showing more work by artists Timothy Harney and Jeffrey Marshall and to be showing mixed-media wall sculptures by Kim Radochia for the first time.

Selected works on view are in the slideshow below. New Series exhibitions are fluid, subject to revision as inspiration and availability evolve. Please contact the gallery to confirm whether a particular work of art is available or on view.

It’s not a showy start to the next six years — new signs are in progress, and I’ve been too busy putting this together to stop to tell you about it — but I am very pleased to introduce a truly excellent selection of new works of art to you, which will be on view through September 15.

• 16 works of art, 15 of which I have not shown before.
• 13 artists, 4 of whom I have not shown before.
• 3 works from the 1970s, and one likely earlier.
• Large and small; from $1,200 to $23,000.

Selected works on view are in the slideshow below.

The exhibition will include prints, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and drawings, and the Gallery is pleased to be working with guest artists Alex Khomski, Aron Leaman, Debra Olin, Michelle Samour, and Debra Weisberg, as well as gallery artists Gabrielle Barzaghi, Winston Boyer, Susan Erony, and Erma Wheeler.

The gallery will host an Opening Reception in honor of the artists on Saturday, April 13, 5–7pm.