Jeffrey Marshall – Matthew Swift Gallery

Right Here on Paper: Gloucester MA and environs

Matthew Swift — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper depicting Gloucester, Massachusetts, and environs.

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.

— an expression of joy without sentimentality, an insight into the meaning, not just the beauty, of our shared world. and These are high standards expressed in words that may be highfalutin; but art which extends into these dimensions at all, even in a modest or subtle way, is a league apart from art which doesn’t, or never aimed to.

past generations: in works in this exhibition and its companion exhibition, Zygmund Jankowski tips his hat to Edward Hopper, several gallery artists at some point in their careers have reprsented Gloucester and its environs while engaged with and practicing Gloucester’s specific stylistic traditions in the visual arts as well as its

the cultural legacies of the region, the United STates, and the within shared on the landscape and its people,with the landscape and its people and with the history of with some clearly within the Modernist traditions of the region, others with voices outside these traditions, but the strongest lines of historical influence in the region.

and sometimes with self-conscious awareness of other artists who have worked in Gloucester recently or long ago.

the influences are primarily the Modernist thread of the regional heritage, which I distinguish from the Continental / Impressionist : Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, Mark Rothko, Nell Blaine. Gloucester’s literary heritage T. S. Eliot, Charles Olson — is more unequivocally Modernist.

the perspectives of outsiders, valuing the insights of artists who are perpetual outsiders even in their own back yards,

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.

20/20

Matthew Swift — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

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.

New Series Two

Matthew Swift — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:00:00 +0000

New Series exhibitions at Matthew Swift Gallery showcase signature works of art by gallery and guest artists in harmonious groupings, but without an express theme.

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.

New Series One

Matthew Swift — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:00:00 +0000

The gallery introduces a new name, Matthew Swift Gallery; a new exhibition format, a group exhibition of individual treasures; and the work of four artists not previously shown by Trident Gallery, Milton Derr, Timothy Harney, Keith McDaniel, and Jeffrey Marshall. The exhibition includes work made 1961–2019.

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.