This year we have a two-artist booth featuring Peter Lyons and Kim Radochia. Kim will be joining Matthew Swift in the booth during the fair.

Works in the initial booth are shown in the first slideshow below. The second slideshows shows works that are at the fair but not on view in the booth. These may be possible to show in the booth on request with a day’s advance notice (we cannot bring art into the booth during show hours). We will modify these slideshows (when we can) if the work on view in the booth changes. For the most current information, contact the gallery.

NOTE: on this last day of the fair, Wingaersheek and American Milkshake are on view, and Friday, 5pm, Butterfly Weed, Joe Pye Weed, and September in Pozos, Mexico are not on view.

O! the one Life within us and abroad,
Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,
A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,
Rhythm in all thought, and joyance everywhere
…
And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?

from “The Eolian Harp” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1796

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition curated with the inspirations of dance, plant life, and Coleridge’s poem “The Eolian Harp,” responding to the collaboration between Boston Dance Theater and visual artist Kim Radochia which led to the premiere of a new performance piece entitled “Unfurling” at a special performance and reception on March 16th.

The Gallery will host a public reception in celebration of the artists participating in the exhibition on Saturday, April 6, 5–7pm.

One Life features new works by Kim Radochia and Peter Lyons, works by Debra Olin and Patton Blackwell not previously shown at Matthew Swift Gallery, and works by Winston Boyer, Gabrielle Barzaghi, and Aron Leaman. The Gallery is also very pleased to introduce two works of batik on silk by Mary Edna Fraser [The Gallery’s artist page for her will be created soon; meanwhile visit her home page directly.]

A selection of works in the exhibition are shown below.

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Peter Lyons at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, which opens in Southampton, New York, with a private preview on Thursday, July 13, and continues with public hours Friday – Sunday, July 14–16.

Matthew Swift Gallery will exhibit ten oil paintings by Lyons in Booth 366 and have additional paintings by Lyons on location. Lyons is a Spotlight Artist of the fair.

The exhibition will be the public debut of Lyons’s newest major work, a monumental painting 50 x 96 in. entitled Café, Friday Morning, Querétaro, Mexico, which continues the artist’s series of paintings inspired by the architecture of cities in Mexico. The exhibition includes two more monumental paintings in the series, which he began in 2020: Botica, Querétaro, Mexico (2021, 42 x 78 in.) and Coyoacán, Mexico City (2023, 50 x 60 in.), the first of several paintings in progress in which the Lyons moves toward squarer formats. A group of five smaller paintings includes one in the Mexico series, Saturday Morning, Querétaro, Mexico, (2020, 14 x 26 in.) and two architectural paintings which pre-figure the disciplined compositions of the Mexico series, building facades shown straight on over cobbled streets and sidewalks: Providence RI (2019, 14 x 24 in.) and Department Store (2018, 14 x 24 in.). The fifth in this group, I-90, Natick, Massachusetts (2018, 14 x 24 in.), emphasizes the surrealist dimension to Lyons’s work and the degree of intention and control with which Lyons renders perspective in his paintings of architecture and the built environment, even when the perspective appears straightforward. Complementing the architectural paintings are two nocturnes, Milky Way (2014, 14 x 24 in.), and a superb example of Lyons’s earlier work, Elements (2004, 36 x 72 in.). Rounding out the exhibition is the remarkable Threshold (2019, 36 x 60 in.), whose intense colors and luminescent storm clouds, hovering between metaphor and depiction, invoke feelings of sublime awe at vast and strange celestial power.

For passes to the fair, please contact the gallery.

Seven additional paintings are in Southampton and may be viewed with notice at the fair or outside of the fair:

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.

We will be in Booth A1, which is in the corner to your left immediately as you enter the fair.

Please return to this page soon for further information about the fair and what we will be showing in our booth.

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.

This exhibition features work by Peter Lyons, Zygmund Jankowski, Diane Ayott, Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Timothy Harney, Ruth Mordecai, Ed Touchette, and Aron Leaman, and the Gallery is very pleased to introduced ceramic sculptures by Gloucester artist Andy Matlow.

The Gallery will host a reception in celebration of the artists participating in the exhibition on Saturday, July 9, 5–7pm.

Selected works in the exhibition are shown below.