Suzanne Ulrich – Matthew Swift Gallery

DIRVEN 2 ABSTRAXION

Matthew Swift — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding abstract works of art selected to illustrate and explore the variety of ways artists discover and pursue an impulse toward abstraction in their practice. The exhibition’s title is an abstraction of the title of the 1994 book Driven to Distraction by Drs. Edward Hallowell and John Ratey.

Threshold

Matthew Swift — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is delighted to present “Threshold,” an exhibition for a time of danger and transitions, on view September 5 – October 4, 2020.

Selections from the exhibition are shown in the slideshow below.

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

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.

Facing Five Years

Matthew Swift — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Trident Gallery is pleased to present Facing Five Years, a program of exhibitions and events revisiting Trident Gallery’s first half-decade years and assaying the next, and introducing new works of art, artists, gallery formats, and professional services.

In With The New

Matthew Swift — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Trident Gallery is pleased to present In with the New, an exhibition beginning Friday, January 26, 2018, and featuring new, unseen, and selected works of art by represented artists.

Museum educator Annie Storr will offer a fascinating guided session of looking at the exhibition In with the New on Sunday, January 28th, at 3:00pm. The special nature of her program brings insights to beginners and art professionals alike. The session is free, very informal, and no reservation is needed.

Opening Reception for Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich

Matthew Swift — Sat, 06 May 2017 21:00:00 +0000

On Saturday, May 6, 5–7pm, Trident Gallery will host a public reception for Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich in celebration of their exhibition Coming Round, on view May 6 – June 4, 2017.

Saturday, May 6, 10am–4pm exhibition preview, 4pm–5pm closed to set up for Opening Reception 5pm–7pm.

Coming Round

Matthew Swift — Sat, 06 May 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Trident Gallery is very pleased to present Coming Round, an exhibition of thirty exquisite mixed media paintings and collage by Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich. This exhibition aims to reveal the diversity of form, color, movement, and mood which emerges from the unity of the artists’ longstanding and closely disciplined practices of making art. Coming Round celebrates the awakening of spring within the cycle of seasons—the fertility of simple seeds, a series of songs in voices strong, calm, and loud, and the dawning of insights, which can arrive as a dream or a bullet.

Coming Round will be on view May 6 – June 4, 2017. The gallery will host an Opening Reception for the artists on Saturday, May 6, 5–7pm. The following weekend, on Saturday, May 13, at 2pm, the gallery will host a Conversation with Diane Ayott about her artistic process and recent work.

Ayott’s abstractions are luxuriously physical objects resulting from the accrual of layer after layer of paint, color, and pattern, launched by imaginative titles into the realm of language, play, and political engagement. In the opulent surfaces of Ayott’s paintings, the eye experiences depth and continual movement, both spatial and aesthetic, as the mind integrates, deconstructs, and re-integrates the parts into wholes, weaving in new experiences and feelings over time as the viewer lives with her art.

Ulrich’s small collages invoke the idea of pure design, yet they are also delicate artifacts which treasure and transform pieces of paper at a scale that implicates viewers’ deep associations with this material so ubiquitous and important to daily life.

Diane Ayott resides and maintains a studio in Salem MA and is a Professor of Art at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly MA. She is represented by Trident Gallery in Gloucester MA and by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York City and Bridgehampton NY.

Suzanne Ulrich resides in Marblehead MA and maintains a studio in Beverly MA. Her collages have been exhibited at galleries and museums in New England and nationwide. She is represented by Barbara Krakow Gallery and art consultants Andrea Marquit and Jacqueline Becker in Boston.

The work of both artists has been exhibited at galleries and museums in New England and nationwide, and is collected by prestigious private, corporate, institutional, and government collectors.