Zygmund Jankowski – Matthew Swift Gallery

Flower Power

Matthew Swift — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present Flower Power, a group exhibition featuring representations of flowers and abstractions which make us think of flowers.

Selected works in the exhibition are shown below. Easily portable works may be taken home when purchased.

More Houses

Matthew Swift — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Whether you’ve seen them all but want to see more, or the housing shortage in Gloucester has got you down, we are pleased to offer the solution: More Houses.

Up to Eleven

Matthew Swift — Fri, 05 May 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present Up to Eleven, a group exhibition celebrating the commencement of the Gallery’s 11th year and the formal reopening of its Main Street location after a pause of several months.

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.

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2023

Matthew Swift — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is delighted to be exhibiting at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2023 art fair, which opens in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a private preview on Thursday, March 23, 2023, and continues with public hours Friday – Sunday, March 24–26. For passes, please contact the gallery.

Growth

Matthew Swift — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:00:00 +0000

This exhibition is evolving from the previous Right Here on Paper. We are bringing in some art showing trees and flowers and other works which suggest growth.

Right Here Not on Paper

Matthew Swift — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Right Here Not on Paper is a companion exhibition to Right Here on Paper on view in the Vault Room. Works not on paper depicting Gloucester MA and environs by Peter Lyons, Patti Sullivan, Zygmund Jankowski, Eileen Mueller, Ken Riaf and Roger Martin will be on view.

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.

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.

Explicit Color

Matthew Swift — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 22 paintings and sculptures chosen for the centrality of color in the work. The exhibition’s title reflects the fact that many of the titles of individual works refer explicitly to colors within them. Other titles refer indirectly to colors, and still others lack explicit titles but repay explicit attention to the dimension of color, whether bold or subtle.

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.

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.

Still Figuring It Out: Human Figures and ?

Matthew Swift — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Matthew Swift Gallery is very pleased to present Still Figuring It Out: Human Figures, an exhibition of contemporary figurative art selected and presented to illustrate why and how figurative art has come to the forefront of the art world in the last ten years and continues to gain more attention and interest from viewers, critics, and collectors.