Looking Up – Exhibition by Matthew Hall
Date and Address: April 24-May 23, 2021Artwork by Matthew Hall At 3rd Street Gallery,610 S. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122Gallery Hours:Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pmBy Appointment: use the
Exhibitions & Artwork
Artist Statement
I am interested in narrative. Specifically what is inferred when we have only a limited amount of information to discern what has transpired. Within my work, I choose small moments–which I have observed–and then combine them to create a narrative flow. More and more these groupings happen in a collection of small works. The gestural form in my drawings functions as a separation from the experience, used to reinterpret the experience both as I see it, and within my use of the image as a visual narrative element. This style of drawing that interprets the world as momentary in nature, creates an expression of situation by taking only small highlights. These small pieces of a moment demonstrate the idiosyncratic pieces of moments, rather than describe the specifics of the visual experience.
Major Exhibitions
Pre-Sentimental
Exhibition Statement This body of work that has developed through the experience of adopting a new city, building a home, and what continues to resonate
Fabricating Nostalgia
Exhibition Statement Fabricating Nostalgia is a body of work that has developed through the experience of adopting a new city, building a home, and what
I crawled inside the book and made it my home
The title of this exhibition reflects on the journey I made during my two years at Penn State. As an artist I spent my two
Homages – Past Influence
Homages: Past Influence Group, Juried Exhibition with guest juror Brooke Seidelmann October 2012Target Art GalleryTorpedo FactoryAlexandria, VA Matthew Hall – Recipient of the Juror’s Award
CV & History
Awards & Residencies
2020
Grant Recipient of the COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL – a joint effort of The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund
2017
InLiquid Grants – Supply Microgrant awarded for Pre-Sentimental
2013
Vermont Studio Center Residency – Partial Fellowship Awarded
2012
Best in Show: Homage: Past Influences. Target Gallery, Juror: Brooke Seidleman
Penn State Graduate Research Exhibition: Second Place – Fine Arts
2011
Graduate Assitantship: Pennsylvania State University
Bibliography
2014
InLiquid Is a Gallery on a Mission: Philadelphia Neighborhoods March 31, 2014
2014
Studio Visit Magazine: Winter ’13
2012
Juror’s Statement (Homage: Past influences): Target Art Gallery website, October ’12
loveDANCEmore Cover: loveDANCEmore a performance jornal Spring ’12
Zoller Gallery presenting Penn State students’ work: Daily Colligian, University Park, PA
2011
loveDANCEmore Cover: loveDANCEmore a performance jornal Fall ’12
New-Fashioned Pierpont: City Weekly
Gray Wall Gallery: Group Show: City Weekly
2010
Gallery Stroll – SLUG Magazine
2009
SLAC’s Salon 2010 Links Visual Art With Theater: Salt Lake Tribune
Exhibition History
2021
Looking Up – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA – Solo Show – postponed, COVID-19
2020
Embodiment:Figure In Art – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
2019
All Together Now – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Winter Blues – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Inside-Outside – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
2018
Last Impressions – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
2017
Pre-Sentimental – Penn State Art Alley – State College, PA – Solo Show
Fabricating Nostalgia – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA – Solo Show
Art for the Cash Poor 2017 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
2016
Independant Rock Invitational, Independant Rock – Philadelphia, PA
Affordable art show – Independant Rock – Philadelphia, PA
All Together Now – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
InLiquid Benefit 2016 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Art for the Cash Poor 2016 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
2015
InLiquid Benefifteen – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Art for the Cash Poor 15 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
2014
Fragments – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA – Solo Show
InLiquid Benefit v.15 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Art for the Cash Poor 14 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Moment & Line – InLiquid @ Engagement Studios – Philadelphia, PA
Outside the Margin Book Arts Exhibition – Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Springs, MD
POST – 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Paper Works – Art Dept. – Philadelphia, PA
Art For the Cash Poor 15 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
InLiquid Benefit v.14 – InLiquid @ Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA
85 Years, 85 Artists: Menlo College – Atherton, CA
2013
Member Show: InLiquid, Second State Press, PPAC – Crane Arts Building – Philadelphia, PA
I crawled inside the book and made it my home. – Edwin W. Zoller Gallery – State College, PA
Novice Oculi – Crane Arts Building – Philadelphia, PA, Curator: Kimberly Camp
Pancakes and Booze – Ruba Club – Philadelphia, PA
2012
Homage: Past Influences – Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA – Selected for Juror’s Prize
Plant to Print – Borland Gallery – State College, PA
Second Helping – Edwin W. Zoller Gallery – State College, PA
Committing Humor – Borland Gallery – State College, PA
Graduate Research Exhibition – Hub Roberson Gallery – University Park, PA
Difficult Differences – State Theatre – State College, PA
The New Sauce – Edwin W. Zoller Gallery – State College, PA
2011
Unearthing the Narrative in Art Today – The 23rd Atmosphere Group Gallery – Chicago, IL
January Group Show – Gray Wall Gallery – Salt Lake City, UT
May Group Show – Gray Wall Gallery – Salt Lake City, UT
2010
Transgressions/Transmutations the Book Rejiggered – The 23rd Atmosphere Group Gallery – Chicago, IL
Salon 2010 – Salt Lake Acting Company – Salt Lake City, UT
Grand Opening Show – Gray Wall Gallery – Salt Lake City, UT
2009
Signed and Numbered – Salt Lake City, UT
2008
Poems – Cafe Velo – Salt Lake City, UT
