Artist Statement 

Making the most of Snap Decisions is an exhibition of paintings created from the 4 x 6 inch photographs taken by the artist’s younger self. The images are accidental compositions unwittingly created at various stages of the artist’s life. 

Making the most of Snap Decisions is the result of digging and sorting through boxes and piles of hundreds of moments of suspended animation. It is part of an on-going exploration of collecting and hording of the incidental random moments in photographs. The resulting images are painted versions of the original youthful photographs contemplated and filtered though the painter’s eyes and hands. 

Making the most of Snap Decisions is an exhibition of the ordered outcome of the cumulative imagery. The paintings are forced to relate to a common horizon line, which is the thread tying the work together and imposing a version of order. 

 

 

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Solo Exhibitions:

2009                         Making the Most of Snap Decisions, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, On. 

2006                         (almost) everything, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2003                         Keeping a Distance, Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2002                         November, The Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario.

2001                         Stills, PROPELLER Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario.

2000                         Hiding Place, Hamilton and Region Arts Council, Hamilton, Ontario.

                                Physiognomy, New Space, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

1999                         Drawing a Crowd, PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

1998                         Inaction Figures, PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009                        NEXT art fair, Chicago, USA.

2007                        Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA.

2006                        Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

                               Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA.

2005                        Williamsburg Square Foot, New York, USA.

                               Square Foot, Affordable Art Fair, New York, New York.

                               Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2002                        Whole, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Art Strikes Back, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2001                       Standard, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

                               Drawing 2001(curators Dr. Katherine Lochnan, Stuart Reid, Sally Wildman), John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Killing Time, (curator Gregory Klages), PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

2000                       Loop + 1, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Exile on James Street, Hamilton, Ontario.

                              Alternating Currents , McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario.

1999                       Ritual Rhythm & Repeated Actions, (curator Virginia MacDonnell), PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario.

                              SPF 30, MEG Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (3 person exhibition).

                  re:Production, (invitational slideshow - curator Don Simmons), The Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario.

                              McMaster Curated Show, Henderson Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.

1998                       Screen 2, (curator Stuart Reid) , PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Enter, PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

1997                       Vernissage, Vaughan Estate, Toronto, Ontario.

                              Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario.

1996                       Box, Ontario College of art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.

                              25 Over 1 Bridge 2 Sides, OCAD Studio, Florence, Italy.

Reviews and publications

2008 Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, Toronto, 2008.

2000 Cable 14, Hamilton, Ontario, April 2000, ‘Alternating Currents’

The Hamilton Spectator, ‘Weekend Arts’, Hamilton, Ontario, Saturday, May 6, 2000

Regina Haggo, ‘It’s the energizer’. W6

1999 Artsbeat, Hamilton, Ontario, October-November 1999. (cover)

Ritual Rhythm & Repeated Actions, Toronto, Ontario, October 1999.

Virginia MacDonnell, Propeller annual curated show- Exhibition Catalogue.

Artfocus, Toronto, Ontario, Fall 1999. Elizabeth Fearon, ‘SPF30 @MEG Gallery’. 8

The Globe and Mail, ‘Gallery Going’, Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, August 28, 1999.

Gary Michael Dault, ‘SPF 30 at MEG Gallery’. C10

City TV, Toronto, Ontario, Saturday August 14, 1999. ‘SPF 30’

NOW, Toronto, Ontario, August 12-18, 1999.

Si Si Penaloza, ‘Brash Band of painters soaked by the sun’. 74

Toronto Life Magazine, Toronto, Ontario, August 1999. Betty Ann Jordan,‘ SPF 30’. 28

1998 Screen 2, Toronto, Ontario, October, 1998.

Stuart Reid, Propeller annual curated show- Exhibition Catalogue.

 

Education

2000 Bachelor of Arts – Honours Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

1997 AOCAD Honours: Drawing and Painting Program, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.    

1996 Off Campus Program, Ontario College of Art, Florence, Italy                                              

1991 – 1992 Architecture / Art History: Carleton University

                   

                                    

Contact               schofield.matt@gmail.com

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