BRANCHES (Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, 2021-2023). Inquiries with trees. When the woodcutter enters the forest the trees all murmur the handle of the axe is one of us. — Aesop I live in Somerville, Massachusetts, one of the most densely populated urban areas in New England. Most days during the pandemic I have calmed…
I feel very fortunate to have my work published in the Institute of Network Culture’s PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT (2022) INC Zine #4 PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT Edited by Dunja Nešović The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the…
MATTHEW SWARTS + DEAR DAVE, (ISSUE 28) “Matthew Swarts has engaged in the neurology of networked computing and photography, warping information and idling in digitized distortions and chromatic discord,” writes Stephen Frailey (EDITOR, DEAR DAVE,). “The work reveals a romanticism that seems atypical for an involvement with technology. The photographs are a lattice of powdery…
Delighted to among such amazing company in Der Greif: A Process 2.0: DER GREIF has been invited by Lars Willumeit, curator of the Krakow Photomonth 2016 Main Program – »Crisis? What Crisis?!« – to perform A Process 2.0 during the opening weekend at the festival centre. A Process 2.0 questions photography in its digital form as a distinct medium,…
My most sincere thanks to Lisa Hostetler, Curator-in-charge, Department of Photography, at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, for including five pieces from The Alternatives in her upcoming exhibition “A Matter of Memory”. (October 22, 2016–January 29, 2017, in the Museum’s Main Galleries). I will look forward to posting more about this exhibition as the date…
Metropolitan Picture Framing recently interviewed me for their informative artist blog. I cannot thank Metroframe.com enough for the rapid but expert fabrication of my frames for Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at MIAMI PROJECT 2014. The craftsmanship and attention to detail is apparent in each hand-made frame. If you are looking for an elegant, beautifully crafted wooden frame…
Delighted to announce my first place selection by Ruben Natal San Miguel in RIPE art gallery’s WHATISAPORTRAIT? exhibition opening this Saturday, December 13, 2014. Special thanks to the tireless and fearless team of Ruben and RIPE’s owner, Cherie Via Rexer! From the gallery: “Ripe Art Gallery’s First Juried Photography Exhibition was an Open Call for…
I am thrilled and full of gratitude to have been invited by Eliot Dudik, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary, to participate in BREAKING GROUND, a blockbuster exhibition of photography featuring 110 national and international photographic artists! from the text accompanying the exhibition: On this 175th anniversary of the invention…
Very grateful for the kind and thoughtful words of artist and writer Pelle Cass about BETH for featureshoot.com: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/07/portrait-of-partnership-a-photographers-homage-to-a-failed-relationship-nsfw/ “A woman stands against a gray sky, the low light of the sinking sun glints off her glasses. Her hair is in a bun. She is attractive, but not conventionally beautiful. It’s the same person in…
I have been reworking images from the BETH series. All new images are scalable without a loss in resolution to 40 inches in width. Have a look: http://matthewswarts.com/projects/beth/
Delighted to announce I’m falling fast for a new photographic project about Somerville, Massachusetts, where I’ve lived since 2002. Please have a look at http://cityofconcern.org
Delighted to be featured on SFMOMA’s curated tumblr: http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/42614461028/submission-matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach
Delighted to be featured on emptystretch.com and pinned down mercilessly (and quite beautifully) by The Faceless Kid. Sincerest thanks to Jordan Swartz. http://emptystretch.com/2013/02/matthew-swarts/
So pleased to be featured on the Landscape Stories (Italy) blog today: Check it out: http://landscape-stories.tumblr.com/post/36583467961/ls-09-adolescence-submissions-open-water-by
Sincerest thanks to Tom Griggs of Fototazo.com for asking me to write about my work in The Image, where photographers discuss a single image in relation to a larger body of work. Check it out: http://www.fototazo.com/2012/11/the-image-matthew-swarts-untitled-self.html
Honored and excited to be featured in Fototazo’s gallery section: http://www.fototazo.com/2012/09/fototazo-115-matthew-swarts.html Sincerest thanks to Tom Griggs!