I am deeply honored to have work from both BETH and The Alternatives in “The Relationship Show” at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver)! Special thanks to Patti Hallock and Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles for making this exciting exhibition happen! From the exhibition catalog: MAUREEN DRENNAN • LAURA BETH REESE • MATTHEW SWARTS • ALLISON…
So proud and honored to have work going up as part of Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18th-20th 2015. Sincere and sustained thanks to Paul Kopeikin!
Delighted to have work from both BETH and The Alternatives on view at Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at the Seattle Art Fair! Special thanks to Paul Kopeikin, for tirelessly and steadily championing my work!
Very excited to announce the publication of my work in GUP Magazine #45 Evolution out of The Netherlands. Special and sincere thanks to Katherine October Matthews for discovering my work and publishing this portfolio and interview! From the supporting text for GUP #45/EVOLUTION: “Change alone is unchanging,” spoke the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. And so it…
Special thanks to Rasmus Vasli for discovering and graciously publishing my work this morning on Sweden’s Floret magazine. It is a wonderful honor to have the opportunity to bring Scandinavian audiences to my work! http://floret.se/matthew-swarts-beth/
It is an incredible honor (and a delight!) to be featured on Lenscratch today! My sincere and special thanks to the ever-incredible Aline Smithson! http://lenscratch.com/2015/04/matthew-swarts-beth-and-the-alternatives/ “Matthew Swarts has a current exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles that runs through April 18th featuring two projects, Beth and Alternatives. With both projects, Matthew reconsiders photographic…
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Incredibly honored to be included amongst photographic educators in the New England area showing work in Paula Tognarelli’s and Frances Jakubek’s [Photo]gogues 2015:, part of the FLASH FORWARD BOSTON festival! Dates Apr 24–May 15, 2015 Hours Mon-Thurs: 10 AM–9 PM Fri-Sat: 10 AM–9:30 PM Sun: 10 AM–9 PM Location Lafayette City Center Passageway (links Macy’s…
I am thrilled to announce my first exhibition with Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles): Matthew Swarts: PROCESSING (Beth and the Alternatives), March 7th through April 18th, 2015. My most sincere thanks to Paul Kopeikin, whose collaboration and support for this work have made all things newly possible! Friends and followers near Los Angeles, please join me at Kopeikin…
Delighted to be included in SLIDELUCK CHICAGO (IV); Special thanks to Andrew McFarland! Matthew Swarts from Slideluck on Vimeo. From the announcement text: Brace yourself, Chicago! Slideluck is returning just in time for Valentine’s Day. Join us for another night of food, music, fun, and art on Friday, February 13th, 2015, at The Promontory in…
I am incredibly honored to be a part of Jon Feinstein’s ground-shaking exhibition: RADICAL COLOR @ Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon. Opening Friday, February 6th, 2015 and on view until March 30th, 2015. From the essay that accompanies the exhibition: Radical Color: A Continuous Black Hole Color photography and its relationship to the…
matthewswartswired Delighted and very honored to have my work featured on WIRED today. My most sincere thanks to Jakob Schiller (and Pete Brook) for writing about and believing in my work! http://www.wired.com/2015/01/matthew-swarts-beth-the-alternatives/ matthewswartswiredfeature
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…
Curiosity has me experimenting with a book form for BETH:
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 belatedly learn that I am a finalist for the ONWARD Compe ’14 Exhibition at Project Basho in Philadelphia, PA! Exhibition opening at Project Basho on March 1, 2014!
Very honored to have Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012 highlighted on Michael Sargeant’s excellent UK based fine-art photography website: SHOW.ME.PICTURES!
Really delighted to discover the discussion about Joerg Colberg’s musings on portraiture (and BETH) continues on APhotoEditor. http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/30/what-makes-a-great-portrait-is-your-willingness-to-take-what-you-want/ Special thanks to Rob Haggart for bouncing this out!
The conversation about BETH continues today on Fototazo! Special thanks to Tom Griggs for his interest and generosity and compelling questions about the work. Please take a look! http://www.fototazo.com/2013/10/portfolio-matthew-swarts-beth.html
BETH and I are incredibly honored and thrilled to be featured on Jörg Colberg’s celebrated Conscientious Photography Magazine today: “Here is Beth, photographed by her partner, Matthew Swarts. Of Beth we, meaning everybody except those who know this young woman in person, have a set of photographs and nothing else. What are we going to make of…
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Delighted to be featured on SFMOMA’s curated tumblr: http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/42614461028/submission-matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach
Honored to have been selected by Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), to be a part of this exciting exhibition at Texas Woman’s University. Love this image of guests in front of Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012! http://www.twu.edu/visual-arts/joyce-elaine-grant.asp http://www.lightleaked.com/2013/02/curator-sarah-kennel.html?spref=fb
Happy to be on Tumblr Open Arts! http://tumblropenarts.tumblr.com/post/42696993778/matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach-island-new
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
Incredibly honored and thrilled to be featured on Flakphoto.com this morning for the second time. Sincerest and warmest thanks to Andy Adams! http://flakphoto.com/photo/matthew-swarts-beth
Matthew Swarts, Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012. Delighted to be featured in the ‘One Picture/One Paragraph’ section of Mark Alice Durant’s excellent new site, Saint Lucy! http://saint-lucy.com/one-picture-one-paragraph/matthew-swarts/
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!