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This exhibition was conceived in 2009 as a response to a request to mount a faculty exhibition to showcase the work being produced by the faculty of the Painting Department at the Savannah Campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design. The resulting exhibition includes full time faculty, part time faculty, and visiting artists who were involved with the department during the 2008/2009 academic year.

Rather than schedule a show at a local gallery it was suggested that we attempt to find an international venue. The resulting schedule is more then we could have hoped for. This exhibition would not have happened were it not for the work of Blazo Kovacevic. His drive and determination has given us this remarkable opportunity.

Painting exhibition participants:
Adam Cvijanovic, Blazo Kovacevic, Craig Drennen, Denise Carson,
Gregory Eltringham, Laura Mosquera, Matt Blackwell, Morgan Santander, Natalija Mijatovic, Roger Walton,
Stephen Knudsen, Suzanne Jackson, Todd Schroeder.

Drawing exhibition participants:

27.3.10

Matt Blackwell

Matt Blackwell, "Lake Effect", 218.4 x 249cm, Oil on stitched and unstretched Canvas, 2001-2009.
Matt Blackwell "Imperial", 81 x 101.6cm, Oil on Canvas, 2008.

Matt Blackwell,"Chevelle", 81 x 101.6cm, Oil on Canvas, 2008.

Matt Blackwell (b. Lyons, New York, resides in Brooklyn, New York) received a B.F.A. from the Portland School of Art, Maine. He participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1980, and received a M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC. Blackwell has taught at the University of Southern Maine, Oberlin College, and currently teaches at Fairfield University, CT. In the winter of 2009 he was a visiting artist-in-residence, teaching painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, which culminated in a solo exhibition Itinerant Menu Baked n Raw at the Alexander Hall Gallery. He is represented by the Edward Thorpe Gallery from New York City, where he has an upcoming solo show in Fall 2010. Blackwell’s solo and two person exhibitions include Whoop Em Up Cindy, Over the Yonder in Minor Key, and Et Arcadia Ego, all at the Edward Thorpe Gallery; Horsepower with Savannah artist Gregory Eltringham at Gallery See, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta GA; a solo show at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and numerous others in New York and Maine. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art In America, Village Voice, and Art Papers. He has received various fellowship residencies at Yaddo, Sculpture Space in Utica, NY; Vermont Studio Center, and Triangle Arts Association.

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  1. AnonymousMarch 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM

    Mary Zacharilla Muffly (in Pgh) checked out your website. Awesome work. Sitting next to the art teacher here at my school. He, too, likes your brush strokes. Love the blues in "Chevelle." What was your inspiration for that piece?
    Tonight would have been my dream game in Big East, Syracuse v Pitt. No loser. Dream deferred. Unfortunately, it will be CT v 'Cuse, closer to your stomping ground. Go 'Cuse!!!!!!

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