Click here to read Steven La Rose's blog about Picton's work
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Click here to read Molly Lori' Review of Volumetric Landscape in The Seattle Weekly
Click here to read Emily Hall's Review in The Stranger
MATTHEW C. PICTON
Born, London, England. 1960. resident in the United States since 1990
EDUCATION
The London School of Economics and Political Science 1978-81 Degree. BSc (Econ) Government with honors
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Byron C. Cohen Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR
BAR Architects, San Francisco, CA
Toomey Tourell, San Francisco, CA
Davis and Cline, Ashland, OR
2006
Volumetric Drawing, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2005
Toomey Tourell, San Francisco, CA
Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2004
Studio Lo Do, Phoenix, AZ
Damien B Contemporary Art, Solo show, Miami, FL
2003
Scope Art Fair, Solo show with Toomey Tourell, Miami, FL
Cracked Lakebed Sculptures, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2002
Metro Sculptures, Howard House, Seattle, WA
The Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2000
Davis and Cline, Ashland, OR
The Center for Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
The Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
1999
Davis & Cline, Ashland, OR
1998
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The flat files, Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, NY
Collage, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Mapping, Zoom plus minus, Arena, Santa Monica, CA (with Mary Hambleton, Joyce Kozloff, Nina Katchadourian, Matthew Cusick, Lordy Rodriguez)
Model Behaviour, Organism, Portland, OR
Lines in the Earth, Sun Valley Center For the Arts, ID
Landscape to the Limit, 2nd St Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (with Ingrid Calame and Tara Donovan - curated by Jonathon Stuhlman)
2005
Fresh Trouble, Portland, OR, curated by Jeff Jahn
Urban Jungle, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, curated by Yuri Psinakis
30 ways to make a painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2004
Miniature Worlds, The Brewery Art center, Los Angeles, curated by Noel Korten
Big, Installation at TERRA, San Francisco, curated by Stephen Tourell
Installation at The Trans America Pyramid, SF, CA, curated by Art Assets
2003
The Core Show, Portland, OR. curated by Jeff Jahn
“Indoor Outdoor” Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Best Coast, Portland, OR, Curated by Jeff Jahn
2002
Northwest Documenta 1, Salem Art Barn
New Sculpture, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
New Sculpture, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, CA
2001
The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA. The Northwest Annual, Curated by Sue Spaid, Juror's award winner
Line Form color, Howard House, Seattle, WA
Consolidated Works, Seattle WA, commissioned installation, “Negative Space” curated by Meg Shiffler
Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2000
“2000” group show, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Texas National, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX, Curated by Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth
1999
Equinox (regional show of contemporary art), Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
Wittman Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Ballard & Fetheston, Seattle, WA
Art Slate 99, Condon, OR
1998
A regional show of contemporary art, curated by Greg Bell and Willem Volkersz 5 Abstract Painters. Lindenberg Gallery, New York, NY
8 Painters, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco. CA
1996
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994
Play, Workspace Gallery, Portland, OR
Sacred Cows, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Richard Speer, Art Ltd, "Material Maps", November 2007
Victoria Blake, The Oregonian, Review, October 2007
Richard Speer, Willamette Week, review, October 2007
John Motley, Portland Mercury, review, October 2007
Theresa Berminster, Kansas City Star, review, February 22, 2007
2006
Molly Lori, Seattle Weekly, May 3
2005
Katie Kurtz review, SF Bay Guardian, Sep 21 2005
Kenneth Baker, “Creativity Comes Slipping through the cracks”, San Francisco Chronicle, Sep 10, 2005
Christopher Knight, “Composition from decomposition”, Los Angeles Times, June 10,
Michael Ned Holte, Catalogue Essay, May 2005
Prudence F Roberts, Artweek, April 2005
Richard Speer, The Willamete Week, Feb 9 2005
2004
Alfredo Triff, The Miami New Times, Sep 30 2004
2003
Allan, Lois. “'Core Sample' Throughout Portland.” Artweek, Dec. 2003- Jan. 2004 Vol. 34 Issue 10.
Speer, Richard. “Symbiont/ Synthetic.” Willamette Weekly. Dec. 31, 2003.
Hackett, Regina. “A New Breed of Abstract Artists is Staking out Personal Space.”
Seattle Post Intelligencer. Feb. 14, 2003. Pg. 18
Hall, Emily. “Coastal Climate: Jeff Jahn's Dare.” The Stranger. May 29- Jun. 4, 2003.
2002
Hall, Emily. “Matthew Picton”. The Stranger, Seattle, Feb. 14 - 20, 2002 Vol. 11 No. 22
2001
Fahey, Anna. “Matthew Picton”. The Seattle Weekly, November 22, 2001, Pacific Northwest Annual
Baker, Kenneth. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 14, 2001
Hackett, Regina. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, May 25, 2001
Hall, Emily. "From the Dust", The Stranger, Seattle, May 24, 2001
2000
Dunham, Mike. The Anchorage Daily News, July 7, 2000
Picton, Matthew. "Drawings", Zyzzyva, April 2000, West Coast Literary Magazine
Allan, Lois. Artweek, April 2000, Vol 31 , issue 4
Row, D.K. “Tape-Made Tapestries.” The Oregonian, February 11, 2000
Lindenberg,Ted. “Matthew Picton: Surface Tape Recordings” Preview: The Gallery Guide, February/March 2000
COLLECECTIONS
The De Young Museum, San Francisco
The Achenbach Drawing Collection, San Francisco
Pan Pacific hotels Collection