Painter living and working in Queens, NY
STATEMENT
My most recent work draws inspiration from quiet moments spent in urban landscapes. Source material originates from everyday experiences, both remembered and observed. Using this combination, I create abstract compositions using shapes and colors pulled from these landscapes. What emerges is a pattern of light and dark hues intended to evoke a particular moment. Details are edited out or invented as the painting progresses, unified by a color palette chosen to reflect a specific mood. The end result aims to recall a familiar landscape while distorting it into an abstract arrangement of architectural fragments.
INSTAGRAM: @curleymatt_
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EDUCATION
BA Art (Painting), Salem State University, Salem, MA
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Blue, Cambridge Art Association @ University Place, Cambridge, MA, juried by Abigail Ogilvy
2021
Groove Gallery, Winfisky Gallery, Salem, MA
Groove, ReachArts, Swampscott, MA
2019
Small and Smaller, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, juried by Heather Bhandari
Love Triangle, presented by Deep Space Gallery and 1MillionDiamonds, Jersey City, NJ
Light vs. Dark, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, juried by Ruth Erickson
22nd Annual Regional Juried Show, Newburyport Arts Association, Newburyport, MA, juried by Christine McCarthy
The Freedom of Abstraction, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, juried by Julia Halperin
Small Works Salon 2019: Interior Spaces, Chandler Gallery at Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA, juried by Hilary Tait Norod
2018
Art of Boundless Expression, ReachArts, Swampscott, MA
Art@Freepoint x Maud Morgan Arts, Freepoint Hotel, Cambridge, MA
2014
4th Annual Small Works Exhibition, Porter Mill Studios, Beverly, MA
ArtBox Salem, MA (ongoing public art)
2013
3rd Annual Small Works Exhibition, Porter Mill Studios, Beverly, MA
Honors in Art: An Exhibition of Paintings by Matt Curley, Winfisky Gallery, Salem, MA (solo)
Student Art Awards Exhibition Winfisky Gallery at Salem State University, Salem, MA
2012
Wormhole Gallery Presents… Group Exhibition, Wormhole Gallery, Salem, MA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Presidential Creativity Award, Salem State University
Student Artistic Development Grant, Salem State University