Currently on View / Fall Semester / August 23-Sept 21, 2019
IMPRESSIONS
Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT
Featuring new work from Montana Printmakers along with selected works from MATRIX Press.
Gallery Talk by James Bailey
August 29th, 5:00 pm.
IMPRESSIONS
Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT
Featuring new work from Montana Printmakers along with selected works from MATRIX Press.
Gallery Talk by James Bailey
August 29th, 5:00 pm.
MATRIX Press Exhibitions
As part of its educational goal, MATRIX Press maintains an active print collection of works by visiting artists for classroom use, exhibitions and sales to maintain the print studio. MATRIX Press has organized several exhibitions in recent years, including:
Upcoming 2019
MATRIX Press: 20 Years of Collaborations / Jundt Art Museum
The Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University will be presenting a 20 year retrospective exhibition of prints created at MATRIX Press. The exhibition will include 100+ prints along with some of the working proofs, tools, printing plates and photos of the artists at work.
2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction
First Friday Reception with the Artists. (Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock, Duane Slick)
May 4th, Gallery talk at 7:00 pm.
Missoula Art Museum
May 5th, Roundtable discussion with the Artists.
11:00 am at the MAM.
2018
Contemporary Voices Lecture Series/James Bailey
Missoula Art Museum, April 14, @ 7:00 pm
James will be talking about the 20 year history of Matrix Press, with special insight into the four recent residencies resulting in The Shape of Things exhibition currently on view in the Lynda M. Frost Gallery of Contemporary American Indian Art.
2018
Continuum
Salish Kootenai College
March 19-May 31, 2018
Pablo, Mont. — The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) and Salish Kootenai College (SKC) are collaborating to exhibit works from MAM’s Contemporary American Indian Art Collection at the Three Woodcocks building on the SKC campus. The exhibition is guest curated by University of Montana art history graduate student Nikolyn Garner.
Garner is an SKC alumna and worked closely with SKC Fine Arts Department Head Cameron Decker. Through this exhibition, Garner hopes to increase access to contemporary American Indian artwork for students at the College as well as for the community. “It is my hope that seeing the artwork that the students are studying will provide inspiration and motivation for these future artists,” says Garner. “The beautiful exhibition space at Salish Kootenai College provides a wonderful opportunity to share artwork from the Missoula Art Museum’s permanent collection. Continuum reflects the continually developing, adapting, and exploratory voices of contemporary American Indian artists.” The exhibition also includes loans of artwork from SKC’s permanent collection and from MATRIX Press at the University of Montana.
2018
James Todd/Currently on View
May, 2018
Fine Arts Building (2nd floor) @ The University of Montana
James Todd is the featured artist for this years Last Best Print Fest Bingo organized by the ZACC.
As part of it, they will be featuring Jim Todd Bingo with various prints by James Todd being shown at the below listed venues, during the Month of May.
Matrix Press will be exhibiting his suite of The Seven Deadly Sins.
2018
Miriam Schapiro: Anonymous Was a Woman
Missoula Art Museum
February 15-May 19, 2018
Two suites of prints created by Miriam Schapiro in collaboration with Matrix Press.
2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction
March 2, 2018-July 29th, 2018
Missoula Art Museum
In 2016 the Missoula Art Museum approached Matrix Press with the idea of collaborating on a project to highlight the work of contemporary Native American artists.
With the generous support of a grant from the Warhol Foundation, MAM and Matrix Press have invited four native artists to create a series of prints. Each artist invited came in for a week-long residency and worked closely with UM students to create a body of work. The upcoming exhibition in 2018 will be the culmination of this partnership. Artists included in the exhibition will include: Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock and Duane Slick.
2015
MATRIX Press: New Editions 2012-2014
This exhibition highlights recent new editions created through MATRIX Press.
Artists Included in the Exhibition include:
Brad Allen, Jason Clark, Joe Feddersen, Tyler Krasowski, Sean Starwars and Melanie Yazzie.
2015
Melanie Yazzie: Strong Circles
This exhibition highlights a series of 25 new monotypes created by artist Melanie Yazzie, in June 2014 at MATRIX Press.
2013-2014
MATRIX Press: Master Prints.
This traveling exhibition included approximately 40 prints created through MATRIX Press, by nationally recognized artists over the course of the past twelve years. The prints from the MATRIX Press collection represent a broad range of artistic and technical approaches to the print.
Artists represented in this exhibition included those who have continued the activist tradition of printmaking such as Richard Mock, best known for his cutting political prints that appeared in the New York Times Op-Ed section from 1980-1996 and Miriam Schapiro who was one of the pioneering artists in the Feminist Art movement to Tom Huck, known for his intricately cut woodcuts inspired by the likes of Albrecht Durer. In addition, Colorful abstractions by Arizona artist and past UM alumni John Armstrong show a softer approach to the medium with his whimsical forms, which often reference the landscape. Chicago based artist Tony Fitzpatrick utilizes 50’s style tattoo art in his color etchings, while Canadian Artist Peter Von Tiesenhausen’s boat forms float mysteriously on metallic fields. -James Bailey, Director, MATRIX Press
This exhibition travelled to the following venues:
-Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT
-Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, MT
-Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispel, MT
-The University of Montana-Western, Dillion, MT
-The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2014
Print Assistant Exhibition:
When the MATRIX Press: Master Prints exhibition was shown at The University of Montana, it had an additional companion exhibition included which featured selected prints by past MATRIX Press print assistants. This exhibition included works by: Jason Clark, Ryan Lindburg, Kaya Wielopolski, Tyler Krasowski and Keith Miller.
Upcoming 2019
MATRIX Press: 20 Years of Collaborations / Jundt Art Museum
The Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University will be presenting a 20 year retrospective exhibition of prints created at MATRIX Press. The exhibition will include 100+ prints along with some of the working proofs, tools, printing plates and photos of the artists at work.
2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction
First Friday Reception with the Artists. (Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock, Duane Slick)
May 4th, Gallery talk at 7:00 pm.
Missoula Art Museum
May 5th, Roundtable discussion with the Artists.
11:00 am at the MAM.
2018
Contemporary Voices Lecture Series/James Bailey
Missoula Art Museum, April 14, @ 7:00 pm
James will be talking about the 20 year history of Matrix Press, with special insight into the four recent residencies resulting in The Shape of Things exhibition currently on view in the Lynda M. Frost Gallery of Contemporary American Indian Art.
2018
Continuum
Salish Kootenai College
March 19-May 31, 2018
Pablo, Mont. — The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) and Salish Kootenai College (SKC) are collaborating to exhibit works from MAM’s Contemporary American Indian Art Collection at the Three Woodcocks building on the SKC campus. The exhibition is guest curated by University of Montana art history graduate student Nikolyn Garner.
Garner is an SKC alumna and worked closely with SKC Fine Arts Department Head Cameron Decker. Through this exhibition, Garner hopes to increase access to contemporary American Indian artwork for students at the College as well as for the community. “It is my hope that seeing the artwork that the students are studying will provide inspiration and motivation for these future artists,” says Garner. “The beautiful exhibition space at Salish Kootenai College provides a wonderful opportunity to share artwork from the Missoula Art Museum’s permanent collection. Continuum reflects the continually developing, adapting, and exploratory voices of contemporary American Indian artists.” The exhibition also includes loans of artwork from SKC’s permanent collection and from MATRIX Press at the University of Montana.
2018
James Todd/Currently on View
May, 2018
Fine Arts Building (2nd floor) @ The University of Montana
James Todd is the featured artist for this years Last Best Print Fest Bingo organized by the ZACC.
As part of it, they will be featuring Jim Todd Bingo with various prints by James Todd being shown at the below listed venues, during the Month of May.
Matrix Press will be exhibiting his suite of The Seven Deadly Sins.
2018
Miriam Schapiro: Anonymous Was a Woman
Missoula Art Museum
February 15-May 19, 2018
Two suites of prints created by Miriam Schapiro in collaboration with Matrix Press.
2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction
March 2, 2018-July 29th, 2018
Missoula Art Museum
In 2016 the Missoula Art Museum approached Matrix Press with the idea of collaborating on a project to highlight the work of contemporary Native American artists.
With the generous support of a grant from the Warhol Foundation, MAM and Matrix Press have invited four native artists to create a series of prints. Each artist invited came in for a week-long residency and worked closely with UM students to create a body of work. The upcoming exhibition in 2018 will be the culmination of this partnership. Artists included in the exhibition will include: Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock and Duane Slick.
2015
MATRIX Press: New Editions 2012-2014
This exhibition highlights recent new editions created through MATRIX Press.
Artists Included in the Exhibition include:
Brad Allen, Jason Clark, Joe Feddersen, Tyler Krasowski, Sean Starwars and Melanie Yazzie.
2015
Melanie Yazzie: Strong Circles
This exhibition highlights a series of 25 new monotypes created by artist Melanie Yazzie, in June 2014 at MATRIX Press.
2013-2014
MATRIX Press: Master Prints.
This traveling exhibition included approximately 40 prints created through MATRIX Press, by nationally recognized artists over the course of the past twelve years. The prints from the MATRIX Press collection represent a broad range of artistic and technical approaches to the print.
Artists represented in this exhibition included those who have continued the activist tradition of printmaking such as Richard Mock, best known for his cutting political prints that appeared in the New York Times Op-Ed section from 1980-1996 and Miriam Schapiro who was one of the pioneering artists in the Feminist Art movement to Tom Huck, known for his intricately cut woodcuts inspired by the likes of Albrecht Durer. In addition, Colorful abstractions by Arizona artist and past UM alumni John Armstrong show a softer approach to the medium with his whimsical forms, which often reference the landscape. Chicago based artist Tony Fitzpatrick utilizes 50’s style tattoo art in his color etchings, while Canadian Artist Peter Von Tiesenhausen’s boat forms float mysteriously on metallic fields. -James Bailey, Director, MATRIX Press
This exhibition travelled to the following venues:
-Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT
-Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, MT
-Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispel, MT
-The University of Montana-Western, Dillion, MT
-The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2014
Print Assistant Exhibition:
When the MATRIX Press: Master Prints exhibition was shown at The University of Montana, it had an additional companion exhibition included which featured selected prints by past MATRIX Press print assistants. This exhibition included works by: Jason Clark, Ryan Lindburg, Kaya Wielopolski, Tyler Krasowski and Keith Miller.
The exhibition was a collaboration between MATRIX Press and The Gallery of Visual Arts at the University of Montana, and traveled through the MAGDA (Museum & Art Gallery Directors' Association) program to the Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT; Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, MT; Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispel, MT; The University of Montana-Western, Dillion, MT and the The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2014
Additional Exhibitions:
The Missoula Art Museum also featured an exhibition of MATRIX Press prints in it's exhibition "Recent Acquisition: MATRIX Press", October 8, 2013- February 9, 2014
Additional Exhibitions:
The Missoula Art Museum also featured an exhibition of MATRIX Press prints in it's exhibition "Recent Acquisition: MATRIX Press", October 8, 2013- February 9, 2014