Past Exhibitions
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April 7-30, 2023
MATRIX Press: Recent Collaborations ZACC, Missoula, MT MATRIX press will be exhibiting recent prints created at MATRIX press at the University of Montana covering the past five years. The exhibition features approximately 40 new works showcasing the diversity and experimentation in contemporary printmaking. Artists in the exhibition include: Brian Kelly, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Corky Clairmont, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Christa Carleton, Lillian Pitt, Tim Musso, Neal Ambrose-Smith and Marwin Begaye. A program like MATRIX Press is only as good as the talent you can acquire. I have been lucky to work with an exceptionally talented group of students over the years. I would like to personally thank the many wonderful printerns I have had the pleasure of printing with, it is only with their strong enthusiasm and commitment that has made all this possible. -James Bailey, Director, Matrix Press Print Assistants (Printerns) Jason Clark, Crystal McCallie, Dagny Walton, Orion Bos, Tanya Gardner, Allison Peschek Whitney Gardipee, Kenzie Olson, Carrie Fields, Jordan Rauk, Stella Nall, Darla Pienciak Special Thanks / To the ZACC for all their work in hosting this exhibition, and I would like to also thank the Missoula Art Museum who continues to collaborate and lend its support to MATRIX Press. To date Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum have collaborated on 15 projects, including Ka’ila Farell-Smith, Corwin Clairmont, Marwin Begaye, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Tim Musso and Lillian Pitt whose works are featured in this exhibition. |
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August 28, 2020-January 3, 2021
MATRIX Press: 20 Years of Collaboration Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA LINK TO EXHIBITION Curatorial Statement: Matrix Press has been printing and collaborating with artists for over 20 years. This retrospective exhibition includes a culmination of some 80 prints representing 26 artists created at MATRIX Press by nationally recognized artists over the course of the past twenty plus years showcasing a broad range of artistic and technical approaches to the print. All the work was printed by student assistants in collaboration with the artists and printmaking faculty at the University of Montana-Missoula. The artists selected over the years cover a wide range of ages, genders, backgrounds, experiences and artistic visions. Some had extensive printmaking backgrounds, while others were newly tuned into the medium. Some of those represented are considered pioneers and masters of their discipline. Click on the link above for more information and images of the exhibition. A beautiful full color 60 page catalog accompanies the exhibition. |
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October 3rd-October 25th, 2019
Contemporary Indigenous Voices University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT The exhibition will highlight the work of seven contemporary native artists in honor of Indigenous People's Day. These include; Melanie Yazzie (Navajo); Joe Feddersen (Colville); Sara Siestreem (Coos/Lower Umpqua); John Hitchcock (Comanche); Duane Slick (Meskwaki); Jason Clark (Creek/Algonquin) and Molly Murphy-Adams (Oglala/Lakota). The works included highlight a range of visual expressions, from large scale woodcuts talking about climate change, to lithographs expressing protest, resistance and resilience. Additional works in the exhibition explore myths and legends or investigate cultural patterns found in beadwork or basketry. Together these seven artists embody a bold and vibrant approach to the medium. This exhibition showcases the collaborations between the artists, MATRIX Press and the Missoula Art Museum, with all works being printed in tandem with UM printmaking students. Gallery Talk by Jason Clark, Monday, October 14th, noon-1pm 
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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. |
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May 3-September 14, 2019
Bury the Hatchet Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT Bury the Hatchet is Comanche/Kiowa artist John Hitchcock’s mixed-media, cross-disciplinary, multisensory installation. The exhibition is based on the American Frontier and plays off the theme of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. The variety of elements that form the exhibition were inspired by Hitchcock’s research while he was artist-in-residence at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. He says, “The new artworks will challenge historical perspectives by reframing history and asking new questions about the idea of the Wild West show and the importance of the American Indian objects collected by Buffalo Bill.” Hitchcock’s reinterpretation of Buffalo Bill Cody’s traveling show explores assimilation, acculturation, and the colonial indoctrination of indigenous people through sound, video performance, and screen prints.The installation features a sound stage, neon sculptures, and the work from the print series, Flatlander, comprised of 40 screen prints that Hitchcock created with MATRIX Press, University of Montana in 2017 |
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April, 2019
Indigeneity from the Collection: A Feminine Sampling Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA Exhibition was curated by Ms. Olivia Nagozruk & Dr. Paul Manoguerra. Ms. Nagzruk purposefully curated this display to honor the missing and murdered indigenous women. Prints created at Matrix Press by artists Melanie Yazzie and Sara Siestreem were shown as part of this exhibition. |
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March 2- July 28, 2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction Missoula Art Museum LINK TO EXHIBTION May 4 & 5, 2018 First Friday Opening with the Artists/Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock & Duane Slick. Gallery Talk @ 7:00 pm. Saturday, May 5th Roundtable Discussion with all the Artists at MAM. @ 11:00 a.m. Catalog Available beautiful full color, 60 page catalog features images of works from the exhibition, studio shots, and portraits of the artists. You can purchase of copy at the Missoula Art Museum front desk or order one online by clicking here. MAM Bookstore. Over the past two years, MAM, MATRIX Press, and the University of Montana School of Art have been working with four artists—Molly Murphy Adams (Oglala Lakota), John Hitchcock (Comanche), Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos/Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Tribes), and Duane Slick (Meskwaki/Nebraska Ho-Chunk)—who were each invited to participate in printmaking residencies generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Each artist visited Missoula for one week to create new work at MATRIX Press. interact with the community, and offer a public lecture about their artistic practice. This exhibition presents an expansive interpretation of what abstraction can be. Rather than focus on non-objectivity, the included artworks define abstraction as emphasizing relevant features and omitting unnecessary details of an object, emotion, or experience. The works incorporate beaded, quill, and woven patterns, parfleche designs, animal motifs, and elements of the landscape.Abstraction, as an artistic style, inherited some of modernism’s utopian or ideological associations, such as progress, originality, and pursuit of the “new.” As a result, abstraction has been a vehicle for resulting colonial histories of displacement, subjugation, and genocide of Indigenous people. This exhibition honors contemporary artists who reclaim Indigenous representations and knowledges. The artists of The Shape of Things use abstraction or abstract qualities to express Indigenous and personal realities against a backdrop of complex and varied practices that include appropriation of source materials, hybridity, installation, and critical theory. On the subject of abstraction, artist and author Gail Tremblay states, “Historically, Indigenous peoples have well-established traditions of both abstract and highly stylized representational design. Some visual symbols people use are mnemonic and make knowledgeable viewers who see them and think of stories associated with them. Contemporary Native artists are influenced by such aesthetic traditions and at the same time they are trained to use a wide variety of media and styles used by contemporary artists around the world.” This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding from the Andy Warhol foundation and Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program. |
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May, 2018
James Todd 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. Le Petit Outre, Noteworthy Paper & Press, Clyde Coffee, Radius Gallery, Betty's Devine, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Matrix Press, ZACC and Fact and Fiction. |
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February 15-May 19, 2018
Miriam Schapiro: Anonymous Was a Woman Missoula Art Museum LINK TO EXHIBTION In 1999, during a major retrospective at the Missoula Art Museum, Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015) visited MATRIX Press and created eight etchings using handmade bonnets, doilies, and antimacassars. The resulting suite, Anonymous was a Woman, honors the labor of women whose names are lost to history, their handmade items having been relegated to “crafts” rather than artworks. Calling attention to the unassuming traditions associated with women, these prints celebrate women’s creativity and traditional art forms, critique the institutions that limit and trivialize women’s experiences, and promote a sense of identity, solidarity, and significance. In the 18 years since Schapiro’s residency, MAM and MATRIX Press have collaborated on numerous exhibitions, residencies, and lectures. MAM has collected more than two dozen MATRIX editions that have come from this collaboration, including Anonymous Was a Woman, which recognizes the ongoing work of women artists, as well as the fruitful MAM/MATRIX partnership. |
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March 19-May 31, 2018
Continuum Salish Kootenai College 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. |
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March 5-March 16, 2015
MATRIX Press: New Editions 2012-2014 Gallery of Visual Arts/University of Montana LINK TO EXHIBTION This exhibition highlights recent new editions created through MATRIX Press. Artists Included in the Exhibition include: Jason Clark, Joe Feddersen, Tyler Krasowski, Sean Starwars and Melanie Yazzie. |
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March 5-March 16, 2015
Melanie Yazzie: Strong Circles Gallery of Visual Arts/University of Montana LINK TO EXHIBTION This exhibition highlights a series of 25 new monotypes created by artist Melanie Yazzie, in June 2014 at MATRIX Press. |
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October 8, 2013- February 9, 2013
Recent Acquisition: Matrix Press Missoula Art Museum "Recent Acquisition: MATRIX Press", The Missoula Art Museum would like to thank Professor James Bailey and MATRIX Press for the gift of this beautiful selection of 23 prints executed by eight of the talented artists invited to work with MATRIX Press, The University of Montana’s visiting artist program. This recent gift joins to earlier gifts to MAM of artworks by art world legends Richard Mock and Miriam Schapiro, also executed at MATRIX Press. Contemporary Collectors Circle: James Bailey, October 24th @ 5:30 pm. |
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2011-2012
MATRIX Press: Master Prints / Traveling Exhibition 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. |
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October 2-November 1, 2012
Matrix Press: Master Prints Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, MT LINK TO EXHIBTION The exhibition includes approximately thirty-nine 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 artisticand technical approaches to the print. |
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October 2-November 1, 2012
Print Assistant Exhibition: Gallery of Visual Arts/University of Montana 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. |
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November 1-November 30, 2011
Matrix Press: Master Prints The University of Montana-Western, Dillion, MT Public Lecture / Wednesday, November 6, Lecture by Matrix Press Director, James Bailey @ 6:00 pm |
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September 1-October 15, 2011
Matrix Press: Master Prints The Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT The exhibition includes approximately thirty-nine 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 artisticand technical approaches to the print. |
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June 9-August 13, 2011
Matrix Press: Master Prints Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT |
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January 10-February 28, 2011
Matrix Press: Master Prints Emerson Art Center, Bozeman, MT MATRIX Press: Master Prints will be on display in the Jessie Wilber Gallery and Bozeman Printmaking 2011 in the Emerson Lobby. Gallery Talk by Matrix Press Director James Bailey @ 6:30 pm. |