Past Exhibitions
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March 2- July 28, 2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction Missoula Art Museum 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.” |
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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 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 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 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, 2014
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. |
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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 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. |