Matthew Every (born 1990, New York, NY) received his BFA from The Cooper Union. He is also the founder of Hoy Hoy, a residency program that focuses on short term residencies for groups of artists giving them both space to work and exposure.

Matthew’s work focuses on a lonely kind of American individualism often found right under our noses. He explores this through a variety of media including painting, video, installation and writing. Along with this he is an avid outdoorsman, hunter and conservationist, closely investigating the relationship between humans and this vast landscape we inhabit.
 

He lives and works in Mount Tremper NY in the heart of the Catskill Mountains.

Education

2013, BFA The Cooper Union

Solo Exhibitions

2013 - Safe Distance, The Cooper Union, New York NY
2012 - 3 Kinds of People, Tribeca Faces, Installation at 15 Leonard Street, New York NY Group Exhibitions
2016 - Dirt Track Red Head, Hoy Hoy, Mount Tremper NY
2015 - Cecilia Collantes and Matthew Every, Hoy Hoy, Mount Tremper NY

- People’s Choice Grande Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2013 - A Very Warm House, Ferro Strouse Gallery, New York NY
2012 - EYOS, The Cooper Union, New York NY

Awards

2009 - Full Tuition Scholarship to The Cooper Union

Ardnaglass is pleased to present Super Single, the gallery’s first exhibition with Matthew Every, featuring new paintings. The exhibition is on view from June 17th - August 17th, 2017 at The Old Bank of America, 2808 Route 28 Shokan, NY 12481.

 

Roslyn: How do you find your way back in the dark?
Gay: Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home

.- The Misfits, 1961

Super Single is a rescaling of grandiose archetypes filtering down into the most ubiquitous of display apparatus. Using found imagery from the graphic art of U.S. state license plates, Matthew Every parses out national ideals and setting through a series of large scale paintings.

Under our identifying numbers is an image to represent our freedom and individuality. A uniquely American landscape of solitude and self-reliance. This is a predicament, a contest between two eternal forces – our evolution from knuckle dragging animals mystified by the skyline to invertebrate bean counters obsessed with accountability.

There is also a fleeting visual conversation between these pictures as they move down the highway towards one another. One that takes place in the very landscapes they represent. With our individuality intact, we still reach out trying to connect, but the backdrop is too big and we become specks of dust floating between the coasts.

Matthew Every (born 1990, New York, NY) received his BFA from The Cooper Union. He is also the founder of Hoy Hoy, a residency program that focuses on short term residencies for groups of artists, giving them both space to work and exposure. He lives and works in Mount Tremper, NY located in the heart of the Catskill Mountains.

Matthew’s work focuses on a lonely kind of American individualism often found right under our noses. He explores this through a variety of media including painting, video, installation, and writing. He is an avid outdoorsman, hunter and conservationist, closely investigating the relationship between humans and this vast landscape we inhabit.

For more information, or to schedule an appointment, please call (917) 635-1149 or email allisonpreynolds@yahoo.com

 

JUNE 17th thru AUGUST 17th

old Bank Of America

Route 28

Shokan New York 12481

 

opening reception JUNE 17th 2-8pm. Join Us.