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Matt Mays
Our attention is an ability we have to discriminate; only focusing on what we want to perceive. My art is a rising awareness of my own perceptions. The subject matter is created to encourage harmless assumptions tobe made; even minorjudgments. To some,what we see is true; others may be too embedded in our system to feel.
Our socialization teaches us to judge ourselves and everything around us. Nature is the ultimate source of reason, and we are still nature. I embrace everyinterpretation of my work, whether they are seen as a statement about life, legacies or a common environmental issue. After all, art is not the truth; it is only a means of exposing it. People in the past have asked me, "are you painting another junk car?" I'd prefer to call them relics. Matt Mays was born in Sydney, Australia in 1975. Later his family moved to a tobacco farm in Appomattox, Virginia. They relocated half way between Thomas Jefferson's summer home and Jerry Falwell's conservative grasp. He now lives and works in Woodstock, NY; selling his art across the states.
Matt Mays
EMPLOYMENT
Communications Intern. May 2000 to September 2000
York University Communications Department, Toronto, Canada. Reported to the art director.
Duties included assisting art director in design department, production and scanning duties, liaised with photographers and artists for art director, responsible for art department library, filing and art delivery. Coordinated props and models for photography.Instructor. 1997-1999.Western Illinois University Summer Art Camp
Duties included instructing students in both QuarkXPress and Photoshop software usage.Instructor. 1996-1997
Art Learning Center, Forest VA
Responsible for instructing children aged 7-12 in basic art techniques.Freelance Design and Illustration clients include
Central Virginia Community College
Illinois Portfolio Press
Pig Passages
Elements Literary Magazine
Profiles Magazine
Shivastan PublishingEDUCATION
B.F.A. Western Illinois University
The Art Student's League of New York, NYCEXHIBITIONS
2002 "Art for friends." Group show. Town Hall, Woodstock, NY
2001 The Living Seed Gallery, New Paltz, NY
2001 Actively shown in monthly WAA shows, Woodstock, NY
2000 "In Human Nature, Works on Paper." Sullivan Taylor Gallery, Macomb,IL
1998-2000 Annual Sullivan Taylor Gallery Juried Exhibition
1999 The Turning Point Gallery, One-person show. Macomb,IL
1998 Kaleidoscope Annual Exhibition, Lynchburg, Va
1998 Annual Lynchburg Fine Arts Center Juried Show.
