Matt Harley is a Candian artist who has produced thirty-three solo exhibitions so far, and participated in slightly more group exhibitions (that he knows of).
Stated in quasi-artspeak, his work consists of representational drawings, paintings, and installations encompassing contemporary and traditional materials and concerns.
He has received eleven of the fourteen grants he's applied for from various granting agencies.
To supplement his income from art sales, Mr Harley has worked as an illustrator, fabric designer, silkscreen printer, muralist, musician, and cartoonist.
His unsyndicated comic strip, Pablo da Vinci, initially seen as chalk drawings in various locations on Toronto sidewalks in 2001, first appeared in print in Wegway in 2002. It appeared quarterly in The City of St Catharines Culture News (2006—2008), and subsequently with the same frequency but a different format in On The Twelve, the newsletter published by Rodman Hall Art Centre (2010—2011)
He has been an installer for twelve different art galleries, in both the non-profit and private sectors, beginning with his part-time job at the highly influential A Space in Toronto in 1978, most recently as the full-time preparator at Rodman Hall Art Centre, 2006—2011.
Mr Harley has lived in St Catharines since 2002, right next door to where he was also born in 1953.
(excerpted from the longer piece, BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS, which can be read in its entirety on the 'About' page)
Stated in quasi-artspeak, his work consists of representational drawings, paintings, and installations encompassing contemporary and traditional materials and concerns.
He has received eleven of the fourteen grants he's applied for from various granting agencies.
To supplement his income from art sales, Mr Harley has worked as an illustrator, fabric designer, silkscreen printer, muralist, musician, and cartoonist.
His unsyndicated comic strip, Pablo da Vinci, initially seen as chalk drawings in various locations on Toronto sidewalks in 2001, first appeared in print in Wegway in 2002. It appeared quarterly in The City of St Catharines Culture News (2006—2008), and subsequently with the same frequency but a different format in On The Twelve, the newsletter published by Rodman Hall Art Centre (2010—2011)
He has been an installer for twelve different art galleries, in both the non-profit and private sectors, beginning with his part-time job at the highly influential A Space in Toronto in 1978, most recently as the full-time preparator at Rodman Hall Art Centre, 2006—2011.
Mr Harley has lived in St Catharines since 2002, right next door to where he was also born in 1953.
(excerpted from the longer piece, BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS, which can be read in its entirety on the 'About' page)
SOME 'GILT SERIES' PAINTINGS
Gilt Series #19. Still-Life Study for ‘Boy! Bitten By A Plastic Snake!’ (Homage to Caravaggio – Pastiche of ‘Boy Bitten By A Lizard’); 2013; plywood, rabbit skin glue, chalk, coloured pencil, watercolour, gouache, enamel, mordant size, 24 kt. gold; 43.2 x 57.8 cm (17 x 22.75 in)
photographed in a white room under dimmed, indirect incandescent light; exhibited, The Gladstone, Toronto; private collection
photographed in a white room under dimmed, indirect incandescent light; exhibited, The Gladstone, Toronto; private collection
Gilt Series #16. Allegory of Aging (Shot Tulips); 2013; rabbit skin glue, chalk, watercolour, gouache, enamel, mordant size, 24 Kt. gold on plywood; 43.5 x 33.2 cm (17.125 x 13.125 in)
photographed in a white room under incandescent and daylight; exhibited, The Gladstone, Toronto
photographed in a white room under incandescent and daylight; exhibited, The Gladstone, Toronto
Gilt Series #15. Allegory of Seeing a Projection While Thinking You're Seeing the Other (Homage to Caravaggio); 2013; rabbit skin glue, chalk, watercolour, gouache, enamel, mordant size, 24 Kt. gold on plywood;; 38.1 x 30.5 cm (15 x 12 in)
photographed in a white room under incandescent and daylight; private collection
photographed in a white room under incandescent and daylight; private collection
Gilt Series #14. Yellow Flowers - Allegory of Aspiration (Homage to Van Gogh); 2013; rabbit skin glue, chalk, watercolour, gouache, enamel, mordant size, 24 Kt. gold on plywood; 41.8 x 32.2 cm (16.375 x 12.75 in)
photographed in a white room under incandescent and daylight; exhibited, The Gladstone, Toronto; private collection
photographed in a white room under incandescent and daylight; exhibited, The Gladstone, Toronto; private collection
