{"id":1030,"date":"2026-02-09T22:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:16:41","slug":"seeking-that-shimmering-weave-experiments-and-encounters-through-drawing-work-by-matthew-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/2026\/02\/09\/seeking-that-shimmering-weave-experiments-and-encounters-through-drawing-work-by-matthew-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking That Shimmering Weave\u00a0(Experiments and Encounters through Drawing) work by Matthew Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 17 \u2013 March 28, 2026<\/strong><br>Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 17, 5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>Artist&#8217;s Gallery Talk: Tuesday, February 17, 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew Whitney&nbsp;(he\/him)&nbsp;<\/strong>is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and pedestrian whose work explores lived experience as an embodied encounter rather than a representational one. Working across drawing, painting, photography, collage, video, performance, and installation, his practice privileges process, material responsiveness, and attention over fixed meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rooted in contemplative traditions, the work has long engaged walking as both method and metaphor\u2014producing personal cartographies that trace the relationship between body, ground, and place. In recent years, his practice has shifted toward materially driven processes that embrace fragmentation, chance, and imperfection as generative conditions. Through acts of manipulation, \u201cdeskilling,\u201d and intuitive mark-making, his work invites viewers into open-ended encounters that foreground presence, vulnerability, and reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt holds a BA in Art from Whitworth University and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In parallel with his studio practice, he is engaged in teaching, facilitation, and community-based work. He currently serves as Creative Director at Spiritual Directors International, an interfaith nonprofit dedicated to contemplative practices of spiritual direction and companionship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/files\/2026\/03\/Matt_Whitney-Catalog-catalog-web-PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Brochure<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further work can be viewed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewwhitney.com\/\">www.matthewwhitney.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size:.7em\">Featured image: Matthew Whitney,\u00a0Working It Out,\u00a0(2018)\u00a0acrylic and graphite on paper, 60\u201d x 120\u201d<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 17 \u2013 March 28, 2026Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 17, 5:00-6:30 p.m.Artist&#8217;s Gallery Talk: Tuesday, February 17, 5:30 p.m. Matthew Whitney&nbsp;(he\/him)&nbsp;is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and pedestrian whose work explores lived experience as an embodied encounter rather than a representational one. Working across drawing, painting, photography, collage, video, performance, and installation, his practice privileges process, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/2026\/02\/09\/seeking-that-shimmering-weave-experiments-and-encounters-through-drawing-work-by-matthew-whitney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeking That Shimmering Weave\u00a0(Experiments and Encounters through Drawing) work by Matthew Whitney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}