{"id":694,"date":"2022-10-31T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/?p=694"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:50:59","slug":"pretend-witness-new-work-by-matt-shelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/2022\/10\/31\/pretend-witness-new-work-by-matt-shelton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretend, witness: New Work by Matt Shelton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Opening reception: Tuesday, November 1, 5:00 \u2013 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist\u2019s Talk: Tuesday, November 1, 7:30 p.m., Voney 109<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/files\/2022\/05\/SheltonM_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/files\/2022\/05\/SheltonM_08.jpg 900w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/files\/2022\/05\/SheltonM_08-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/files\/2022\/05\/SheltonM_08-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">raft, 2016-2022, 11.5\u201d x 16.75\u201d x 23.25\u201d. Pulp from October 1981 and January 1981 issues of Civil War Time Illustrated, Brita pitcher, velvet, plastic eagle, family photo from the birth of our daughter, ceramic bead, beeswax from used candles, plastic grocery bag scraps, marker on masking tape <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist, writer and teacher&nbsp;<strong>Matt Shelton<\/strong>&nbsp;(he\/him) received a BFA from Guilford College in 2004 and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from VCU in 2012. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo presentations and in recurrent collaboration with Trinidadian artist Nikolai Noel. His writing has appeared in&nbsp;<em>Burnaway<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>MONDAY Art Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Southern Cultures<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Art Papers<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ext.1708<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>LOOKsee<\/em>, and the&nbsp;<em>Richmond Arts Review<\/em>. He is the recipient of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Richmond Critical Art Writers Workshop. Over the past decade, he has taught across 2D, conceptual, digital, and time-based mediums at Virginia Commonwealth University and at the University of Virginia, where he currently is general faculty in Foundations. He lives with his family in Earlysville, Virginia.&nbsp;&nbsp;Matt\u2019s website addresses:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewpshelton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/matthewpshelton.com<\/a><\/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\/prinbill\/Matt_Shelton_booklet.pdf\">View Catalog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening reception: Tuesday, November 1, 5:00 \u2013 6:30 p.m. Artist\u2019s Talk: Tuesday, November 1, 7:30 p.m., Voney 109 Artist, writer and teacher&nbsp;Matt Shelton&nbsp;(he\/him) received a BFA from Guilford College in 2004 and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from VCU in 2012. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo presentations and in recurrent collaboration &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/2022\/10\/31\/pretend-witness-new-work-by-matt-shelton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretend, witness: New Work by Matt Shelton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"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-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/jameskschmidtgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}