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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
Artist's studio - current,
Palm Springs, CA
Mt. San Jacinto College Fine
Arts Gallery, Paintings,
Sculptures, Jewelry, Mobiles,
Landscape Design, Furnishings,
San Jacinto, CA
El Camino College Fine Arts
Gallery, sculpture & painting,
Torrance, CA Sept
Artist Owned Design Studio &
Art Gallery, Painting,
Sculpture, Jewelry, Mobiles,
Landscape Design, and ...
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Artist Galleries:
Studio Gallery 2485
Palm Springs, CA
Michael H. Lord Gallery,
Palm Springs, CA...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Max Factor Cosmetics, Palm
Springs, CA
M/M Samuel Maslon, Tamarisk
CC, Rancho Mirage, CA
M/M Vickers, Palm Springs, CA
M/M Stanley Harmon, Rancho
Mirage, CA
M/M Felmar, Palm Springs, CA
M/M Alfred Goldman, Maunalua
Bay, Oahu
M/M Davis, Thunderbird CC,
Rancho Mirage, CA
John ...
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Commissions:
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm
Springs, CA added 900 sq ft
display walls within existing
envelope area
Winkelman’s Jewelry Store,
Detroit, MI, ceiling
mural/painting
Henry Edelstone, Chicago, IL
M/M Stanley Harmon, Rancho
Mirage, CA
M/M Duane Hagadone, Coeur
d’Alene, ID, mobile
Charles Naywert, Ltd., Palm
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Artist Statement for Mathew Sumich
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The focus of my work - whether non-commissioned or commissioned - has been to work with basic elements such as line, form, color, texture, etc., and to apply them to the principles of design, e.g., dealing with proportion, subordination, rhythm, balance, opposition, transition, harmony and contour continuation, and to deal with different media, e.g., steel, glass, paint, wood, cement, etc., and to find potential uses of the media, taking into consideration its use in the environment in which it is to be located.
My interests have always been with line and plane – the first elements of drawing. Line creates plane, plane creates depth, plane can advance or recede by the use of color. My art is fundamental, basic, simple design principles in action. Using structural design principles and having a good understanding of the environment, I am able to take any media – steel, glass, wood, clay, canvas – and create 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, or 4 dimensional (adding the dimension of time) objects. The final form, be it a painting, jewelry, sculpture, mobile or other object is a total composite of these basic and fundamental principles of design. I challenge myself by setting up limitations – size, environment, media, etc – my goal being to take the particular limitations to their maximum and create as many possibilities (discoveries) from those limitations as I can conceive.
I take into consideration the site I have to work with, and look at the elements of nature which are particular to that site, such as the wind, sun, terrain, buildings, etc., in order to determine what kind of object will withstand the environment of that site. When I work on something in an environment in which the piece can deteriorate, it is completely different, e,g., indoors – like dealing with small sculptures or paintings. In these cases, I look at the lighting, space, and other aspects of the interior environment. Then I deal with the size and surface of a the painting, or the dimensions and placement of the sculpture, if it is a commissioned piece. A non commissioned piece is based on expressing a message I want to convey – in particular, that which preserves the environment and its surrounding.
Through color, I depict aspects of nature which are connected - – sun, sea, sand and surf. I do not feel a need to paint a specific representation of those, rather I let the color carry the message or visual image because they are of the same color, e.g., sun/yellow, sea/blue, etc. I can also use the force of colors – e.g., white as purity, red as danger, yellow as warmth, and green as growth – to deepen a message. I use ‘line’ in the same way. Horizontal lines are restful, vertical lines have strength, and diagonal lines have power. A photograph is more accurate and faster than a painting. In my newer work, I prefer to paint in the abstract, using a combination of color and photography to depict a mood or message. Earlier work did not include this photographic element.
Another primary interest has been with time and motion. A segment of work, for example, is to exploit movement and its relationship to time. This exploitation has taken the form of ‘movable’ or interactive sculpture – pieces that the viewer can pick up and move, thus changing the appearance of the overall work, and creating an interaction with the viewer through their own movement and capturing a lapse of time in that activity.
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