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Interviews, Lectures, and Past Projects
Discussion of Dynamic Symmetry, Theosophy and Kandinsky as it relates to the work of Agnes Pelton. A lecture accompanying the exhibition, Agnes Pelton Desert Transcendentalist at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM. 1/25/2020
This work by Raymond Jonson is one of the best he ever painted. It speaks to his difficulty in choosing to live in Chicago, New York, or Santa Fe in the early 1930s. Jonson preferred the beauty of rural life in New Mexico, but knew his career would suffer by not living in an urban center. This painting is the end of Earth Rhythms and the beginning of City Scapes. In it lies the question and the answer. In making the music and video for this piece, I strove to mirror this conflict. 1/20/2021
The first installment of Addison Rowe Gallery's video series. This video focuses on the artist Raymond Jonson (1891 - 1982). All research and presentation by Matthew Rowe. The video was filmed and edited by Curtis Busker and Simply Cinema.
1/24/2018
Although this may seem somewhat unrelated to everything else I do, I have been swing dancing since I was 9 years old. Sarah Haines and I first started dancing together when I was 13 and she was 12. We decided to start our own swing dance night in Santa Fe around 2014-2015. This was a warm up dance before the band showed up. This was also before I knew Fusion dance was a thing. Beat by Marian Hill.
June, 2015
One of New Mexico’s most renowned and influential painters, Raymond Jonson, pursued a lifelong investigation into making color and form expressive of the human spirit. Matthew Rowe sees a poignant and tremendous achievement in Jonson’s late paintings, after 1960 Jonson created his most profound works. Music: Headwaters Instrumental by Chad Crouch, Hopes and Dreams by Kai Engel. 10/1/2020
Fast Art Day features a series of 14 3-minute lightning rounds introductions to a variety of arts based topics in a concise and fast-paced, multiple-speaker event. The museum invites artists, scholars, and community members to present on topic of their choice in 3 minute long intervals. This series of very short presentation will be given in St. Francis Auditorium. I was the first speaker at this event. 4/9/2018
Although this may seem somewhat unrelated to everything else I do, I have been swing dancing since I was 9 years old. Sarah Haines and I first started dancing together when I was 13 and she was 12. We decided to start our own swing dance night in Santa Fe around 2014-2015. This was a warm up dance before the band showed up. This was also before I knew Fusion dance was a thing. Beat by Chet Faker.
June, 2015
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