Penny Mateer

ON EXHIBITION
You Don't Own Me #14 Protest Series was selected for this important exhibition The Art of Democracy: Whose Choice? curated by Michaela Blanc at the Louis L. Manderino Library PennWest California 250 University Ave California, Pennsylvania through October 13, 2024.

I am thrilled to announce the ABC of It is on exhibition in Politically Charged juried by MaryTess Mayhall and Trung Cao at Blue Line Arts opening August 31st through October 5th, 2024 405 Vernon Street Suite 100 Roseveille, California

It is Happening Here is currently on exhibit on-line in ACCESS An Ordinary Notion presented by Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art Accompanying the show is a fantastic catalog you can view on-line and is available for purchase.

The debut of The Influenza Blues #16 Protest Series A collaboration with Martha Wasik on exhibit in Viral Integration An exhibition of 41 artists addressing health issues curated by Elin O'Hara Slavick in currently on exhibit in the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences Building University of California Irvine Campus through December, 2024. Information and link to on-line catalog here.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Stop in the Name of...#6 Protest Series will be exhibited in the 12th annual “FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art” by Meaghan A. Dee at the Reece Museum opening September 30 - December 6, 2024 in Johnson City, Tennessee. This is the second time my work from The Protest Series was included.

Super excited that the debut of All We Need is Love #18 Protest Series will be on exhibit in The Art of Democracy curated by Natalie Sweet at Brew House Arts 711 South 21st Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. October 10- November 2, 2024.

Honored to have Listen to Sly...Isn't It About Everybody? included in Democracy Under Seige juried by Lorenzo Fusi, Chief Curator of the Currier Museum at the Hera Gallery 10 High Street Wakefield, Rhode Island October 12 - November 16, 2024


EXCITING NEWS
My new series It's All Part of the Plan launched in my Political Collage Residency with Kolaj Institute is now available in a book Politics in Collage along with 23 artists who also participated in the residency.

I participated in a virtual conversation recorded on January 27, 2021, with the curator of We Are the Story, Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi a series of quilt exhibitions created as a visual response to racism in American following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. We discuss the exhibition and our art practices.