Matthew Swift Gallery
189 Main St
Massachusetts 01930 Gloucester
United States
Phone : +1 (978) 491-7785
Email : director@matthewswiftgallery.com
URL : MatthewSwiftGallery.com
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About
Founder and Director Dr. Matthew Swift curates gallery inventory and produces gallery exhibitions, drawing on over twenty-five years of multi-disciplinary research in the arts. He works primarily with living artists residing in eastern Massachusetts, which allows him to develop an understanding of the artist’s practice over a period of years, and to keep current with the artist’s evolving concerns and projects. The gallery also represents significant estates and some artists residing outside the region
Visitors to the public gallery will see an exhibition and may browse an inventory of hundreds of works of art hand-picked by the Director on a large projection screen. Inventory may be viewed in person by appointment at a private showroom near the gallery.
Matthew Swift founded Trident Gallery in 2013. After six years, fifty exhibitions, and twenty-five live art performances, he retired the Trident name and has continued as Matthew Swift Gallery.
Peter Lyons
Peter Lyons Coyoacán, Mexico City
Milton Johnson Derr
Boston
While walking in Boston's South End neighborhood in 1971, the artist and the painting's current owner passed a brownstone house that was being demolished, and they paused to remark on the layers of history and generations of lives represented through the exposed layers of building materials. A few months later, the artist presented this painting as a gift to his friend inspired by their conversation.
Peter Lyons was born in 1960 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and chose to devote himself to painting as a young man. He emigrated to the United States about 1990 and after a few years in California settled in Massachusetts.
Lyons’s technique approaches photographic realism, but the precision in his paintings is an attempt to communicate a state of awareness, rather than to reproduce a scene. An otherworldly light reveals a moment of harmony among the natural, human, and transcendent orders of being. “Bathed in this elevating light,” says Lyons, “the beauty of the ordinary is released, and the image acts as a lens focusing awareness of wonder, joy, and spiritual anticipation in the viewer.”
In significant respects, Lyons’s paintings both resemble and have the power of mid-19th-century Luminist paintings: beauty is immanent, serenity is palpable, and spiritual fulfillment is imminent. And in other respects, they are unabashedly 21st-century paintings, taking pleasure and finding wonder in color, form, and abstraction.
2023; oil on canvas; 50 x 60 in.
More infoPeter Lyons was born in 1960 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and chose to devote himself to painting as a young man. He emigrated to the United States about 1990 and after a few years in California settled in Massachusetts.
Lyons’s technique approaches photographic realism, but the precision in his paintings is an attempt to communicate a state of awareness, rather than to reproduce a scene. An otherworldly light reveals a moment of harmony among the natural, human, and transcendent orders of being. “Bathed in this elevating light,” says Lyons, “the beauty of the ordinary is released, and the image acts as a lens focusing awareness of wonder, joy, and spiritual anticipation in the viewer.”
In significant respects, Lyons’s paintings both resemble and have the power of mid-19th-century Luminist paintings: beauty is immanent, serenity is palpable, and spiritual fulfillment is imminent. And in other respects, they are unabashedly 21st-century paintings, taking pleasure and finding wonder in color, form, and abstraction.
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