Parallax // November 2019

Photographs by Matthew Monteith

Opening Reception // November 7, 2019, 6-9pm

Aviary Gallery is pleased to present Parallax, an exhibition of photographs by Matthew Monteith, in November 2019.

In 2001/02, Matthew Monteith made a body of work titled Czech Eden with the assistance of a Fulbright Fellowship, and the subsequent work was published by Aperture as a monograph in 2006. This past year, he received a second Fulbright to revisit the Czech Republic and the locations and people that he photographed there during his first grant period.

This exhibition consists of photographs of the same subjects made 17 years apart exploring the passage of time and its effect on people and places. The pictures work to create a parallax view that allows the viewer to meditate on both time’s impact on the physical world as well as the shift in the photographer’s intentions and desires. The photographs emphasize the idea of memories considered in the present using various reference points asking the viewer to perceive time and space in the way the parallax method uses two slightly different views to estimate distance in photography and human vision.

Matthew Monteith studied at the International Center of Photography before earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2004. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic from 2001-2002, and the resulting work was published as Czech Eden by Aperture in 2006. He was a resident at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in New York City in 2004-05 and received the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize in Photography from the American Academy in Rome in 2008. In 2015, he received a Pollock Krasner fellowship for his ongoing project The Explainers. His first show at Aviary, The Graduates, was also in 2015. His editorial work has appeared in numerous publications, and his clients include Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Harvard Art Museums, The Deste Foundation, Microsoft, and many others. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Austin, Kyoto, Paris, Arles, and Cherbourg as well as in group exhibitions in New York, Charlotte, Miami, Washington D.C., Rennes, Ljubljana, Pula, Prague, Rome, and elsewhere. He is an Associate Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

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