Matthew Gualco

My work forms an allusive hybrid between drawing and literature by interjecting the subject matter with literature and symbols. There is rawness in the manner that is within the understanding of the viewer. Based on my experiences and everyday life, I portray society with all of its imperfections that we all enjoy. Society is placed starkly into traditional literary formats of screenplays, prose and poetry.

The wingding characters interspersed throughout my writings act as both decoys and stage directions to compel the viewer/reader to determine for themselves whether these dashes, arrows and symbols serve a particular semiotic purpose or whether they may simply be placeholders, abstract glyphs alluding to some modern day Rosetta Ston

San Francisco Art Institute, MFA New Genre May 2012

Outstanding Graduate Student, New Genre May 2012

1st Place Alice Bremer Award for Exhibit Judged by Faculty SFAI

Kansas City Art Institute, BFA Painting May 2008

ARTS Merit Award Winner 2001-2002 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts

? Permanent Collection, School Of The Visual Arts NYC July 2012

? Permanent Collection, The Roger L. and Joni Cohen Resource Room H&R Block Artspace July 2012

? Edicola-Colpa Press Book & Magazine Distribution-Art Gallery May 2012

? Exhibition The Performance Art Institute May 2012

? MFA Graduate Exhibition The Phoenix Hotel May 2012

1st Place Alice Bremer Award for Exhibit Judged by Faculty SFAI

? Wingdings S.H.E.D Projects December 2011

? Drawing Show Diego Rivera Gallery 2010

? New Genres Show Swell Gallery 2010

? Kansas City Flat file Show H&R Block Artspace June 2010