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Les Amants Eternels (French w/English subtitles, 2025) from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

Il y a un siècle, Henry et Marie Clews, les amants eternels, s'exilaient pour échapper aux attentes sociales, politiques et artistiques de leur époque. Comme la nuit est réservée aux amoureux, les anciennes tours de châteaux qu'ils ont trouvées sur la Côte d'Azur leur ont permis de se transformer mutuellement en artistes. Représentée visuellement par des animations abstraites et interprétée avec leurs propres mots, la réalité problématique qu'Henry et Marie ont créée pour eux-mêmes résonne avec notre propre époque discordante.

Court métrage narratif expérimental, animation en direct et peinture en mouvement, voix off en français avec musique, durée finale : 7 minutes 15 secondes.

Le narrateur/raconteur est interprété par François Wolman ; Henry et Marie sont interprétés par Renaud Sebbane et Hélène Renaut (version française) ; la musique est composée, arrangée et interprétée par Shirley Song. Le scénario est un collage des propres écrits d’Henry et Marie tirés de Mumbo Jumbo (1923) et Once Upon A Time in La Napoule, les mémoires de Marie publiés en 1998.

Produit, réalisé, animé et monté par Matt Sheridan / msheridanstudio@gmail.com Produit et traduit par Nelcy Mercier / La Napoule Art Foundation - lnaf.org

A century ago, Henry and Marie Clews -- The Lingering Lovers -- exiled themselves to escape prevailing social, political, and artistic expectations of their time. As night is for lovers, ancient chateau towers they found in the Cote d’Azur gave them cover to transform each other into artists. Visually represented by abstract animations and performed in their own words, the problematically constructed reality Henry and Marie created for themselves resonates with our own discordant era.

Experimental narrative video short, live action and painting-in-motion animation, French voice over with music, final run time: 7 minutes 15 seconds. 

The narrator/raconteur is performed by François Wolman; Henry and Marie are performed by Renaud Sebbane and Regina Taufen (English version); music is composed, arranged and performed by Shirley Song. The script is collaged from Henry and Marie’s own writings from Mumbo Jumbo (1923) and Once Upon A Time in La Napoule, Marie’s memoir published 1998.

Produced, directed, animated and edited by Matt Sheridan / msheridanstudio@gmail.com Produced and translated by Nelcy Mercier / La Napoule Art Foundation - lnaf.org

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Les Amants Eternels (w/English subtitles, 2025) from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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Les Amants Eternels from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

Il y a un siècle, Henry et Marie Clews, le amants eternels, s'exilaient pour échapper aux attentes sociales, politiques et artistiques de leur époque. Comme la nuit est réservée aux amoureux, les anciennes tours de châteaux qu'ils ont trouvées sur la Côte d'Azur leur ont permis de se transformer mutuellement en artistes. Représentée visuellement par des animations abstraites et interprétée avec leurs propres mots, la réalité problématique qu'Henry et Marie ont créée pour eux-mêmes résonne avec notre propre époque discordante.

Court métrage narratif expérimental, animation en direct et peinture en mouvement, voix off en français avec musique, durée finale : 7 minutes 20 secondes.

En 1918, Henry et Marie, respectivement sculpteur et musicien/architecte, ont acquis l'ancien château, le transformant pendant deux décennies en atelier d'artiste d'Henry et en jardins de Marie. Malgré le conservatisme radical d’Henry, le château fut occupé par les nazis après sa mort en 1937, ce qui est poignant et ironique.

Marie a survécu à l’occupation pour créer sa fondation, qui accueille des artistes internationaux en résidence toute l’année. En tant qu’ancienne artiste résidente du château, les énergies des Clews ont communiqué avec moi sur place lorsque j’ai fait des recherches sur ce projet. On dit que les esprits des Clews dansent au clair de lune dans une pièce fermée au sommet de la tour de leur mausolée où leurs restes sont enterrés.

Le narrateur/raconteur est interprété par François Wolman ; Henry et Marie sont interprétés par Renaud Sebbane et Hélène Renaut ; la musique est composée, arrangée et interprétée par Shirley Song. Le scénario est un collage des propres écrits d’Henry et Marie tirés de Mumbo Jumbo (1923) et Once Upon A Time in La Napoule, les mémoires de Marie publiés en 1998.

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LingeringLovers_CannesImmersive_Trailer from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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The Lingering Lovers / Les Amants Eternels (WIP2) from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

Work-in-progress -- experimental narrative video short, live action and painting-in-motion animation, running time: 6 minutes 15 seconds.

The Lingering Lovers sequences documentations of abstractly animated fresque lumineuse or “light fresco” video projections with voiceover audio quotes from American expatriate artists Henry and Marie Clews on a flirtatiously contentious “date night” across the chateau towers they loved.

In 1918 — Henry and Marie, sculptor and musician/architect, respectively — acquired the ancient chateau, repurposing it over two decades into Henry’s artist’s studio and Marie’s gardens. Despite Henry’s radical conservatism, poignantly and ironically, the chateau was occupied by Nazis who labeled Henry’s art degenerate after his death in 1937.

Marie survived the occupation to create their foundation, which hosts global artist residencies year round. As a former artist resident of the chateau, the Clews’ energies communicated with me onsite when I researched this project. It is said the Clews’ spirits dance in the moonlight in an enclosed room atop their mausoleum tower where their remains are interred.

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MBIF_live projections from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

Documentation of live-mixed single channel painting-in-motion animation video loops projected on architecture at Maybe It’s Fate social club and gallery, Louisville, KY

Each of these remixed video animations originates from animation video made over three performance evenings, with several additional all-nighter shoots and reshoots at the Chateau de la Napoule during The Lingering Lovers exhibition in Mandelieu-la Napoule, France.

Originally projected onto the towers and facades of the chateau, these were recorded and modified into monitor works and exhibited in solo show Modulated Modularities at College of the Redwoods’ Floyd Bettiga Gallery, curated by LL Kessner in Eureka, CA; and in group show Let’s Start With Beauty at Maybe It’s Fate / Orbit Gallery, curated by Rebecca Norton in Louisville, KY. The projections on this buildings facade rethink the compositions, orchestrations, and layerings of their source material.

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ADVRTSNG / SPRKLR / FLYING V 2024 from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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Les Amants Persistants / The Lingering Lovers, teaser 1, WIP (2023-4) from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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20_N4T+C4C from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

Matt Sheridan's large scale painting-in-motion video projection Noodles for Tony / Curry for Chas was viewable at TWFINEART's satellite space TWFAx2 under the W Hotel Brisbane at 300 George Street, Brisbane QLD Australia, from 18 November - 1 December 2018.

Curry For Chas (three channel, 2 minute loop, 2018) transitioned from an expanded-length, full color work from a black and white, 1 minute version entitled Noodles for Tony. Building upon the constructivist expressionism of Noodles, Curry for Chas suspended Japanese-inflected marks into a saturated color palette referencing signage found in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where expatriate Sheridan traveled with his father Chas in 2009. Chas, not a fan of curry, was on a Quixotic quest to find a hamburger while in India; in retaliation, Sheridan threatened a breakfast of sushi and beer during an expected 16 hour layover in Japan thwarted by Chas' airline's last-minute schedule change. Curry for Chas explores power dynamics of that conversation using the abstract visual language of painting-in-motion.

Sheridan's summer of 2018 was bookended by the passing of Anthony Bourdain in June and Chas in September, which interrupted Sheridan's production of the work for the W Hotel. Sheridan's latest works aim to make something beautiful from conflicted feelings of loss and memory in a travel context dear to all three men involved in the work.

Curry For Chas was made possible by a collaboration between TWFINEART and W Hotel Brisbane, curated by Tove Langridge and Anyssa Chorvat.

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SBSE4vimeo from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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FLLWR4Vimeo from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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CWP_doc_wTC_Vimeo from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

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Fragmentosis (2019) from Matt Sheridan on Vimeo.

RT: 3:13 minute loop, painting-in-motion video, dimensions variable, 2019.

2018 Pollock Krasner Grant Awardee Matt Sheridan presented a fresh body of paintings and paintings-in-motion in his solo exhibition 'Schemattitudes', his fourth gallery presentation at TWFINEART in Brisbane, Australia curated by gallery director Tove Langridge.

A Schematic Attitude or 'Schemattitude' exemplifies Sheridan’s recent choice to both slow down the read of his work and to strip his process down to its core elements by severely limiting his color palettes and working on raw canvas. The raw canvas works, which Sheridan refers to as “nudes,” are as defiantly “natural” as his work has previously been “artificial” painted on prepared grounds.

When asked recently what he was doing with abstract painting, Sheridan responded he aims to generate dynamic ranges of noise, movement and feeling while programming limited sets of painterly actions and the constraints they provide into each work. Strokes, splatters, scrapes, folds, “noodles” and sprays are among the delineated repeated elements in his paintings and painting-in-motion animated videos Noodles for Tony, Curry for Chas (both 2018) and now here in Fragmentosis.

When combined with specific colour systems, conflicts arise while rematerializing elements of each work onto canvas or into animation from its origin of digital collage. Dominant qualities of each interaction grouped within each work — whether organic, mechanical, material or design-based — define a meaning reflected in each title.

This video documentation was recorded with an iPhone SE at 6am Monday 12 August by the artist. Poster image photographed by Juan Leyva Thursday 15 August at TWFINEART gallery.

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Thrilled, honored and grateful to be a 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee. #pollockkrasnerfoundation #contemporarypainting #2018grantee #apply #humbled #backtowork #comingsoon 👊 . . . thanks again @twfineart @fountainheadresidency @dan.mikesell @ombrainbow for steadfastly encouraging my painting practice🙏 . . . #contemporaryart #當代藝術 #当代艺术 #현대미술 #現代美術 #abstractpainting #抽象绘画 #추상 #그림 #추상그림 #抽象画 #twfineart #laartist #mattsheridan #paintinginmotion #videoart (at Los Angeles, California)

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BRISBANE 2017

Matt Sheridan’s painting-in-motion commission Exchange(s) — First State premiered at Brisbane, Australia’s Teneriffe Festival, lighting up the historic London Wool Store Saturday evening 1 July 2017.

The public urban projection coincided with a gallery takeover event at TWFINEART June 29 - July 2 during which Sheridan was present to preview a suite of new paintings and paintings-in-motion derived from the projection.

Produced by Jillian Kingsford-Smith and TWFINEART director Tove Langridge, this commission was made courtesy of a Brisbane City Council Festival Funding Grant with the full support of councillor Vicki Howard.

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#tbt Conversations, acrylic on canvas, 72"x 60" / 183 x 152 cm, 2017 . . “Plastic forces are more machinelike than they are mechanical… the living organism, on the contrary, has an internal destiny that makes it move from fold to fold… matter is folded twice, once under elastic forces, a second time under plastic forces, but one is not able to move form the first to the second. Thus the universe is neither a great living being, nor is it in itself an animal: Leibniz rejects this hypothesis as much as he rejects that of a universal spirit.” — Gilles Deleuze, “The Pleats of Matter,” from The Fold, 1988 . . . #contemporaryart #當代藝術 #当代艺术 #현대미술 #現代美術 #abstractpainting #抽象绘画 #추상 #그림 #추상그림 #抽象画 #twfineart #laartist #mattsheridan (at Boyle Heights Recreation Center)

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#tbt Pitching n’ Catching, acrylic on canvas, 22" x 26" / 56 x 66 cm, 2016 sitting on the floor of an office, homeless, wrapped in plastic. “if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” — my co-pilot F.N. . . . #contemporaryart #當代藝術 #当代艺术 #현대미술 #現代美術 #abstractpainting #抽象绘画 #추상 #그림 #추상그림 #抽象画 #twfineart #laartist #mattsheridan (at Boyle heights//east los baby)