FIVE BRONX ARTISTS CHOSEN FOR GOVERNORS ISLAND RESIDENCY, By Camryn Quick / September 18, 2021.
"The six artists are among 115 artists chosen from across the city. The initiative was a joint effort by The Trust for Governors Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and 17 other cultural organizations. While the artists do not receive a stipend for the residency, they are given a free space to work that is maintained by the sponsoring gallery, as well as the opportunity for greater exposure for their work. The Brooklyn-based artist selected, Mateo Gutierrez, creates work that is geared toward representing the Latinx community. He focuses on lengthy painting projects that involve immigration and gun violence in America. Gutierrez commends the BronxArtSpace for giving artists of color an opportunity to share their work with the community."
Currently: Bronx Art Space Governors Island Residency, September 1 through October 31, 2021.
"The program responds to a crucial need for studio space and professional development opportunities for emerging artists. The 6 chosen artists will set up one exhibition including the results of their residency at the end of their time on Colonels Row. Founded and opened to the public in 2010 as a space for art exhibits and performances, BronxArtSpace is a community-based organization committed to supporting local and often under-resourced artists, fostering projects that engage vital social, educational, and political concerns."
Forthcoming 2021: New American Painting
Mateo Gutierrez will be included in Issue 152 juried exhibition of "East Coast" new American painters.
MOCA L.I.GHTS 2020, November 5 - 8, 2020
"MoCA L.I.ghts has begun to transform the Village of Patchogue into Long Island’s first open-air museum and make it the arts destination of 2020! From November 5 – 8, 2020, the facades of contemporary and historic buildings, the PTPA Marquee, and PAC’s pop-up inflatable gallery screen will illuminate the Village with projected artworks, animation, and innovative site-specific media works created by local, national, and international artists."
A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine, Elisa Wouk Almino, Hyperallergic, August 7th, 2020
"This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Tennessee, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York, and DC.This is the 172nd installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. In light of COVID-19, we’ve asked participants to reflect on how the pandemic has changed their studio space and/or if they are focusing on particular projects while quarantining."
In Year Four, Nasty Women Returns To Its Roots, Lucy Gellman, New Haven Arts Council website, March 3rd, 2020
"On an opposite wall, viewers are greeted with Mateo Gutiérrez mixed media And I Feel Fine (US-Mexico border & El Paso Texas), a huge multimedia piece where acrylic paint, color pencil, and pastel fuse to meet glossy, bright embroidery and thick thread. Come close enough to the piece, and the embroidery is its own work within a work, strands overlapping to form cheeks and hands.
At a distance, the piece unfolds in two horrifying vignettes, both ripped from the headlines. On the left, a mother stoops down to comfort her son, eyes shielded and facing the ground..." >> more
"Mateo Gutierrez’s acrylic painting, “And I Feel Fine,” depicts a Latina mother clutching her son and a rifle-wielding man helping a wounded woman. The Brooklyn artist got his artwork’s title from the REM song “The End of the World as We Know It.” “As we put children on the border in cages and have mass shootings, we carry on and say ‘It’ll be fine’ and ‘I feel fine.’ It often feels like the end of the world but we’re not making the psychological shift we need to make.” Gutierrez’s canvas is tearaway stabilizer, the background to embroidery fabric. “I use that for conceptual purposes. It’s the story behind what we actually see.” The faces are embroidered, he said, to show “the thread of pain that goes through time.”
Field Projects Gallery, "Hoarders House"
Online exhibition, curated by Christin Graham, Sam Trioli, Rachel Frank, Kristen Racaniello, Jacob Rhodes & Muriel Urquhart, NY, NY. January 2020.