Matt Eich Exhibits in "Eclipse" at Blue Sky Gallery

July 26, 2017 jennifer

Total Solar Eclipse Viewing Party with Blue Sky
Monday, August 21
9am-12pm

The Eclipse Show is curated by Blue Sky co-founder and photographer Christopher Rauschenberg. The exhibition will feature over 100 artists in honor of the total eclipse of the sun in Oregon on August 21, 2017.

Matt Eich Presents Carry Me Ohio at Rencontre d'Arles Nuit de l’Année 2017

July 22, 2017 jennifer

Now that it has debuted, we are pleased to publicly share the video Matt Eich prepared for Rencontre d'Arles 2017. Eich was invited to create a video presentation of his Carry Me Ohio work for the French photography festival's Nuit de l’Année.

In the nearly 50 years of its operation, the festival has evolved into a springboard for creativity celebrating the media, and drawing patrons from around the world. In 2016 the festival was visited by more than 100,000 people. We are honored to have had work by one of our represented artists appear as part of this noteworthy event.

Matt Eich in MoCA Clevland "Constant as the Sun"

June 15, 2017 jennifer

MoCA Cleveland selected ten artists or artist collectives, and features new and recent work that explores diverse approaches to portraying, building, and connecting community.

Matt Eich Awarded VMFA Fellowship

February 23, 2017 jennifer

Congratulations to Matt Eich who received a Professional Fellowship award from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Eich was the only photographer selected for the 2017-2018 year. Christopher Bedford, of the Baltimore Museum of Art was juror of this year's Professional Awards.

Recent Press: "Carry Me Ohio" by Matt Eich

October 28, 2016 jennifer

Beyond the boundaries of our San Diego venue, the work is the subject of major editorial attention, including from CNN, The New Yorker, PDN, and Photograph Magazine.

Excerpt from PDN

In muddy yards and dark bars, at kitchen tables and in trailers, Eich’s subjects smoke and talk, nap and drink, acting out a rich life with limited resources. An odd assortment of animals appear throughout—a zebra in a snowy backyard, ferrets at bath time, a troupe of all-white cats. Like his images of pristine woods and green grass, these connect Eich’s subjects to the cyles of the land. But nature and domestic life pause at the center of the book, in a full page spread showing the grey pit of a strip mine being worked by heavy machines. Writes Eich in the book, “Mining corporations stripped Appalachia of its resources from the 1820s to the 1960s. After taking all that they could, the corporations departed, leaving former boomtowns with little but their cultural identity.” His images record the results of that era, as residents “attempt to recover in the aftermath of extractive industry,” struggling through poverty to raise the next generation with the same strong, stubborn connection to this land. The book, he writes, “is my love song to Ohio.”

Picturing Justice with work by Matt Eich at Atlanta Legal Aid Society

October 1, 2016 jennifer

Congratulations to Matt Eich who is included in Picturing Justice a photography exhibition presented by the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., curated by Mary Stanley & Louise Shaw held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Learn more about this exhibition