Creating environments has always been my thing. Early on I realized to create art it had to be an interior experience, encapsulating a multi-sensory environment. A piece on a wall isn't always enough. However, with the advent of the Internet, these environments can be viewed from one location by multiple people at any given time.
Object and viewer are what create an experience. My interest is in exploring the energy created between these two poles. I call this energy gap, the Electric Waste Land. Imagery is the catalyst to invoking the relation. My images are abstracted from Jungian Archetypes and Alchemtical metaphors and expressed in various media. Whether it is in paint on wood or in a sound composition, the elements remain consistant.
Solo Shows
Matthew Penna: Digital Media Artist
Online Gallery, published September 1997
The Electric Waste Land
Multimedia installation; The Bean Bag, Greenville, NC May 1996
Publications
Slave Magazine Punk Fanzine,
featured digital pieces issues 2, 3, 4 1998-2000
Business Life Magazine:
Advertisment for SpyderByte Communications, June 1997
The Rhinonaucerous Times:
Advertisment for SpyderByte Communications, May 1997
Group Shows
Allez Art: Group show at the Haight Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA September 2001
DeBasement:
Multimedia exhibit, San Francisco, CA June 2000
Gate City Noise
Bimonthly circulation, Greensboro, NC March 2000
Galleria
: Four Person exhibit, Greensboro, NC April 1999
The Vera Gallery:
Two person exhibit, Greensboro, NC February 1999
SUBMISSION
: Non-juried poster art show, The Paddock Club, Greenville, NC April 1996
Mendenhall Series:
Monthly showing of work at Mendenhall Student Center, Greenville, NC 1995–1996
Welcome to Oblivion:
Guerilla performace; The Southeastern Scupture Conference, Greenville, NC October 1995
Bauhaus Gallery
, Wilmington, NC Summer 1995
East Carolina University Undergrauate Show
: Juried show; The Grey Gallery, Greenville, NC Spring 1995
Halls, Walls, Floors and Stage:
Performance Art Festival; The Wilson Theatre, Wilson, NC March 1995
Gender/ Secular/ Object:
Traveling mail art show, Greenville, NC Wilmingotn, NC - various venues, November 1994–1995
UNITY
Multimedia show: The Paddock Club, Greenville, NC October 1994