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Title:	Colin Matthes: The Days Go By Like Wildness
Date:	4/28/2023 - 7/23/2023
Address:	James Watrous Gallery, Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street, Madison, WI 53703
Location:	Madison, WI
Hours:	Thursday - Fri day: 12:00pm - 6:00pm • Saturday: 11:00am - 5:00pm • Sunday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/gallery/colin-matthes-days- ...
Contact Info:	608.733.6633

Details:

Colin Matthes’ art is rooted in improvisation and resourcefulness. As a young man growing up in a remote, rural area, Matthes learned to work with whatever was at hand. In 2011 he was living on Ireland’s desolate west coast, and began cataloguing the skills and information he’d need to survive without outside help. This inspired Matthes’ ongoing series of “Essential Knowledge” drawings, which cover everything from surviving shark and grizzly attacks or escaping a riptide to reading body language and the safe way to move a heavy object. More recently he has been drawing without an agenda, using the quiet hours after his children’s bedtime to let his pencil or brush roam freely with his imagination. With this unfettered approach, Matthes finds that (in his young daughter’s words) “the days go by like wildness.”