Matt Scobey: Case Study Selected Works 2018-2025

Scobey creates works, installations and furniture that invite curious interaction. Responsive to public space and everyday materials, Scobey's work experiments with how to frame the encounter in projects that range from sculptural interventions in a grocery store or a cardboard living room where museum goers can relax from social media to high design objects reconceived with Arte Povera materials. His studio practice often results in stacked  culptural work – in concrete, stone, wood, cast acrylic, neodymium magnets and cast earth – that transmit and reflect natural light dependent on where the sun is located in relation to the viewer and the work. His work explores material energy, transmission, site, form and scale.
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The Unending Stream: Chapter I

The Unending Stream is a two-part exhibition that showcases the thriving community of photographers in New Orleans. The title of the exhibition pays homage to a Clarence John Laughlin photograph of the same title, which is a part of the permanent collection at Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Laughlin’s seminal work, created between the 1930s and 1950s, is an important chapter in the long-storied relationship between New Orleans and photography. Following in his visionary footsteps, this exhibition focuses on emerging and underrepresented photographers who continue to focus on the South through poetic imagery.The Unending Stream celebrates New Orleans’ continuing role as one of America’s most important cultural capitals while also highlighting the role that the arts have played in revitalizing the region for the past twenty years since Hurricane Katrina.
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Crescent Cityscapes Images of New Orleans from the Permanent Collection

Since its beginning, the City of New Orleans has been both a subject and a muse to generations of artists. This exhibition will draw primarily from the permanent collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art to show how artists have portrayed the Crescent City through drawings, paintings, photographs and prints. From 19th century street scenes to contemporary abstractions, these works show the deep and lasting influence of the built environment and natural light of New Orleans upon the visual arts.
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