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Comprised of intimate portraits of participants of “Pageant of the Masters”, an annual arts festival held in Laguna Beach, California, Rolston’s photographic subjects reenact pivotal historical figures and works from art history, from antiquity through 20th century modernism.
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ART PEOPLE: THE PAGEANT PORTRAITS is a body of work by...
- Works
Matthew Rolston. Da Vinci, The Last Supper (Jesus Christ),...
- Installation: Laguna Art Museum
MATTHEW ROLSTON: ART PEOPLE OPENED at Laguna Art Museum in...
- Documentary
DOCUMENTARY. ART PEOPLE: THE PAGEANT PORTRAITS. THIS EXCERPT...
- Podcast
Kicking off the third season of ArtCenter College of...
- Museum Catalogue
MUSEUM CATALOGUE . TRADE AND COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS....
- Catalogue Essays
Rolston’s Art People is the product of an extended series of...
- Selected Press
The Art of Matthew Rolston. By Tom Teicholz. Matthew...
- Artist Bio / CV
MATTHEW RUSSELL ROLSTON IS AN AMERICAN ARTIST, photographer,...
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The Art People exhibition catalogue, published by Laguna Art...
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- Highlighted Exhibition History
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- Education
- Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- Selected Public Collections
- Selected Talks and Lectures
- Selected Affiliations
Rolston has been the subject of numerous institutional and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, which have led to a series of publications authored by the artist. Rolston has shown work at institutions including The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA; Barbican Art Ga...
Five monographs have been published of Rolston’s work: Big Pictures: A Book of Photographs(1991) is a collection of early photographs published by Bulfinch Press, New York. beautyLIGHT: Pictures at a Magazine(2008) is a survey drawn from twenty years of Rolston’s celebrity portrait photographs published by teNeues, Germany. Talking Heads: The Vent ...
1989 Film Program, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA 1978 Photography & Imaging, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA 1976 Drawing & Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1975 Drawing & Painting, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA 1974 Drawing & Painting, Chouinard Art Institute, California Institute of th...
2021 Matthew Rolston, Art People: The Pageant Portraits, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 2018 Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 2018 Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Art People: The Pageant Portraits, Ralph Pucci LA, Los Angeles, ...
2021/2022 Installation(with Varnette Honeywood, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sadie Barnette, and others), curated by Laura Dvorkin and Maynard Monrow, The Bunker Artspace | The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach, FL 2021 On the Edge, Los Angeles Art 1970s-1990s from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection(with Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Mic...
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
2022 William Mortensen at 125: A Virtual Panel Conversation, with gallerist Stephen Romano, photographic historian Deborah Irmas, author and editor Michael Moynihan, Ph.D., and documentary filmmaker Brian Chidester, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 2021 In Conversation: Matthew Rolston, with cultural critic Christina Binkley, Laguna Art Museum, ...
Member, Directors Guild of America Adjunct Professor and Curricular Advisor to the Undergradutate and Graduate Film Departments, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA Board Member, FullCircle Alumni Association, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA Juror, AIA Architecture Photography Awards, Los Angeles, CA
Matthew Rolston. Da Vinci, The Last Supper (Jesus Christ), Pageant Makeup Template, 2016 (Courtesy Fahey/Klein, Los Angeles). This group of photographs furthers Rolston’s investigations into the nature of portraiture and the methods by which society and the human condition are mediated through artwork and art creation.
Matthew Russell Rolston is an American artist, photographer, director and creative director, [1] known for his lighting techniques [2] and detailed approach to art direction and design. Rolston has been identified throughout his career with the revival and modern expression of Hollywood glamour.
In the summer of 2021, Laguna Art Museum presents Rolston’s first institutional solo exhibition on the West Coast, Art People: The Pageant Portraits, curated by Dr. Malcolm Warner, LAM’s former executive director.
Jul 3, 2021 · Matthew Rolston, a noted celebrity and fine art photographer who has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, said he first went to the Pageant of the Masters when he was a mere 8...
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Aug 16, 2021 · Celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston, known for lush portraits of actors and musicians, took a different approach in “Art People,” his exhibition of 2016 Pageant photographs currently at...
