My mind was in Kurdistan

I was approached by one of my friends from RMIT Rushdi Anwar earlier this year to participate in a group show when he visited Kurdistan during the spring. For the the past month my sculpture my mind was on display at Sadram Gallery in Kurdistan. Pretty awesome. Here's some pictures and details.

KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT
MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND YOUTH

GENERAL DIRECTOR OF ART IN SULEMANI
DIRECTOR OF THE FINE ARTS IN SULEMANI
www.kcaic.com

Group Exhibition " Untitled "
The essential quality of art inherited in its international language. It can find its own ‘home’ wherever it goes. Thereby, the boundaries are crossed and there artists, coming from different parts of the world, meet in Sulemani- Kurdistan. It presents its own authentic form.

Arlene Amaler Raviv
Caroline Kennedy - McCracken
Elmedin Zunic
Fernando Garcia Vasquez
Hua Cun Chen
Kavin Viasuwan
Krishnamurti Suparka
Matt Mincoff
Melanie Jayne Taylor
Polly Stanton
Rushdi Anwar
Steph Bolt
Trudy Moor

new superimposition

Updates are happening over at my phototumblr superimposition.
There is a lot of focus on landscapes going on at the moment which i am really excited about 
. click below and have a look for yourself

Dundas Valley School of Art Annual Auction

 

If you are interested in acquiring some of my original artwork this is a great opportunity to win a couple of acrylic paintings. Good Luck!

  follow DVSA via http://dvsarenovationproject.blogspot.com/ and @DVSA2010

Guess What!!??

I've got an artist talk going on this Thursday 28 April 2011 at the White House Studio Project Located at #277.5 Augusta Ave. Toronto, Ont. come out and listen to me talk about fantastic and strange interactions where science and art make contemporary culture.


Matt Mincoff is an artist/sculptor from Hamilton Ontario and has studied at OCAD (BFA 2007) and RMIT Melbourne (MFA 2010). His practice is an exploration of what is unknown and how can we communicate what should be unexplainable. With this focus on the unknown he has worked with the concepts of the mind, ghosts, identity, invisibility, spirit, relationships and n-dimensional geometry through various approaches to objects, installation, images, sounds and video.
The workshop will discuss various topics that Mincoff has been recently working on through his art practice with slide presentations of his work and relevant media to support the concepts under the title “seeing beyond looking through”.
(website: http://mattmincoff.blogspot.com/)
Doors @ 7pm
Lecture starts at 7:30 sharp
PWYC!
Click here for Facebook event page.

more me myself and maple

Kelly Rowland motivates me

to make a clip of one mediocre trick. swag

skate mail

Got a message today from the great and mighty OZNAK with this single trick he shot on his iphone of me behind the RMIT gallery on a lazy afternoon after an art opening. Thanks dude!

Steamboat Opera Album Cover

A childhood friend of mine Chris Martin recently contacted me about doing some cover art for his new music project Steamboat Opera. What i made for him is a digital collage of images of the Apollo 11 launch and recovery juxtaposed with the sinking of the steamboat Cheslakee and the area surrounding where it sank off of Texada Island B.C. Here is a sample of that collage without the titling and track info.



and if you are wondering what Steamboat Opera will sound like have a listen below

Steamboat Opera by SteamboatOpera

It's always fun to do projects with different people and for different projects. i am looking forward to seeing how these turn out after the text and logos go on them. I'll be sure to post the final product when it surfaces.
Also be sure to check out Steamboat Opera on Facebook

upgraded

I realized today I needed to update my online presence a little, clean up the layout a bit here on the blog and get some content i've been meaning to uploaded posted. Taken care of.
With the ever growing amount of content i am producing and posting i have created a new portal page to more easily navigate my all of my projects both present and past.
click below to check it out




























the plan was to keep the page clean/simple and basic screen captures suited the job nicely. I am planning on updating them from time to time as pages progress or just as i like. also be sure to check out the two new projects: still pending title 2011 and superimposition for new images of artworks.

 add it to your bookmarks
http://mattmincoff.blogspot.com/

thank you if you read through this redundant blog about blogging (TL;DR)

i make art

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at a Master level now . cool beans. all finished the RMIT MFA program and graduation will be over the next couple of weeks. give me a holler and we'll tip some glasses in celebration.

Madness

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Matt Mincoff - 2010

new work up

i have a few new sculptures up over at my Art blog "External Interior"

click the image to check it out

Tomorrow Night

is my first Art opening in Australia
its part of the re-opening of the Vic Bar 281 Victoria street Abbostford

hopefully friday morning will have photos to share!

been busy in the studio

to see more of this installation and other artwork check out my MFA tumblr: External Interior here...

we're always watching

mattmincoff2010

this is who i was, am and will be

this is baby me.

when i was really little we had this silverado truck i used to stick drawings on postit notes all over inside. i somehow still have one..

this is probably eight year old me.. maybe a cool moment in a awkward phase..

i drew this when i was six or so… it's what i thought i'd look like as a grown up.. kinda scary how on point it is..


the past is a confusing friend.

messages from the past

i'm gonna guess from five years or so ago.. i found while packing

the most significant object in my life

my first skateboard. 13 years old

classic collage

probably from 2004

trying to remember

2003




2004


these are from a few cd's i found while packing
it all seems like so long ago..