Artist Matt Foley - insider information

Matt Foley has had an interesting life, is well educated and is multi-talented. Highlights of biographical interest are provided herein. As an artist, Matt Foley is certainly a maverick, an individualist often shunned by the art establishment and ignored by mainstream society but Foley is an intrepid explorer, plumbing the depths of his own psyche and perservering in the realization of his personal visions.

Matt Foley: what about him, what are people saying, what's the scoop?

"(Matt Foley is a) Central mythopoeic mind...restless talent in search of objectification...creating poetry through the controlled explosion of intellect and energy...generating an entire art world as he casts about."
NEW ART EXAMINER

"(Matt Foley is) A modern mystic...an adroit visionary...translating the seething gamut of sensory and ultra-sensory stimuli into a dynamic fusion of paint, perception and personality."
VORTEXT MAGAZINE

"(Matt Foley is) An impresario of progressive art forms - all art forms."
MORNING EDITION, KMUW 89.1 PUBLIC RADIO

"(Matt Foley has) A solid reputation in all media...a one man crusader for the arts...a religious artist with a sense of humor."
WICHITA EAGLE

"(Matt Foley is) An award-winning...internationally-known artist...an alchemical distillery of experiences, emotions and extrapolations."
SUNFLOWER

"(Matt Foley,) The consumate artist...glib, articulate, mischieveous, perservering, colorful."
EAST WICHITA MAGAZINE

"(Matt Foley is) Socially conscious...Bible belt grassroots abstractionist."
AMERICAN ARTISTS: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF LEADING CONTEMPORARIES

"(Matt Foley) He's the 'hero' out of a story book...intriguing, experimental...very intelligent...a true artist."
NORTHEAST REPORT

EDUCATION

C. Matt Foley, an award-winning artist, has three degrees, with Honors (cum Laude), in Conceptual and Structural Engineering in Composite Materials, Ocular Dynamics and Metamorphic Chemistry. He received his degrees from Wichita State University. He also studied at the University of Oklahoma. Foley was included in a number of President's and Dean's Honor rolls during his college career.

While at the University of Oklahoma, he was the only student to have ever received major Addy Awards in Oklahoma City. He was awarded two Gold Medals - for Best Outdoor Campaign and Best Humor Campaign and was additionally recognized with other Addy's as well.

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In the eighties, Matt Foley ramped up as an art activist, organizing exhibitions and promoting the work of other artists pusuing diverse expressions. He founded the Nepenthe Mundi Society -- an organization comprised of artists, art historians, teachers, citics and other professionals -- and began the Emerald City Classic - an international art competition that provided recognition to outstanding artists in a variety of fields. Although the Emerald City Classic (the name has been appropriated by a Seattle vent two decades later) was decidely before its time in many respects -- such as being based solely on the documentation of artwork -- it proved to be a mark of high status for many emerging or established artists who needed that level of critical acclaim and encouragement, something many are still very proud of.

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