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Matt Foley has generated a certain amount of public interest over the years and the Media has often kept pace with coverage of his efforts and endeavors.
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living" - Plato
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PHANTOM ART GALLERY PROJECT |
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| In May of 1990, Matt Foley launched the Phantom Art Gallery Project - soon becoming the world's largest walk-by art exhibition. Artwork was display in empty windows throughout the Wichita downtown area. |
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Matt Foley created the Phantom Art Gallery Project in 1990. At its apex, the Project encompassed 12 city blocks of windows, half an indoor shopping center and a number of other satellite locations. People took notice and the media provided extensive coverage. CLICK HERE to access the media coverage |
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| PHILANTHROPY - ART INFORMATION |
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| C. Matthew Foley has a documented history of generosity. His most gracious was the donation of an extensive collection of contemporary Native American artwork to the Indian Center Museum in Wichita, Kansas. |
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Foley Collection - Indian Museum, Wichita Eagle editorial |
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| Indian Center gets art by Susan Rife, Wichita Eagle |
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| Hail to the Chief - art article about painting sent with Russia's 1st President, Boris Yeltsin |
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| SOLO EXHIBITS |
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WHERE ARE MY SUNGLASSES? - W.S.U. McFarland Gallery, Aug. - Sept. 1991 |
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News Channel 3 - Foley's exhibit, "Where are my sunglasses" |
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| CAC to host Foley's exhibit by Angela Reed - Sunflower |
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| Where Are My Sunglasses? - Foley solo exhibit - 1991, Wichita Eagle article |
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| M + M = M - W.S.U. McFarland Gallery, 1988 |
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| Society's malice reflects in madness of alumnus' art by Eric Weidman |
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| YOU'VE GOTTA SWING TO MAKE A HIT - W.S.U. McFarland Gallery, Nov. 1986 |
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Exhibit opens in style by R.W. Bottorff - Sunflower |
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| Abstracts on Display - Wichita Eagle |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| Matt Foley is a well recognized art activist. Over the years, Foley has organized and curated many group exhibitions - to promote other area artists and community creatives. Poetry readings, musical performances and other cultural venues often played a role in these events. Listed below are notices and reviews for some of the notable exhibitions by Matt Foley. |
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| In the 1980's, C. Matthew Foley coordinated and curated a number of exhibits ranging in size from massive to intimate. Matt Foley put together four large exhibitions for the Nepenthe Mundi Society that displayed in the Century II Convention Center Concert Hall. This series exhibitions garnered national, as well as local, media interest and coverage. |
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NEW ART EXAMINER Magazine Review - Quarter Mile of Art by Richard Leslie, Ph.D., November 1987 |
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| Quarter Mile of Art - Nepenthe Mundi Society - Public Radio Art Review by Richard Leslie, Ph.D., May 1987 |
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| "Dare To Be Different" was the first of four massive art exhibitions Matt Foley organized and curated for the secret art organization. |
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Exhibit features abstract, dimensional work - Dare to be Different, Nepenthe Mundi Society - Sunflower article |
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| Wichita Eagle - Dare to be Different, Nepenthe Mundi Society - article |
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| CityLife Magazine - Dare to be Different, Nepenthe Mundi Society - article |
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