Matt Ducklo
Tomorrow is a Long Time
March 25 – April 26, 2015
Lives and works in Memphis, TN
Education
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1996 Bachelor of Arts, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2015 Tomorrow is a Long Time, Launch F18, New York, NY
2012 The Minds Eye, with Matthew Monteith, Hermes Foundation / Gallery at
Hermes, New York, NY
2008 Touch Tour Pictures, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2007 Touch Tour Pictures, Power House, Memphis, TN
2003 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2002 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Project Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2015 Gray Would Be The Color, If I Had A Heart, Marc Straus, New York, NY
2013 Elements, Rudiments and Principles, Boston University Art Gallery,
Boston, MA
Present Tense, Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN
2012 These Transitional Spaces, curated by Seth Kelly, Franklin Street Works,
Stamford, CT
Data Trash, curated by Chris Dorland, I-20, New York, NY
Situation, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, New York, NY
2010 Housed, Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY
2009 Insomnia, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY
2008 Cosmological Embeddedness, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2005 A Touch of Glamour?, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
2004 Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
News from Home, White Box Annex, New York, NY
Under the Sun, Greener Pastures Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
People Pictures, curated by Roe Ethridge, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Pulse of America, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2003 Without Fear or Reproach, Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
2002 I Just Can't Pretend, curated by Dan Torop, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
End of the Rainbow, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
2001 All American, curated by Ellen Altfest, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Pogo Stick, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
Bibliography
2015 Dafoe, Taylor. Matt Ducklo: Tomorrow Is A Long Time. The Brooklyn Rail,
May 6, 2015
Istomina, Tatiana. Matt Ducklo: Tomorrow Is A Long Time at Launch F18.
Arte Fuse, April 23, 2015
Jacobs, Cory. Memphis After Dark. Interview Magazine, April 7, 2015
2013 McQuaid, Cate. Area Art Galleries. Boston Globe, Dec. 3, 2013
Sadler, Marilyn. The Art of Now. Memphis Magazine. Contemporary Media,
Inc., March, 2013
Mullaney, Jennette. Photographer Interview: Experiencing Art through Touch.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I.e. The Met Museum. N.p., 8 Feb. 2013.
2012 Dixon, Erin. Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith In Conversation. Dossier
Journal., 15 Mar. 2012.
Browne, Alix. Points of View: Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith at
Hermes. The New York Times Magazine, 14 March 2012.
2009 Kurczynski, Karen. Touch Made Visible. Blackflash Fall 2009: 32-42 & cover
Dykstra, Jean. Matt Ducklo. Art in America, no. 4, April 2009, pp. 150–1
2008 Kramer, Vanessa. On my mind… Foam, no. 16, Fall, p. 16
Coakley, John. Touch Tour Pictures. Soho Journal. 1 Dec. 2008.
Kazakina, Katya. Edison Train Flick Inspires Simpson; Blind Perceptions:
Hot Art. Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, 9 Dec. 2008.
Douglas, Sarah, and David Grosz. Medium-Voltage Volta. Artinfo. Blouin, 3
June 2008.
Sadler, Marilyn. Frame of Reference. Memphis Magazine., August. 2008.
2007 Birch, Ion. Ion Birch in conversation with Matt Ducklo. Freight+Volume, Issue
2, Winter, pp. 108–113
Knowles, Carol. Readings. Memphis Flyer, May 24–30
Koeppel, Fredric. Matt Ducklo; 'Touch Tour Pictures. Commercial Appeal,
May 11
2006 Work in Progress. V Magazine, October
2005 Howard, Chris. Queens International 2004. The Brooklyn Rail.1 Feb. 2005.
2004 Queens International 2004. Jameswagner.com. N.p., 10 Nov. 2004.
2003 Krinsky, Jesse. One on One. Hartford Courant, June 19, 2003.
2002 Matt Ducklo. Tokion Magazine, March/April, 2002.
2001 Mahoney, Robert. All American. Time Out New York, August 2–9, 2001.
Cotter, Holland. All American. The New York Times, August 3, 2001.
Like so many, photographer Matt Ducklo seems to have a complicated relationship with his hometown. He was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and around 2010, after a decade-long stint in New York, he moved back there.
When I first saw Matt Ducklo’s photographs of Memphis at Launch F18 Gallery, I didn’t immediately connect them with my own experience of that city, which I visited over ten years ago. Although Ducklo is originally from Memphis, he had lived in New York for a long time before returning to his home town.
Featuring images by photographer Matt Ducklo, "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" presents the viewer with start black-and-white images of Memphis, a city viewers have most likely seen in color through William Eggleston's eyes.