SUMMER SALON
JONAS MEKAS, MIA KATRINA GUILE, STEVE PRINCE, ALEXANDREA PROCIDA, JEAN-DANIEL LORIEUX, IVAN PLUSCH, OLGA TOBRELUTS, GEORGE PAPADAKIS, CHRISTOPHER B. WAGNER,
PUBLIC OPENING
Friday, July 17 • 5–8 p.m.
Matney Gallery invites you to the public opening of the Summer Salon, an exhibition bringing together artists whose work explores memory, visual culture, material presence, and public meaning.
We hope you will join us for an evening of conversation and discovery as we celebrate one of Matney Gallery’s most ambitious Summer Salons.
Matney Gallery’s Summer Salon brings together artists whose works move through memory, light, cinema, abstraction, nostalgia, mythology, fashion, sculpture, civic reflection, and public gathering.
The exhibition begins with Jonas Mekas, whose Frozen Frames are now at Matney Gallery following the 2026 presentation of Still Beautiful in My Memory at the Andrews Gallery at the College of William & Mary. These rarely exhibited framed still images offer a powerful lens through which to understand the Salon: art as a means of holding time, preserving fragments, and giving form to lived experience.
Monday, July 20 is the final day to purchase or reserve the framed Mekas exhibition prints currently on view. The works will leave Matney Gallery on August 5 for exhibitions in New Jersey.
The gallery will subsequently present and market a separate selection of available works by Mekas, including additional prints beyond the current Frozen Frames presentation. Inquiries and appointments are encouraged.
Following a strong private reception attended by collectors, artists, and museum professionals, the public is invited to experience the Mekas photographs alongside paintings, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works by Mia Katrina Guile, Alexandrea Procida, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Ivan Plusch, Olga Tobreluts, George Papadakis, Christopher B. Wagner, and others. READ MORE
The Summer Salon is led by the paintings of Mia Katrina Guile. Her luminous works transform interiors and landscapes into psychologically resonant spaces where atmosphere, memory, and perception quietly unfold.
MIA KATRINA GUILE
The Summer Salon is led by the paintings of Mia Katrina Guile. Her luminous works transform interiors and landscapes into psychologically resonant spaces where atmosphere, memory, and perception quietly unfold.
Guile’s paintings establish the exhibition’s visual and emotional center while inviting reflection on place, experience, and the subtle ways memory shapes how we see.
Pictured: Mia Katrina Guile, “Here, not here”, 2026, Flashe on paper, 50 × 42 in | 127 × 106.7 cm with frame included, VIEW ON ARTSY