MATNEY Gallery

Lee Matney Curator

Matney Gallery is a Curator-driven art space in Williamsburg, Virginia, specializing in Southern art, international contemporary art and photography, and Virginia colleges. John Lee Matney founded the gallery to develop and promote innovative art exhibitions with national and international artists. With a focus on painting, photography, installation, video, sculpture, and performance art, the Linda Matney Gallery provides a unique opportunity for patrons to view some of the most significant pieces being created today.

Matney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in honor of Linda Matney, who lost her battle with cancer in 2001. The gallery specializes in curating services for museum exhibitions and collections, notably Southern figurative art and photography. We are exclusive agents in Virginia of the deeper catalogs of select contemporary artists, which we showcase in special previews of new and newly available work at our exhibitions. Our mission is to promote research-based contemporary art and support artists while providing quality art-collecting experiences for our patrons.

 Curating services for museum exhibitions, corporate exhibits, staging projects, and private collections.  Exclusive agents in Virginia of the deeper catalogs of numerous contemporary artists, including special previews of new and newly available works.  Art brokers for other works in various genres, including Virginia interests, mid 20th century Modern, and Barclay Sheaks.

Consultations are available at your location

5435 Richmond Rd * Williamsburg, VA * Behind Carolina Furniture and near the Premium Outlets * www.lindamatneygallery.com

  Appointment recommended. Call (757) 675-6627
 

LEE MATNEY

Lee Matney, a native of Richmond VA, has over 25 years of experience in the art world in Virginia, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere. His gallery specializes in developing thematic group shows and collaborative art projects with international and American artists. The gallery also offers consulting for investment art, With a focus on quality and service, Linda Matney Gallery provides an excellent resource for contemporary art lovers everywhere. Specialities Southern art, Art Rosenbaum, Southern photography, Virginia colleges, Texas art.

Matney’s experience with collaborative artist exhibits spans the United States, drawing nationwide public and media attention.  Standout projects include 2022’s Three Excellences of Culture, Art Rosenbaum and Friends, Pearl Fincher Museum, Spring Texas, 2018's Transposition: Asian Cultures with Baylee Wang/Landmark Arts and Cultural Exchange Company and the Peninsula Fine Art Center which includes a upcoming exhibition in Beijing in 2019.  2017's Locus Exhibition at the Mason Scharfenstein Museum of Art featured Virginia, Georgia and Chicago artists while 2017's Ancient Traditions/Modern Lives  brought the Amazon to Virginia with a  exhibition of works by natives of Peru and anthropologists along with works by contemporary American painters and photographers. 2017's Surface and Celebration of Female Artists were a testament to Matney's unwavering commitment to seek out strong female voices in the arts.   2013's Art House on City Square and Temporal Distortions co-curated with Tyrus Lytton which brought 26 Southern artists to Williamsburg's Stryker Building and a concurrent exhibit at Linda Matney Gallery. Matney facilitated X-Radiance with curator Lita Tirak which was named in the top 5 art exhibitions for 2013 by Mark St. John Erickson of the Newport News Daily Press.  The 2013 appearance of exhibiting artist Hye Yeon Nam included a lecture at William and Mary's Andrews Auditorium. Exhibitions by William and Mary's Elizabeth Mead including her one person exhibit in 2013 and Jo Volley's 2014 New Works for the New World mark a continuation of Matney's outreach to the talent from regional universities. Matney has also curated or facilitated exhibitions with artists associated with Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Virginia, Christopher Newport University, University of Georgia and Virginia Commonwealth University. Other projects have been affiliated with local government such as the Stryker Building exhibition. Matney staged the first exhibit ever held in the Williamsburg's Municipal Building in 2014, Teddy Johnson's Lost Horseshoes.