it is raining gently with light

Canadian composer and photographer Michael Matthews is featured in the exhibition Partituren/Time Stands Still: Photographs by Michael Matthews & Michael Kruscha at the Irving Arts Center, March 5 – June 25, 2022. Matthews creates fully abstract, microcosmic images based on found textures and colors. In the series titled Partituren (the German term for musical parts or scores), Matthews finds kinship in the concept and nature of the musical score to the ideas and images in his visual art. Musical scores function as both graphic and symbolic representations of musical ideas. For Matthews, both art forms are inextricably linked, and his photographic compositions emerge, like his musical ones, from the development of lines, shapes, densities, and colors. Matthews holds a Ph.D. in composition and conducting from North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas), where he studied with Larry Austin and is recently retired from a long career as Professor of composition at the University of Manitoba. In November 2021 his new work, it is raining gently with light premiered in Winnipeg as part of the GroundSwell series. The musicians are Madeline Hildebrand, Kerry DuWors, and Cathy Wood.