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Matthew Pillsbury

Nate and Me

February 26 to April 20

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Images shown on the site are just a small sample of works available by the artists.

Cell phone on Venice Beach, Sunday, September 24th, 2006 6:58-7:09PM

Nathan Noland, Grand Hyatt Tokyo, CNNJ, Tuesday, February 7th, 2005 5:08-5:23AM

Nate, Matthew and Ella at the Pink Cove, Thursday, May 29th, 2008 9:11-9:22PM

Nathan and Matthew, Lost, Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004 8-9PM

HBO’s Rome, Thursday, October 13th, 2005 12-12:50 AM

Self portrait at computer, Thursday, January 16, 2003 6-7PM

Self portrait contemplating Wapiti, Museum of Natural History, 2004

Sitting on the High Line, 2011

Sudoku above Hollywood, Friday, September 22nd, 2006 8:39-9:06PM

Nate and Me, Desperate Housewives Sunday, October 16th, 2005 9-10pm

Nathan Noland, Mario Kart DS, Wynn Las Vegas, Monday July 31st, 2006 0:34-0:52AM

Press Release

For Immediate Release (2/5/14):
Matthew Pillsbury; Nate and Me
February 26, 2014 – April 20, 2014
The exhibition will open on Wednesday, February 26th with a reception from 6 – 8 p.m.
*Matthew Pillsbury’s work shown courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Matthew Pillsbury had already begun shooting his Screen Lives series –- from which 10 of the 11 images in this exhibition are drawn– when, in 2004, at the age of 30, he met and fell in love with Nathan Noland, and consequently came out as a gay man. The series started out as an examination of the ways that technology was altering the lives of Pillsbury’s closest friends, but when he and Noland got together that examination turned inward and Pillsbury began to make pictures representing his own life and newfound sexuality. At first, as a just-out gay man, he was shy about the work he appeared in, especially images like HBO’s Rome, Thursday, October 13th, 2005 12-12:50 AM and Nate and Me, Lost, Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004 8-9 PM the latter seen here for the first time, that depict the artist and his boyfriend in the midst of a sexual encounter, but gradually he settled in to the role of boyfriend and subject and the work deepened.
Pillsbury has had solo shows around the world, most notably at his primary gallery, Bonni Benrubi, but this is the first show that is truly and transparently about his own life.
All the exhibition photographs were made with an 8×10 view camera using only available light. The exposures ranged from a few minutes to an hour. “While any scientist will tell you that the mere act of observing alters the behavior being looked at, the long length of my exposures allows my subjects to be somewhat less self-conscious than they would be in a more standard portrait situation. With Nate and me, more often than not, I would set up the camera but then we’d start watching television or checking our emails and totally forget the picture was being taken.”
Nate and Matthew have now been romantically apart as long as they were together but Nate continues to work with Matthew and appear in many of his photographs such as Sitting On The High Line, Thursday, November 10th, which appears in this exhibition.
The nature of their relationship is different but the depth and love remain and continue to be evident in many of Pillsbury’s photographs.

Artists

  • Barbara Bosworth
  • Dannielle Bowman
  • Caleb Charland
  • Doug DuBois
  • Rahim Fortune
  • Kris Graves
  • Adam Katseff
  • Peter Kayafas
  • Chuck Kelton
  • Paul McDonough
  • Kristine Potter
  • Christopher Rodriguez
  • Sasha Rudensky
  • Alessandra Sanguinetti
  • Bryan Schutmaat

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