Coco Hunday

On the occasion of the closing reception for Strigiforms, Coco Hunday and Walter Matthews have collaborated on a permanent Camera Obscura aperture to the garage door of Gallery 1. During daytime hours, viewers will be able to experience a ghost image of the outside world, layered onto and around, the works situated in Gallery 1. As the outside comes in–upside down and backward–familiar subjects both inside and out become further estranged and ecstatic. This gesture is particularly poignant as Walters subjects emerge from everyday views of his yard in Tampa, only a couple miles away from the gallery.

Thanks Tom Wi******er for the review of STRIGIFORMS, a solo exhibition by Walter Matthews …the review is also on the gallery website, congratulations to all!

💎Welcome to 2025, and please join us!💎
Closing Reception
STRIGIFORMS
💥a solo exhibition by Walter Matthews

Coco Hunday
Saturday January 11th, 12-2pm
304 w Crest Ave, Tampa, FL 33603

Strigiforms marks Matthew’s second solo exhibition with Coco Hunday.

Initially drawn from the immediate surroundings of his Tampa home, Walter’s paintings drift into an epic of magical realism. Subjects seem to awaken with sentience, embarking on hallucinatory journeys that intertwine hallucinatory pleasure and conspiracy. Through this transformation, the ordinary dissolves into a realm where desire and paranoia bleed freely.

We are thrilled to publish an interview with Walter by Tom Wi******er (Arts Writer, Educator, and Director of artcritter.com) on the day of our closing reception, along with a reflection on the exhibition.

*For a price list or any other questions, please send a DM, cheers!

Gallery 2 documentation💥
💎STRIGIFORMS💎 marks Matthew’s second solo exhibition with Coco Hunday.  Working from immediate surroundings outside his home, the paintings drift into an epic of magical realism conjuring subjects with emerging sentience and anticipating hallucinatory voyages of pleasure and conspiracy.

More of Walter’s work can be found on instagram . We are thrilled to publish an interview with Walter by Tom Wi******er (director of artcritter.com) in January 2025. Stay tuned to our instagram for more details and a closing date TBA. Viewings are by appointment only, please dm for an appointment and prices✨✨

Gallery 1 documentation💕
Gallery 2 coming soon 💥
💎STRIGIFORMS💎 marks Matthew’s second solo exhibition with Coco Hunday.  Working from immediate surroundings outside his home, the paintings drift into an epic of magical realism conjuring subjects with emerging sentience and anticipating hallucinatory voyages of pleasure and conspiracy.

More of Walter’s work can be found on instagram . We are thrilled to publish an interview with Walter by Tom Wi******er (director of artcritter.com) in January 2025. Stay tuned to our instagram for more details and a closing date TBA. Viewings are by appointment only, please dm for an appointment and prices✨✨

“Front Gate” oil on canvas, 21x25”
💥Thanks to everyone who came out for solo exhibition Strigiforms at . For now, more of Walter’s work can be found on instagram . We are thrilled to publish an interview with Walter by Tom Wi******er (director of artcritter.com) in January 2025. Stay tuned to our for more details on the interview, installation images in the coming weeks, and a closing date TBA. DM to view by appt or for prices💥

A cute moment from our exhibition reception, thanks to everyone who came out for solo exhibition Strigiforms at . For now, more of Walter’s work can be found on instagram . We are thrilled to publish an interview with Walter by Tom Wi******er (director of artcritter.com) in January 2025. Stay tuned to our for more details on the interview, installation images in the coming weeks, and a closing date TBA. DM to view by appt or for prices✨

Walter Matthews
STRIGIFORMS
opens Saturday Nov 23rd, 2024 8-10pm
304 w Crest Ave,
Tampa FL 33603

Now quick linked on our link tree:

the OPEN_OPEN_CALL EXHIBITION PROPOSAL ARCHIVE (200+) is LIVE on our site now! ⭐️ have a look at the many amazing proposals 💫 thank you to all the artists for their hard work and vision ♥️

_EXHIBITION PROPOSAL ARCHIVE (200+ applications)

All the exhibition proposals received for our 2021 open call, titled OPEN_OPEN_CALL, linked in perpetuity, with the permission of the artists:

As stated in our original open call, we hope the published archive of exhibition proposals will become a repository for use by artists, educators, curators, students, and researchers…many thanks to all of the artists for their collaboration on this project!

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Original open call text below:
Coco Hunday invites artists to send a PDF proposal for a Coco Hunday Solo exhibition in either Gallery 1, Gallery 2, or both spaces simultaneously.
For the exhibition PDF proposal itself, there are no requirements, we invite artists to respond in a variety of ways that fit the spirit of their work, traditional, poetic, or subversive.  All PDF proposals will be permanently archived on cocohunday.com for public viewing–we hope the range of submissions will become a repository for use by artists, curators, students, and researchers.
The selected artist(s) will be interviewed by an active curator, theorist, or artist picked collaboratively with the exhibiting artist to be permanently published on cocohunday.com.  This interview could take the form of a video, an IM chat, a transcript, zoom dialogue, or a number of other more experimental forms.
The deadline for submissions is March 15th, 2021 (extended to April 5th, 2021).  The selected exhibition (s) will take place during August – September 2021.

Visitors💕