Resume
Paul Matte
Photographer, artist, and teacher of photography, computer arts, and traditional visual arts.
Brockville, Ontario, Canada
My artwork follows two different paths. The first, traditional photography, investigates the beauty of the 1,000 Islands, the juxtapositions within street photography, and the surreal aspects of life in general. The second and most recent developments are my multi-media, photo-based, wall sculptures. Perhaps because of my experimental fine arts background, I have been growing more and more dissatisfied with the flatness of photography. Having moved into digital photography and Photoshop editing, the concept of layers and space became more and more dominant in my image making. It was in late winter of 2015 that building three-dimensional wooden layers came to fruition.
With the help of juxtapositions, I try to make the ordinary into something intriguing. I believe my compositions are influenced by my interest with the snapshot aesthetic, street photographer Gary Winogrand, surrealist painter Rene Magritte, Canadian photographer Lynne Cohen, and Canadian painter Mimi Matte. The outcome of this blend, for much of my work, brings the snapshot aesthetic into the surreal - where juxtapositions meet within a tidy and sterile stage-like surrounding.
With the help of juxtapositions, I try to make the ordinary into something intriguing. I believe my compositions are influenced by my interest with the snapshot aesthetic, street photographer Gary Winogrand, surrealist painter Rene Magritte, Canadian photographer Lynne Cohen, and Canadian painter Mimi Matte. The outcome of this blend, for much of my work, brings the snapshot aesthetic into the surreal - where juxtapositions meet within a tidy and sterile stage-like surrounding.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Catholic District School Board Of Eastern Ontario
Retired teacher at St. Mary C.H.S.
Within the thirty one years of teaching, I have taught photography, computer arts, traditional visual arts, and yearbook production with some French As A Second Language courses mixed in.
September 1985 - August 2016 Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION
University Of Ottawa
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Photography
September 1980 - May 1984 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
University Of Ottawa
Bachelor of Education, Intermediate / Senior Visual Arts
September 1984 - April 1985 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
LANGUAGES
English (Native)
French (Fluent)
SKILLS
Adobe Photoshop And Illustrator, Anecdotal Assessment, B&W Photography, Course Planning, Darkroom Techiques, Differentiated Instruction, Digital Photography, Drawing, Drawing, Formative Assessment, Inclusion, Multi-media Construction, Non-Silver Photography,Organizationl Skills, Painting, Planning, Presentations, Printmaking, Program Planning, Program Writing, Rubrics, Running Extra-curricular Activities, Summative Assessment, Teaching, Time Management, Traditional Colour Photography, Traditional Photography, Use Of Achievement Chart
ACHIEVEMENTS
-Presently photographing the 1,000 Islands.
-Presently working on multi-media, photo-based, sculptures.
-Presently completing a photo reference book under the guidance of a publisher.
-Presently working on multi-media, photo-based, sculptures.
-Presently completing a photo reference book under the guidance of a publisher.
-2016 Honourable mention for Travel/Tourism (Brockville Tall Ships) in 2016 Annual International Photography Awards (IPA)
-2016 Honourable mention in the International Photography Awards' Family of Man competition. Am included in a worldwide traveling exhibition and published in a special-edition book.
-2016 Brockville Public Library acquired an image for permanent exhibition.
-2015 Group show called Touched By Fire at the Glass Factory in Toronto.
-2014 International Digital group show called One Life 2013.
-2013 International group show with the Art of Photography Show in San Diego, California. 100 images were displayed out of over 13,000 entries.
-2012 Group show "An Open Call: Your Greatest Hits" at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont.
-2012 Group show "Windows and Mirrors" at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont.
-2011 Group show "Seeing Myself, Seeing Others: The Art of the Portrait" at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont.
-2011 Group show "One Cubed" at the Roho Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
-2010 Solo exhibition "Unpeopled Spaces" at the Samuel J. Zacks Gallery at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
-2010 Two awards with a special mention in the introduction in Color magazine for the Single Image contest; A silver in Architecture/Interior, and a bronze in Digital Conceptualization.
-2009 Group exhibition with the Thousand Islands Arts Association.
-2008 Solo exhibition at the French Café, in Manotick (Ottawa), Ontario.
-2008 Photo Life magazine published full page image.
-2007 Photoshop Creative magazine published three photographs.
-2007 Solo exhibition at the Brockville Arts Center in Brockville, Ontario.
-2016 Honourable mention in the International Photography Awards' Family of Man competition. Am included in a worldwide traveling exhibition and published in a special-edition book.
-2016 Brockville Public Library acquired an image for permanent exhibition.
-2015 Group show called Touched By Fire at the Glass Factory in Toronto.
-2014 International Digital group show called One Life 2013.
-2013 International group show with the Art of Photography Show in San Diego, California. 100 images were displayed out of over 13,000 entries.
-2012 Group show "An Open Call: Your Greatest Hits" at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont.
-2012 Group show "Windows and Mirrors" at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont.
-2011 Group show "Seeing Myself, Seeing Others: The Art of the Portrait" at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont.
-2011 Group show "One Cubed" at the Roho Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
-2010 Solo exhibition "Unpeopled Spaces" at the Samuel J. Zacks Gallery at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
-2010 Two awards with a special mention in the introduction in Color magazine for the Single Image contest; A silver in Architecture/Interior, and a bronze in Digital Conceptualization.
-2009 Group exhibition with the Thousand Islands Arts Association.
-2008 Solo exhibition at the French Café, in Manotick (Ottawa), Ontario.
-2008 Photo Life magazine published full page image.
-2007 Photoshop Creative magazine published three photographs.
-2007 Solo exhibition at the Brockville Arts Center in Brockville, Ontario.