Matthew Mazzotta

Boston, MA

Residency: February-March 2011

Project Description:

During my residency I worked on a number of projects, some physical and others as visualizations for future projects.

I built a very lightweight mobile pyramid out of aluminum and PVC piping in preparation for an upcoming journey in the Fall where I will pull this pyramid on wheels across a landscape for 2-3 months and live inside of it.

Since the time that I was accepted into Sculpture Space, I received two commissions to do public work in Cambridge, MA and Rijeka, Croatia. I was able to work on both of these projects in terms of producing images and visualizations and communicating with my contacts.

Sculpture Space was a great place to work, not many distractions and I was able to really focus on what I wanted to achieve.

About the Artist:

Matthew Mazzotta grew up in Canton, NY, 18 miles from the Canadian border in northern New York state. He is a graduate of School of Art Institute of Chicago and received a Masters of Science in Visual Studies in 2009 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work has been recognized both nationally and internationally, receiving awards from Americans for the Arts: Year in Review-Public Art; Honor Award for Landscape Art-Boston Society of Landscape Architects; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Award, Skowhegan, ME; Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award Johnson, VT; 10th Annual Media Spectacle Honorable Mention/Best Documentary-MIT Comparative Media Studies; People’s Choice Award, Sculpture, – South End Art Hop–Burlington, VT; and Smack Mellon 2010 Hot Picks, New York, NY. Matthew’s work has been featured on many of the major news outlets including CNN, BBC, NPR, ABC, and MSNBC to name a few, and he has received numerous grants from institutions including: the Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Program, Cambridge, MA; Grant for Community Building, Interactive Art Projects-Black Rocks Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA; and Berwick Research Institute in Boston. Matthew has also been an invited speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Continuum Green Design Symposium, Lesley University, and the De Lewei Theater, Drachten, Netherlands.