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Resume

Mayellen Matson is a filmmaker, videographer, and fine artist from Vermont. She recently completed a double major in Film & Media Studies and Studio Art as an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College. She previously studied studio art at Concordia University in Montreal and cinematography at Maine Media Workshops & College.

EDUCATION:

Smith College – Northampton, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Arts, Film & Media Studies, Studio Art (2022)
Maine Media Workshops & College – Rockport, Maine
8-Week Cinematography Intensive (2017)
Community College of Vermont – Winooski, Vermont
Associate of Arts, Liberal Studies (2015) 

SELECTED AWARDS:

CATV & White River Indie Films
48-Hour Film Slam (2018)
• 2nd Place, Adult
48-Hour Film Slam (2017)
• 1st Place, Adult
• WRIF Award

CATV & The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth
Halloween-O-Thon (2016)
• 3rd Place, Adult
Halloween-O-Thon (2015)
• Audience Choice Award
Halloween-O-Thon (2014)
• 3rd Place, Adult

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Mud, Artistree Gallery, Woodstock VT
2013 20-30 2D-3D, Chandler Gallery, Randolph VT
2012 Local Color, Artistree Gallery, Woodstock VT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 – The Lovin’ Cup Cafe, Johnson VT

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2012 Vermont Artists Week, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

"Of particular note were three paintings by Strafford artist Mayellen Matson. Pigs is Equal is a grisly trainwreck, in a good way; I couldn’t look away. A man holding a prize shoat grins broadly. The flawed grammar of the title mocks the bespectacled man, even as it recalls Orwell’s Animal Farm, but he seems blissfully jubilant. The runny blood-red background makes clear that this loving relationship isn’t going to end well.

Matson’s other two paintings in the show are more ambiguous still. In Creep, a young woman stares out of the frame. She appears to be standing in water, but that’s not entirely clear. She certainly looks creepy, the way she appears to be moving toward the viewer with inscrutable intent. But we’re looking at her, too. Who’s the creep now?

And in I Left Her Standing There, Matson strands a nude female torso with the head of a buck — a seven-pointer, by my count — in a winter landscape. Who the “I” of the title might be isn’t clear. Is it the artist or is it the deer, which gazes malevolently back at the viewer. My money is on Matson, who seems to practice a cool detachment toward her subjects. The painting carries an erotic charge that’s straight out of mythology or fairy tale territory, more stories that often don’t end well.”

– Alex Hanson, Valley News Staff Writer, Art Notes: Young Artists Show Spooky and Surreal Works in Randolph

Published Thursday, January 31, 2013