About George Mattei
A New Jersey native, George Mattei is a professional photographer. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was self-employed as an advertising photographer with clientele in the medical, food, and industrial industries photographing annual reports, ads, brochures, catalogs, and packaging. Currently he is employed as a photographer/videographer for Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Hospital in West Haverstraw, NY. Still photography and videos of patients on their journey back to wellness fills his time. In addition to his hospital position, George creates fine art photography. Living at the Jersey shore, his subjects include landscapes and seascapes. He also enjoys producing art of a more conceptual nature with its inspiration in psychology, medicine, time, and religion. George is also an avid gardener and fisherman. His work can be viewed at www.georgemattei.com.
As a resident of the New Jersey Shore, Mattei’s major and frequent subjects of interest are landscapes and seascapes. Much of his photography is produced using the High Dynamic Range technique: no single film or digital camera can reproduce a scene as well as the human eye can, so by taking 3 to 9 exposures from very light to very dark, a wider range of tones is produced, and the details that would be lost to a single exposure are preserved.
Paradoxically, the effect of this attempt to create a greater degree of realism actually creates an almost ethereal, surreal effect, as the still images in front of us look too beautiful and bold to exist in the real world. In this way, Mattei’s photographs seem to transcend the beauty of realistic vision and are elevated to something out of a dream.
New Brunswick Art Salon 2021-Photography: “Shifted Nature”
Phone: 914-980-7858
Artist Personal Website: www.georgemattei.com
Email: george@georgemattei.com
Artists Statement
Currently most of my photography is produced using HDR or the High Dynamic Range technique. No film or digital camera can reproduce a scene as well as your eyes can, so by taking 3 to 9 exposures from very light to very dark, you can capture a wide range of tones which would be lost using 1 exposure. It is a slow process that must be done on a tripod but it forces you to really explore a scene before committing to the photo. I use software engineered to combine all the images captured and produce one image with the best of all the exposures
Exhibitions
2020 Group Show, The Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts & Sciences The Weather Exhibition, Jan. 25 – March 29
2020 Solo Show, Noyes Museum of Art, Shore Medical Center Somers Point, N.J. Jan.28 – March 22
2020 Group Show, Lakefront Gallery Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, N.J. Feb. 2 – March 29
2020 Special Recognition Category, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Seascapes Art Exhibition, “The Storm” June 2020.
2020 Noyes Museum of Art Stockton University Noyes Artists Members Exhibition, Arts Garage Atlantic City, N.J. Oct.9 – January 10, 2021
2019 Photography Invitational Exhibit, Beach Haven Borough Hall, Long Beach Island, Nov. 13 – Jan. 6
2019 Group Show “Sightings,” Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, January – March
2019 Group Show, The Cape May County Coast Guard Community Foundation Art Show
2019 Mad Batter Restaurant Cape May April 5 - May 10.
2019 2 Person Show, Valley Hospital Gallery, June 1 – July 3
2018 Solo Show, Helen Hayes Hospital, Haverstraw, NY, January – March.
2018 Photos from Solo Show, Helen Hayes Hospital on permanent display on the fourth floor.
2018 The Americana Exhibition, Pennsylvania Center for Photography Doylestown, PA. March 16 – April 8
2018 Group Show, Ocean City Arts Center, Ocean City, NJ April 1 – April 28.
2018 Group Show, The First Annual Cape May County Coast Guard Community Foundation Art Show
2018 Mad Batter Restaurant Cape May April 5 - May 10.
2018 Special Recognition Category, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Landscape Art Exhibition, “Holgate Beach” May.
2018 Special Merit Category, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Landscapes Art Exhibition, “Lancaster Cornstalks” June.
2018 Lancaster Autumn Harvest, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Witt Gallery, Autumn Photography Exhibition Oct. 19 – Nov. 10; 3rd place
2018 Transformations Exhibition, Pennsylvania Center for Photography , Doylestown, PA, Nov. 2 – 18