Irene Matteucci

Overlooked

I started this project as a way to discover my new neighborhood. I looked for things that make the area unique, an urban landscape discovering its artistic side, making an effort to show that it is growing. As I
progressed, however, it became less about the neighborhood and more about the moment. The images
became less descriptive and more abstract, using angles, light, shadow, depth, color, and reflections to
show the mystery in unexpected places.

There is a sense of not knowing in these images. But maybe I don’t need to know because what I’m
seeing is complete within itself. Photography shows the world in a way that can’t be seen with the naked
eye, frozen in time and space. Light changes from one second to the next. One fleeting moment exists
because I captured it, I noticed. My photographs hint at a larger story.

As I’m moving about my world, wherever I happen to be, I am drawn to the interesting corner, the
intriguing shape, how light illuminates, and how reflection redraws. I look from the inside out and the
outside in. I welcome the discovery of the overlooked, giving it a voice and the chance to be seen by a
new audience.

Artist Bio

Irene Matteucci was born in Everett, Massachusetts over 60 years ago and has been an artist all her life. She studied painting, art history, and photography at the Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt) and studied editorial and color photography at the New England School of Photography (NESOP). Though she dreamed about a life as a working photographer, she went on to study Graphic Design at MassArt. Around 2014, Irene returned to the medium of photography as a way to get back to herself, this time as an art form rather than a commercial venture. She went back to school, delving further into the digital realm and relearning how to print. The artistic sense, the love of color and composition, were still there. During this period, Irene showed work at the 7 Bridges gallery in Maynard, MA, winning the juror’s award, and at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, VT.

Irene’s photographs include many graphic design elements in nature but especially in urban areas. She explores the nooks and crannies of an area, to see how ordinary things can be seen in a different light. She uses angles, light, shadow, depth and reflections to show mystery in unexpected places.