Matthew Rolston’s “Vent Haven Portraits” inspires essay in esteemed digital magazine The Eye of Photography

12/13/2016 – 3:13 pm

L’Oeil de la Photographie, or The Eye of Photography—the highly respected online photography magazine founded by Jean-Jacques Naudet, a onetime editor in chief of French PHOTO magazine and the editor at large at American Photo—recently published a thought-provoking essay on Matthew Rolston‘s Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits. The fine-art portrait series and monograph, which […]

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An exclusive look inside the opening reception for Matthew Rolston’s “Talking Heads” exhibition at Berlin’s Camera Work Contemporary Gallery

05/13/2016 – 2:17 pm

  Photographer Matthew Rolston recently made his European fine-art debut with the solo show “Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits” at Berlin’s Camera Work Contemporary Gallery, and we’re excited to share this exclusive look at the event. The exhibition opened on Friday, April 22, with a private preview, immediately followed by a general opening, and was […]

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Matthew Rolston makes his fine-art debut in Europe with “Talking Heads,” opening Friday, April 22, at Berlin’s esteemed Camera Work Contemporary Gallery

04/20/2016 – 1:40 pm

Having garnered considerable critical praise in the United States, Matthew Rolston’s fine-art series “Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits” is set to debut this week at the Camera Work Contemporary Gallery in Berlin’s Mitte gallery district. The show, which opens Friday, marks Rolston’s first-ever European exhibition and adds him to the pantheon of fellow Camera […]

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Matthew Rolston’s acclaimed “Talking Heads” series to appear at Paris Photo Los Angeles

04/28/2015 – 8:29 am

Select images from “Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits,” the celebrated fine-art series by photographer and director Matthew Rolston, will be showcased at this year’s Paris Photo Los Angeles. Highly anticipated among collectors, Paris Photo Los Angeles is the U.S. edition of the world’s preeminent art fair for works created in the photographic medium. On […]

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Mummy dearest: The Wall Street Journal’s exclusive first look at Matthew Rolston’s startling new fine-art series, “Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits”

10/30/2014 – 1:51 pm

. Noted celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston, fresh off the success of “Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits,” his book and exhibition featuring monumentally scaled portraits of vintage ventriloquist dummies, recently completed his latest fine-art project—and this new series is just as striking and unexpected. Rolston’s “Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits” comprises portraits of mummies from the […]

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Matthew Rolston’s “Talking Heads” exhibition makes some noise in Los Angeles

07/02/2014 – 4:10 pm

The opening reception early last month for the exhibition “Matthew Rolston: Talking Heads” was well received, drawing a crowd of collectors and celebrities (including Diane Keaton) alike. The show, at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art in Los Angeles, was also well received by the press. . . “The photographer’s striking, monumentally scaled portraits of ventriloquist dummies […]

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Los Angeles art dealer Diane Rosenstein to host an exhibition of Matthew Rolston’s “Talking Heads” portraits in June

05/15/2014 – 4:07 pm

We’re thrilled to announce that selected images from Matthew Rolston’s Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits monograph—which has been featured by CNN.com, CBS News, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Huffington Post, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among many others—will be on view at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art in Los Angeles this summer. The show […]

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Wired interviews Matthew Rolston about his portraits of ventriloquist dummies

03/18/2014 – 12:40 pm

More than a year after being published by Pointed Leaf Press, Matthew Rolston‘s coffee table book Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits continues to beguile the press. Most recently, Wired interviewed Matthew about the project, which features his large-scale color portraits of vintage ventriloquist dummies that reside at the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, […]

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Creative luminaries voice their support of Matthew Rolston’s “Talking Heads” in NYC

06/13/2013 – 4:40 pm

. Renowned New York–based interior designer Richard Mishaan is used to boldfaced names visiting his chic University Place retail emporium, Homer. But last Wednesday evening, there was an unusually high concentration of luminaries on hand as Mishaan hosted a private party in honor of Matthew Rolston and his new book, Talking Heads: The Vent Haven […]

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Party photos: Book-launch soiree hosted by Diane Keaton draws a full house for Matthew Rolston’s “Talking Heads”

05/15/2013 – 8:19 am

. Luminaries of all stripes—from the worlds of entertainment, fine-art, and design to stars of the social register—turned out en masse in Los Angeles last Friday to celebrate Matthew Rolston’s new book, Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits. The party was hosted by actress, art collector, and author Diane Keaton, who had received Talking Heads […]

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