I can’t thank you all enough for takign the time to come out to my Solo Exhibit and Debut. According to the traffic counters we had over 300 people attend. I sincerely hope that you all enjoyed the event and my artwork.

We got loads of pre-event press, and I have to send my appreciation out to all those who posted, listed and blogged my show. Here are a few screen shots!

I still have a few of the certified limited edition prints available for $150 each. Please email me if you’re interested.

Thanks again all!

So my new limited edition solo show postcards have arrived! Send me your address and i’ll happily mail you out one!

For Immediate Release

Art exhibition “Abstract Experiences”

Thursday, July 8th

The Samsung Experience at the

Time Warner Center

3^rd Floor

10 Columbus Circle

New York, NY 10019-1158

Matt Nahoum’s debut has been a long time coming. Born and raised in the Bronx, the Rabbit, as he is known, is the quintessential New York artist: inspired by everything around him, yet with a slightly twisted interpretation; his city roots lend him a context afforded only to “actual” New Yorkers.

The Rabbit is by no means new to art- indeed, he spent his entire youth, all the way through high school, painting and drawing- but after moving upstate to attend college, and then to San Diego to pursue a job opportunity, he “just stopped painting,” as he puts it. “There was a lack of inspiration, and I just couldn’t find my voice.”

Four years after moving back to his hometown, though, the Rabbit has found his voice and he is ready to speak. “When I left New York I was somewhat disillusioned with the city and it was kind of like we broke up,” he says. “But art heals and when I came back, the new burst of creativity I had almost felt like therapy, and that allowed me to come to terms with who I really am-both as a person and an artist.”

Held at the Time Warner Center’s Samsung Experience,  “Abstract Experiences” is both retrospective and reawakening. He has revisited old works and created new ones, tapping in to his newfound maturity as an artist. The exhibition will be held Thursday, July 8^th from 6pm-8pm.

About the Rabbit

Eager to create the world through his eyes, Matt Rabbit has been expressing his most inner thoughts and expressions since he was a child. Matt Nahoum is textural abstract artist, living in Brooklyn New York. His work comes from chaotic places in his mind that come to life as he puts feeling to canvas. Art heals, and Matt uses creativity as therapy. It keeps him here. Keeps him from running. Run rabbit, run.

About the show

“Abstract Experiences” marks the debut of emerging abstract artist Matt Nahoum, and brings to life his unique vision and expression. The show will feature some of his most visionary works as well as some of Samsung’s cutting edge visual display technology.

About the Samsung Experience

The Samsung Experience is an interactive brand emporium that provides a creative experience through Samsung’s vision of digital convergence. Captivate both your senses and imagination. Explore the art of the possible within the new digital culture. Touch, hear, and engage the latest technology to create your own digital lifestyle and discover a fusion of new ideas in art, entertainment, and design. www.samsungexperience.com

Media Contact

Venue – Sarah Horn; sarahh@cheilusa.com

Artist – matt@mattsrabit.com

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Hello friends, so this is a long time coming and a long awaited update! My very first solo exhibition is Thursday, July 8th! I’ll be posting the flier and the press release as well as updating the gallery and my purchase section. thanks for the support!

So my paintings are currently in the Brooklyn Museum’s photo studio being photographed by the super sweet Sarah DeSantis aka @catchunexttues . I stil have a few pieces at the 112 Greene Street Studio in Soho that I need to pick up. As soon as Sarah is done with it, my piece entitled “Apocalypse” will be sent to Michigan to be shown at the home of Craig Owens former singer of the band Chiodos. I’m so honered that he is interested in my work and will be showing my piece at his house.

I’ve got a few smaller pieces in the works at my place, but need to sell something so I can afford some new paints and canvas. So please buy something!

Will be putting some hand made cellphone charger/holdes on Etsey soon. Will be updating my photo gallery once Sarah is done with the pics, then posting the pieces on Etsey as well.

As always, thanks for your love and support.

Testing my wordpress BlackBerry app. Very excited that it’s working!

I wanted to take a minute to sum up the year that was 2009 and look ahead to 2010. But before I do that, I think some thanks are in order…

I want to take the time to thank my friends.. new and old, internet and real life. My friends who put up with my ups and downs, and allow me to be me. Friends who love me for who I am and support my man hair-brained schemes. My friends who took me in out of the cold and fed me, clothed me and helped keep a roof over my head. I know that I’m not necessarily the easiest person to be friends with… but that makes it all the more special that I have you in my life. It’s your strength and conviction that has kept me alive and positive. The man is the sum of the individual parts, and I sincerely believe that you all help make me who I am.

2009 was the most challenging year of my life. It came in filled with unsure hesitation, and “what does it mean” questions. I spent New Years eve with an incredible woman who’s love carried me the whole year and a half we were together. Her positivity was simply addictive and it was my good fortune to have had her in my life. I also spent New Years eve surrounded by my friends and their wives and kids. But I think it was this very “traditional” and family filled entry into 2009 that got my anxiety going. It wasn’t apparent at first, but snuck up on me. The idea of growing old and settling down. I wanted it all, but was so uneasy about it. I guess it was all this anxiety and unsettling unsure feeling that was the ultimate downfall of our relationship. Loosing it and her was a loss like none I had felt.

Not long after the collapse of my relationship i lost my job. It was a job I was no longer happy with, but in this crazy economy, loosing your income was a dangerous and frightening challenge to deal with. The balance of the year was filled with bike riding, and penny pinching. Dates that didn’t work out, missed connections and failed business ventures. I began to drink myself into a hole and created self fulfilling prophecies of destruction and failure.

The holidays snuck up on me with no end to the financial ruin in sight. I found myself surround by toxic people and became as unhappy with myself as I had ever been. Sad, lonely and heartbroken I reached out to my friends who supported me and helped me see that positive things were around the corner.

The rules of attraction say that positivity attracts positivity and negativity attracts negativity. I sincerely believe that to be true. Maybe it took my being so lost and turning to my positive friends to begin to see, feel and attract positive fortune.But the last few days of 2009 began to show snippets of the amazing and happy things that were to come for me. I got a few calls about potential work opportunities, one of my favorite singers contacted me about buying one of my artwork pieces, I met this super special person who’s had me smiling for weeks and I got to count down the new year surrounded by friends in Sunny San Diego, relaxing in warm sun and friends love.

I believe that my world has changed as has my future and my luck.. and my fate for that matter. I don’t fool myself by thinking the rest of my life will be all peaches and cream.. but for now I’m feeling creative, positive and excited about my future. I start grad school in the summer and need to go into it with the best attitude possible, and if my feelings continue, and I’m able to attract these positive people and experiences, then grad school will be a fantastic and challenging experience. One I look forward to with endless enthusiasm.

So to sum up, i say thank you to you all.. the people who came into my life, and even thank you to those of you who were lost from my life. I’m better for having had the ups and downs with so many of you. I cherish the good and bad, the happy and sad and each of you who shared life with me. Thank you and i wish you all the happiness and success in the world.

thank you.

Started a DeviantArt account, thinking of a myspace and facebook account all for my artwork… but do i need it??

Sometimes… the right thing, is the hardest thing. It’s always difficult to see “the long run” even when you know the cliche is right.