The Good Thief

2016

"In his paintings, Matthew Schofield embraces the experimentation of the amateur photographer as well as the photograph as a tactile object. Schofield's first solo exhibition at Nicholas Metivier Gallery is based on an unrelated family's archive of photographs that was gifted to him. Schofield accurately renders every detail of the photographs - their edges, descriptive writing, tears and fading - in paint, appropriating these images and constructing a new narrative for the viewer." Sarah Massie and Rita Stuart

4 weeks Nov 1964
8 x 8 inches
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2016

17
5 x 5 inches
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Al Hood and Irving glass
5 x 5 inches
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A line of men
5 x 5 inches
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Aug 55
10 x 8 inches
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Black dog in a doorway
6 x 4 inches
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Charles, Grand bend, 1948
5 x 5 inches
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Clement Florida, 1926
8 x 8 inches
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C.L. Strahm, 1932
5 x 7 inches
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Cathy McGonigle, Toronto, 1949
5 x 6 inches
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Daisy Nisbet, Galt, 1948
5 x 5 inches
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Diane Slimman Marie Straking, Sept 84
8 x 10 inches
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Field day,100 yard dash
5 x 5 inches
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Galt, 1949
8 x 10 inches
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Girl and man on sidewalk
5 x 7 inches
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Girl under tree
5 x 7 inches
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Good catch 8 x 10 inches Oil on Mylar on wood 2016

High jinx
10 x 8 inches
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Lee family, Greenbank
6 x 6 inches
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Man and child
5 x 5 inches
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Man in an oversized suit
5 x 5 inches
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Margo Essex, Toronto, 1946
5 x 7 inches
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Men in a classroom
10 x 8 inches
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Middlemiss 1955
10 x 8 inches
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Mother and Dad, 1954
6 x 6 inches
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Mother + Dad, 1954
6 x 6 inches
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Parade
5 x 7 inches
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Photobook page
9 x 12 inches
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Portrait of a man
8 x 10 inches
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Richard Semour at 4 weeks
6 x 6 inches
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Ross Ferguson, Terry Hogan, Don Newman
5 x 7 inches
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School yard
5 x 5 inches
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Three gents
5 x 7 inches
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Wedding overexposed
8 x 10 inches
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Woman in a doorway
5 x 5 inches
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Woman in rapids
8 x 10 inches
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Woman on a bench
4 x 6 inches
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Women waiting
5 x 7 inches
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Young girl in a field
5 x 5 inches
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2016