Exhibition 2003
Painted set for Hollywood play “F**king Wasps”
Postcard/invitation · 2003-10-03 to 2003-11-08
f**king wasps by steve morgan haskell
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Photographed by Matt Sesow from his press packets, October 18, 2026; text transcribed from the photos by Claude.
[Handwritten:] 2003 Hollywood play featuring paintings by Matt Sesow.
[Card front:]
f king wasps
why did america's first eagle scout want to get into everybody's pants?
a story of alfred charles kinsey
note
[Card back:]
f**king wasps
by steve morgan haskell
produced by theatre of note
with celia anne brown, jennifer ann evans, joe foster, phinneas kiyomura, scott mckinley, spencer robinson, terry tocantins, kirsten vangsness, greg wall, dan wingard
previews october 1 & 2
opens october 3, 2003
gala opening october 4 - $20
thursday, friday & saturday at 8pm
closes november 8, 2003
tickets $15
theatre of note - 1517 cahuenga blvd., hlywd 90029
reserve: 323.856.8611
$2 off 1 ticket w/ this postcard
www.theatreofnote.com
part of the 2003 Edge of the World Festival
music performed by david bickford
art by matt sesow
also at note: 9 playwrights, 9 directors, 21 actors, 5 minutes... that's why we can't have nice things - nine 5 minute plays based on that theme, fridays and saturdays, late night
NOTEworthy READING SERIES: The Putnam Experiment by Stephen McFeely, Nov. 3, 4 & 5 @ 7:30 pm
PLAY7 passes accepted
afkiff design
[Partly visible behind the card: '...10/5/2003 (Deborah Klugman)']
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From the press archive
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
- Matt Sesow press packet (photographed by Matt, 2026-10-18)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Painted set for Hollywood play ‘F**king Wasps’.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2003. history.sesow.com/e/2003-painted-set-hollywood-play-f.html. Accessed [date].
Were you there? Do you have a photo, a clipping or a memory of this? Please write to sesow@sesow.com or use Ask Matt a question, and it will be added here.
Also in 2003
- Exhibition Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
- Exhibition Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
- Milestone Launches “31 Days in July” — annual project creating one large painting per day in response to morning news
- Press Washington City Paper on “31 Days in July” (2003)
- Press “…31 days in july…” — Get Underground feature (2003)
- Media The Larz from Mars Show — Matt Sesow, July 2003
- Exhibition “Art Against War,” Grand Atrium, Majlis Cultural Center, Mumbai, India
- Exhibition “Political Bodies,” Seattle, WA
- Exhibition Residency as visiting artist, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
- Exhibition B-Side group show — Adams Morgan, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Sesow showing in Lincoln — University Place Art Gallery
- Exhibition Nisk-Art Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition Guest Artist — Kentuck Festival
- Award First Place — 2003 Adams Morgan Juried Arts Festival, Washington, DC
- Award Juror’s Choice Award — Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Press Las Vegas Mercury review compares work to George Grosz, Francis Bacon, and Edvard Munch
- Press David Brickman, “This Is Not the Academy”
- Press Interview with “The Palette”
- Press Article in “Artesian” Magazine
- Press Compass Magazine — cover and feature article; published by Leonard Cheshire, UK
- Press Coagula Magazine — Los Angeles
- Media Kudzu Wish CD cover — Reverse Hurricane, NC band
- Exhibition The Ottobar, Baltimore, MD — March, over 20 works
- Exhibition Aroma, Cleveland Park, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “A Really Big Show,” Results Gallery with WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “The Art of Conflict,” national juried exhibition, 57 N Fine Art, 1701 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “POV,” ARTOCONECTO national juried exhibition, 1701 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition OCCOA at CDW Gallery, 30th and M Street, Georgetown, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Kalorama Emerging Artists Fair, 1711 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “Love and Eroticism,” juried exhibition, Khoja Gallery, Arlington, VA
- Exhibition Capital Region Art Center, Albany, NY
- Exhibition Guest Artist — 10th annual Folk Fest 2003, North Atlanta Trade Center, Atlanta, GA
- Exhibition “March Madness” shown in “Art Against War: An Exhibition of Posters and Multimedia”
- Media Lecture — Calvert Elementary School assembly, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Media Lecture — Niskayuna High School assembly, Niskayuna, NY
- Exhibition Stage backdrops — “F**king Wasps,” Theatre of NOTE, Hollywood, CA
- Press The Warrior — Niskayuna High School newspaper
- Press OutsiderArt.info — online exhibition “Matt Sesow...WAR,” about two dozen anti-war paintings from December 2002
- Media Exit Clov CD cover — painting on the cover of “Starfish,” the 2003 EP by DC band Exit Clov
