Matthew F Fisher: The Sameness of Every Day

Jan 01, 2020 - Jan 30, 2020

Taymour Grahne is pleased to present The Sameness of Every Day, a solo exhibition by NYC-based artist Matthew F Fisher.
Artworks
Matthew F Fisher
b. 1976, Boston, MA
Lives and works in NYC

Matthew F Fisher received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (1998) and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2000).

Fisher has been the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2016), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York (2015, 2007) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2010), among others.

Recent solo exhibitions include Soft Nature, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2019), After The Ice, Taymour Grahne, London (2019), Strange Light, Over Under Room, Brooklyn, NY (2018), Into the Blue, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA (2018) and Observable Universe, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY (2017).

Fisher’s work is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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- Postmodern theorists of the 1980s pointed out the absence, or rather the unfulfilled presence, at the heart of painting. But painting has always been about yearning. The naked selfevidence of...
- Fashionable theory would have it that paintings as loci of attention are better blurred into ingratiating systems or image streams, but this is itself a reification of the interpretive freedom...
- Text written by Vittorio Colaizzi. Colaizzi has published on Robert Ryman, Thornton Willis, Joan Thorne, and Trudy Benson and is an associate professor of art history at Old Dominion University...
We are suspended in a moment, a sense of floating before and after time. There are no people. There is no date. No marker of when this could be.
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At times, the sky is bathed in a warm, rosy pink, at others, a cool blue, evocative of balmy nights in springtime. We are gazing out to sea, a moment of infinite stillness, where even the ripples of the waves seem to have slowed down.
Paintings
- Matthew F Fisher, The Blythe Giant, 2018
Drawings
- Matthew F Fisher, Convergence Into the Opposite, 2020
Click here for Matthew F Fisher's CV

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