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Matthew F Fisher: The Sameness of Every Day

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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.

    Taymour Grahne is pleased to present The Sameness of Every Day, a solo exhibition by NYC-based artist Matthew F Fisher.

  • Matthew F Fisher, Blue into Green, 2020
    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.

     

    • Title, 2020, (detail)

      Title, 2020, (detail)

    • Title, 2020, (detail)

      Title, 2020, (detail)

    • Title, 2020, (detail)

      Title, 2020, (detail)

    • 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 the objects in Matthew F Fisher’s paintings withdraws, borne by its own bluntness, into inscrutable mystery. Plain as day, they still leave us wondering. This mystery is an effect, deployed knowledgeably but no less genuinely, as it is a property already present in the world to which Fisher is attuned. Despite what he has written, Fisher does not need an excuse to paint a pearl. Like a painting itself, it is but a momentary concentration of forces that would, from a broader time frame, continue unabated were they not reified into a commodity.

    • 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 that painting has always offered. Instead of flattering the viewer by effacing himself, Fisher paints the cosmic indifference that lies as much in a shell as a star. But in a move that can only be called human, Fisher shows this indifference to be manicured, almost comically idealized, into an image of our impulse to put things in order. Here, the gigantic and minuscule meet and mingle under the long shadow of history, where associations gather and cling.

    • 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 in Norfolk, Virginia. He is currently working on a study of composition in abstract painting after minimalism.

  • We are suspended in a moment, a sense of floating before and after time. There are no people. There is...

    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...

    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, Blue into Green, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, Blue into Green, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, March, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, March, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, In the Midst of the Masses, 2019
      Matthew F Fisher, In the Midst of the Masses, 2019
    • Matthew F Fisher, Formation in History, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, Formation in History, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, The Empty, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, The Empty, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, The Seer, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, The Seer, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, The Blythe Giant, 2018
      Matthew F Fisher, The Blythe Giant, 2018
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  • Drawings

    • Matthew F Fisher, Shared History, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, Shared History, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, The Sameness of Every Day, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, The Sameness of Every Day, 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, Basque (after Carmen Herrera), 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, Basque (after Carmen Herrera), 2020
    • Matthew F Fisher, Convergence Into the Opposite, 2020
      Matthew F Fisher, Convergence Into the Opposite, 2020
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  • Click here for Matthew F Fisher's CV
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