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Opening Reception: Solo Exhibition | Matt Magee | Elemental
The work in this exhibition engages the concept of the elemental in both material and idea. Magee’s formal investigations respond to the spare architecture and light in the gallery and within the surfaces of the work itself.
In addition to paintings and prints, the main gallery will feature an installation of sheets and shards of mica on panels. These works change with ambient light and the viewer’s position, offering perceptual qualities in ways best experienced in person.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Matt Magee is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of geometric abstraction, language, and personal iconography. He draws on personal history, numerology, and language to build forms that carry traces of travel and a lifetime of collecting. Repetition and sequencing give the compositions a meditative rhythm, balancing warmth and rigor in his visual language.
Born in Paris in 1961, Magee spent his early years moving between Tripoli, London, and Texas. His father, a geologist and archaeologist, took him on trips through the American Southwest, where he began collecting small objects that would later inform his practice. As a young adult he worked on a seismic truck in Laredo, Texas, recording vibrations sent into the earth to determine underlying geologic formations. He later served as the chief photo archivist for the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, an experience that further shaped his way of looking and gathering.
