Matt Magee | Hope 2021
Hope, 2021
Archival color print with sculptured embossment and hot gloss stamp
11 x 18 inches
Edition of 50
Printed by Publicide Inc., New York, NY
Hope, 2021
Archival color print with sculptured embossment and hot gloss stamp
11 x 18 inches
Edition of 50
Printed by Publicide Inc., New York, NY
Hope, 2021
Archival color print with sculptured embossment and hot gloss stamp
11 x 18 inches
Edition of 50
Printed by Publicide Inc., New York, NY
Hope, 2021
Archival color print with sculptured embossment and hot gloss stamp
11 x 18 inches
Edition of 50
Printed by Publicide Inc., New York, NY
I try not to aim
anywhere as such,
head nowhere special;
I’ve got this idea
I keep to myself
that if I stay still,
I mean really still
so that the trembling
stops, I’ll uncouple
hope from desire.
-RUFO QUINTAVALLE
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Planthouse is pleased to present HOPE 2021 by Matt Magee published in an edition of 50.
ARTIST STATEMENT: Language is liquid and as HOPE was drawn with water from a spoon onto pavement, I wondered how long it would take to disappear. Branched, hope flowed beyond itself, beyond the confines of its four letters and reflected an ambient light that gave it body and substance. Elemental and mercurial, hope found its own alchemical path and reached its fixed aspirational point. Hope stands for this moment.
MATT MAGEE (1961) was born in Paris, France and has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Magee’s work is held in the collections of Museum Fine Arts Houston, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Albuquerque Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York and Twitter Inc., San Francisco.