OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH (057)

For his exhibition at Andersen’s, Metz extends this project by turning his focus to the viewing experience itself. The artist looks to the gallery space as both vehicle and content, his ongoing explorations of serial composition newly translated through inventive strategies of presentation and scale, isolating the painted forms into self-contained objects and doing away with the surrounding ground. In so doing, Metz recasts the gallery itself as pictorial plane, the walls effectively serving now as “canvases” in a single large-scale composition.

Landon Metz (b. 1985, USA) 
Central to the artist’s practice is a deep interest in the material and immaterial functions of a studio-based practice: approaching each aspect of his process as a viable medium in itself, the artist produces lyrical, conceptually driven works whose content lies not only in the resulting object, but also in the methods used to produce and present it. Formally speaking, his serialized motifs imbue a lyrical repetition of biomorphic, pseudo-organic forms rendered in colored dyes on unprimed canvas.

Landon Metz will feature in a two-person exhibition together with the work of Morris Louis at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York later this year.  His recent solo exhibitions include the Antonio Dalle Nogare (ADN) Collection in Bolzano following an artist residency; as well as James Fuentes Gallery, New York in February 2015.