b.1976, Boston, Massachusetts

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​​Matthew F Fisher’s work exists in the space between the universal and personal. His paintings live within this memory-as-reality, semi-rational in their structure. The meditative process through which he works is reflected in the calmness of his paintings. Fisher slowly and intentionally layers acrylic and ink onto the canvas, rendering objects with such dimension and volume that they appear sculptural against flat, gradient backgrounds. Inspired by childhood memories of spending time near the water and contemplating the vastness of the ocean, Fisher often paints seascapes featuring recurring motifs such as seagulls, crustaceans, and the rising and setting sun. Using the language of landscape painting as the middle ground between figuration and abstraction, Fisher simultaneously references past, present and future. This nod creates a limbo between polarities of natural and artificial, action and frozen, real and imagined and is where the narrative starts, and like the painted image, is finished in the viewer's mind.

 

Matthew F Fisher (b.1976) lives and works in New York, NY. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. His recent solo exhibitions include Matthew's Dream, Plato, NY (upcoming), Small Paintings, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2024), The Study of Shapes, SHRINE, NY (2023), Lakes, Devening Projects, Chicago (2022), Time and Space, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022), East Hampton Hole Phase Three, The Hole, East Hampton, NY (2021), Seas, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2021), The Great Fire, SHRINE, New York, NY (2020); After the Ice, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2019); Soft Nature, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (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 has been exhibited internationally at venues including Spazio 22, Milan, Italy and The Breeder, Athens, Greece. Fisher is the recipient of residencies and awards including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), Yaddo (2015, 2007), a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship (2010), and the Millay Colony for the Arts (2005).