Matt Gagnon | Feeling Color

About

Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to announce Feeling Color, an exhibition of light sculptures by Los Angeles based artist, Matt Gagnon. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the New York gallery. Trained as an architect, Gagnon is deeply interested in the physicality of materials and their ability to conjure feelings along with memories. These works dig to unearth emotional frequencies of color, material, and texture by combining glass, metal, stone, wood, and concrete. The transformative light of the pieces, built by elements of surface and tone, invite the viewer into their glow.

Matt Gagnon has been creating variations of light forms for decades. His series, Stacks, is inspired by half lit skyscrapers at night that exposed the life inside and allow imagined narratives to be constructed. To create these striking towers, Gagnon layers bands of materials that vary in opacity, seeking moments where they harmonize. The exterior expression of each stack is dependent on the amount of ambient light present. A dark room will display the opaque pieces in the stack as a silhouette against the glow of the translucent pieces. The daytime neutralizes the interior lights and elevates the exterior color and texture. Ultimately, creating a dynamic experience for the viewer