Matt Magee
Matt Magee (born 1961) is an American contemporary artist who is best known for his minimal abstract geometric paintings, sculptures, prints, assemblages, murals and photographs. He has an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BA in Art History from Trinity University.
Over a career spanning more than four decades, Magee has experimented widely with abstract and conceptual art practices. Magee’s compositions are organizations of shapes that have been informed by personal history, numerology, and language. Re-purposing a variety of found and collected media characterizes his sculpture and collage while his paintings explore language symbolically with an emphasis on repetition and reiteration and nods to art historical precedents.
Magee was the 2017 Arlene and Mort Scult Award winner, the 2007 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation resident fellow, and winner of the Board of Trustees Award from the Silvermine Arts Center. He was also a 1991 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient. His work has been exhibited worldwide.
Related Works
- Magee tells ZB, "I like Ellsworth Kelly's work, most specifically I respond to the drama and sharpness of his edges and how he uses space." View Kelly's work.
News
- "Curator Kylee Aragon Wallis Interviews Matt Magee." Read the conversation.
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Women in Print
25 Sep - 23 Dec 2020Women in Print tells the often-overlooked story of female-founded print workshops, which kickstarted an American printmaking renaissance in the 1960s in 1970s that continues today. Prior to the 1960s, printmaking...Read more -
Match: Printmaking
31 Jan - 30 May 2020Opening in conjunction with CHROMO, the exhibition presents a display of emerging printmakers for the first installment of the Match curatorial program. Match encourages collectors to invest in early career...Read more
