Tony Feher

TONY FEHER

June 4 – July 22, 2022

TONY FEHER June 4 – July 22, 2022

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Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Tony Feher’s unique body of work recasts the utilitarian and ubiquitous into sculptures of elegant, ambiguous sublimity. The elements composing his structures and installations often include found materials culled from the everyday, items typically procured and consumed for one-time use before being discarded; jars, bottles, cords, containers, packing supplies, hangers, and marbles are only a handful of the various objects that appear within his works. Rejecting ideas of material hierarchy, Feher foregrounds the formal properties and aesthetic potential of these items against their physical disposability.

It is through this broad and inventive range of compositional formations that one fully conceives of Feher’s poetic interpretations of color, size, and space. At both small and large-scale, his sculptures and installations configure themselves to fully live within the space they inhabit. Jars positioned on shelves, crates arranged on the floor, and bottles hanging from ceilings are as idiosyncratic and intimate as our own quotidian encounters with these items outside gallery walls. Within this sense of familiar chaos, Feher’s work moves beyond a specific referentiality towards a transcendent, compassionate archaeology of life.

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Tony Feher (1956-2016) was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, with early stops in Florida and Virginia. He received a BA from The University of Texas and resided in New York City. Feher’s work can be found in prominent international public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, and The Art Institute of Chicago, IL. An in-depth retrospective of Feher’s work was organized by Claudia Schmuckli and presented at the Des Moines Art Center, IL, in 2012. The exhibition traveled to the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, TX; the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; and Akron Art Museum, OH. A fully illustrated monograph was published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. to accompany the survey.

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(Three), 2007 Glass bottles with plastic screw caps, glass marbles, vodka, galvanized steel wire, chain Bottles: 19.5 x 8 x 7 inches (49.5 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm) Length: 82 inches (208.3 cm), bottom of chain 20 inches up from floor

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Magic Blue Stick, 1992 Mixed media Dimensions variable

(Lapping), 2007 Glass marbles, plastic bag 3.5 x 23 x 17.5 inches ( 8.9 x 58.4 x 44.5 cm)

To Gather, Gather, 2006 Metal strapping 84 x 176 x 7 inches (213.4 x 447 x 17.8 cm)

(Calliope),, 2008 (Calliope) 28 glass bottles with screw caps, water, food color, and painted wood shelf 8.25 x 96.25 x 3.5 inches (21 x 244.5 x 8.9 cm)

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Untitled,, 2011 Untitled Glass bottles with plastic screw caps, green glass marbles, vodka, galvanized steel wire, chain 66 x 16 x 11.5 inches (167.6 x 40.6 x 29.2 cm)

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Untitled,, 2012 Untitled Glitter and spray adhesive on unfolded box 7.5 x 10 inches (19.1 x 25.4 cm)

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Red Pair Waiting, 2007 Wood block, glass bottles with metal screw lids, ink, water 25.5 x 10 x 5 inches (64.8 x 25.4 x 12.7 cm)

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Untitled, 1995 Glass jar with metal screw lid, multicolored marbles 5 x 1.625 x 1.625 inches (12.7 x 4.1 x 4.1 cm)

Maybe, 2001 Wood and metal produce crates, 2x4” wood blocks, aluminum paint, clear plastic beverage bottles with colored caps, and plastic pipe caps Dimensions variable

TONY FEHER

Born March 2, 1956, Albuquerque, NM Died June 24, 2016, New York, NY

EDUCATION

1978 B.A., University of Texas, Austin, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Tony Feher, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, June 4 – July 22, 2022 2019 Tony Feher, Plymouth Rock, Zurich, Switzerland, June 7 – July 22, 2019 2016 Tony Feher: Map For A Journey Not Yet Taken, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA,

November 18 – December 16, 2016 It Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, November 17 –

December 23, 2016 2015 Lying Between Green and Violet, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, December 27, 2015 – February 7, 2016 2014 Super Special Happy Group, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, November 1 – December 21, 2014 They arrived yesterday, dusty and weary from the journey, but in good spirits. Utah Museum of

Fine Arts at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, October 3, 2014 – December 15, 2015 Tony Feher, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, April 12 – August 17, 2014 Tony Feher, Lumber Room, Portland, OR, May 18 – July 12, 2014 Tony Feher: Two Works, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA, April 17 – May 17, 2014 2013 Free Fall, Diverseworks, Houston, TX, January 19 – March 16, 2013 Encore, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, November 22, 2013 – January 18, 2014 2012 Tony Feher – A Work in Four Parts, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, October 13 – November 7, 2012 Tony Feher, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, September 14 – October 19, 2012 Tony Feher, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, organized by Claudia Schmuckli,

May 11 – September 2, 2012; traveled to the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of

Houston, Houston, TX, October 13, 2012 – March 31, 2013; deCordova Sculpture Park

and Museum, Lincoln, MA, May 24 – September 15, 2013; Bronx Museum of the Arts,

Bronx, NY, October 6, 2013 – February 15, 2014; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH,

April 16 – August 17, 2014 Tony Feher, Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, January 12 – April 29, 2012 Tony Feher: Extraordinary Ordinary, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS,

curated by Emily Stamey, January 6 – December 3, 2012 2011 Next On Line, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, January 14 – February 12, 2012 2010 Tony Feher: Dr. Hawking, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, curated by Elizabeth Dunbar,

October 27, 2010 – March 9, 2011 Tony Feher, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, October 21 – November 27, 2010 2009 Blossom, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, November 7 – December 23, 2009 Wall Show, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, May 2 – June 20, 2009 47

2008 Tony Feher, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, October 21 – November 14, 2008 Re:Place, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, curated by Dan Cameron, April 18 –

October 5, 2008 Tony Feher, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, March 22 – May 3, 2008 Tony Feher, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY, March 21 – April 26, 2008 2007 Some Time Soon, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, curated by Deborah Fullerton,

June 9 – September 16, 2007 Western Edition, ACME, Los Angeles, CA, April 21 – May 19, 2007 A Single Act of Carelessness Will Result in the Eternal Loss of Beauty, Efroymson Pavilion Series

Inaugural Exhibition, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, curated by Lisa Freiman,

March 10 – October 21, 2007 2006 Tony Feher, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, November 5, 2006 – January 31, 2011 2005 Tony Feher, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, November 4 – December 16, 2005 New American Landscape Painting, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, organized by Rob Weiner,

October 8 – May 2006, 2005 2004 The Wart on the Bosom of Mother Nature, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, May 8 – July 2, 2004 Transport to Summer, La Fundación La Caixa, Lleida, Spain, curated by Cira Pasqual Marquina,

January 22 – February 21, 2004 2002 I’m Tired of Toast, Matrix 201a, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film

Archive, Berkeley, CA, curated by Adrienne Gagnon, September 22 – October 27, 2002 In Necessity of Hanging, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., May 17 – June 22, 2002 Maybe/Enjoy, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, curated by Susan L. Stoops, April 25 –

August 11, 2002 The Seventh Room, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, April 6 – April 30, 2002 2001 Maybe, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, November 17 - December 22, 2001 Red Room and More, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,

curated by Amada Cruz, June 24 – September 9; traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum,

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, November 13, 2001 – January 27, 2002 2000 Tony Feher, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, September 8 – October 6, 2000 Tony Feher, ACME, Los Angeles, CA, March 18 – April 22, 2000 ASISWAS, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY, January 13 – February 12, 2000 1999 1999, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, November 13 – December 23, 1999 And on the Eighth Day, Project Room and Window, Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary

Art, Toronto, Canada, June 13 – 26, 1999 Probably best seen in a dark room with the T.V. on, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips

Academy, Andover, MA, organized by Adam Weinberg, April 10 – May 23, 1999 Tony Feher, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., January 8 – March 5, 1999 1998 Tony Feher, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, January 10 – February 7, 1998 1997 Siempre Contigo, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, curated by

Nina Felshin, October 29 – December 14, 1997 Tony Feher, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, May 3 – June 21, 1997 1996 Project Room: Tony Feher, Boesky and Callery Fine Arts, New York, NY, November 21 –

December 21, 1996 Broadway Window Project, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, curated by Dan

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1995 Passing Through, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY, October 19 – November 25, 1995 Tony Feher, ACME, Santa Monica, CA, September 8 – October 10, 1995 1994 Installation for Poetry and Performance, The Contemporary, New York, NY, organized by Simon

Watson, September 17, 1994 Tony Feher at Wooster Gardens, The Gramercy International, New York, NY, April 29 – May 2, 1994 1993 Tony Feher: Sculpture, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, September 11 – October 9, 1993

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel La Colécion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

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