Landon Metz
Landon Metz's work challenges the traditional medium of painting by placing it in conversation with installation, performance, and sculpture. Inspired by the Color Field movement, Metz creates large-scale biomorphic shapes of varying composition and depth of color using stains on canvas. His work incorporates and activates the gallery space as an integral element of the work, using the white walls as negative space between repetitive richly hued shapes. Metz's brushstrokes and careful variances between opacity and transparency elicits a sense of movement throughout the space. Metz posits that the role of the viewer is a component of the artistic process, and that a work requires an audience to invoke meaning. On his work, Metz states that "the paintings function as symbols that point toward their environment and have this open-ended relationship with the setting to the point where forms have been built and structured to be plastered onto walls rather than nailed into them...the wall remains intact."
Metz's work has appeared in solo exhibitions at numerous galleries including VI VII in Oslo, Norway (2017); Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City (2016); Galleria Massimo Minini in Breschia, Italy, (2016); Francesca Minini in Milan, Italy (2016); Andersen's in Copenhagen, Denmark (2015); James Fuentes Gallery …
Landon Metz's work challenges the traditional medium of painting by placing it in conversation with installation, performance, and sculpture. Inspired by the Color Field movement, Metz creates large-scale biomorphic shapes of varying composition and depth of color using stains on canvas. His work incorporates and activates the gallery space as an integral element of the work, using the white walls as negative space between repetitive richly hued shapes. Metz's brushstrokes and careful variances between opacity and transparency elicits a sense of movement throughout the space. Metz posits that the role of the viewer is a component of the artistic process, and that a work requires an audience to invoke meaning. On his work, Metz states that "the paintings function as symbols that point toward their environment and have this open-ended relationship with the setting to the point where forms have been built and structured to be plastered onto walls rather than nailed into them...the wall remains intact."
Metz's work has appeared in solo exhibitions at numerous galleries including VI VII in Oslo, Norway (2017); Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City (2016); Galleria Massimo Minini in Breschia, Italy, (2016); Francesca Minini in Milan, Italy (2016); Andersen's in Copenhagen, Denmark (2015); James Fuentes Gallery in New York (2015); COOPER COLE in Toronto, Canada (2014); and Preteen Gallery in Mexico City (2011). He has also participated in group shows internationally, including Art Basel in Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, Dallas Art Fair, and more. His work has been featured in Mousse Magazine, Interview Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, and It's Nice That. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
