In his self-titled exhibition at James Fuentes on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, emerging artist Landon Metz’s most recent work activates the gallery space itself, using the walls as important negative space between the deep indigo hues of his stained canvases. Metz effectively creates a disorienting space for the viewer, making it appear as though he copy-and-pasted one asymmetrical shape onto the gallery walls with intentional disregard for corners and doorways. The original shape is thus interrupted, broken, and distorted into new forms. Following his show at Retrospective Gallery in Hudson, New York and a multi-floor installation at the ADN Collection Residency in Bolzano, Italy, “Landon Metz,” which is now on view, marks both the artist’s first solo show in New York City and a visual departure from his previous work. Metz’s former works often consisted of large-scale paintings displaying abstract forms, not dissimilar to those implanted on the walls at James Fuentes. The difference is his shift from the canvas to the gallery wall, making the canvas into the shape instead of presenting the shapes on the canvas. Prior to the opening of the show, we sat down with Metz at his studio in Brooklyn and discussed his new approach to the one of most defining aspects of his work.
Year: 2015
Clients: Interview Magazine
Category: Interview