Winston Wächter Fine Art is excited to announce our second solo exhibition with Los Angeles sculptor Matt Gagnon. Formally trained as an architect, Gagnon is sensitively aware of how we use space, and the impact that can have on our emotional response to our surroundings. Through his light stack sculptures, Gagnon pays careful attention to each element, texture, and color, and what those might evoke. They are subtle symbols of our pasts, our travels, our memories.
“The Light Stacks is an ongoing series mining the emotional frequencies of color, material and texture. Marks from a formalist who wants to be a poet. The process involves incessant additions and subtractions in search of moments where materials harmonize in unexpected combinations. Endlessly nonlinear and open to distraction the stackings, directed towards the same vertical conclusion, become vestigial columns from misplaced memories. The question I ask over and over while making these – will this material sitting on this material change ho
