archival color print
2021
18 x 11
edition: 50
Hope is an archival color print with sculptured and hot gloss stamp printed in an edition of 50. This is impression #25 of 50. ARTIST STATEMENT: Language is liquid and as HOPE was drawn with water from a spoon onto pavement, I wondered how long it would take to disappear. Branched, hope flowed beyond itself, beyond the confines of its four letters and reflected an ambient light that gave it body and substance. Elemental and mercurial, hope found its own alchemical path and reached its fixed aspirational point. Hope stands for this moment. MATT MAGEE (1961) was born in Paris, France and has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Magee’s work is held in the collections of Museum Fine Arts Houston, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Albuquerque Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York and Twitter Inc., San Francisco.
