2024 Canopy Mentor

Matt Phillips

Artist

Based in Brooklyn, NY

Cohort Artists

Virtual Cohort

Spring 2024 | Summer 2024 | Fall 2024

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Matt Phillips, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet virtually for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).

Cohort Exhibition

Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.

Fuzzy Wheel

Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E

December 12-14

Opening

Thursday, December 12, 6-8 pm

Closing

Saturday, December 14, 3:30-4:30 pm

Fuzzy Wheel is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Matt Phillips, as part of the 2024 Canopy Program.

Fuzzy wheel: a simple machine in forward motion becomes blurry, plush, and playful. From a distance, all logic falls apart and crisp legibility melts into loose impressions. The ten artists presented here share an interest in the indeterminacy of edges (physical, psychological, temporal). They think about the limits, mysteries, and possibilities of vision, and embrace a tension between utility and play. They have a common inclination to see the inherent strangeness of all form, embodied by the soft architecture of a fuzzy wheel.

Approaching these ideas through figuration and the staging of complex intimacies, Laura Chassaigne, Stephanie Eche, Maria Huang, and Amelie Mancini make work about maternal energies, the mind-bending intensity of domestic life, and the push/pull within every embrace.

Working through languages of abstraction and the metaphysical, Maha Eddé, Heather McPherson, and Emily Weiskopf index the spontaneity of the subconscious, trace the recesses of memory, and diagram perceptual glitches, forming fresh beauty.

Depicting landscapes both invented and observed, Luisa Montoya, Carrie Johnson, and Laura Von Rosk use encounters with nature as diving boards into imagination, unsettling divisions between inside and outside and mapping the unseen content that pulses behind every empirical observation.