Reframed

Taos Art Museum at Fechin House

December 18, 2021 - January 31, 2022

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Sited in the former studio of Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin, this selection of works by Taos-based artist and architect Matthew Thomas is a conversation between two artists. With over 20 works in wood, paper, and cardboard, the exhibition challenges the binaries of new and old, local and global, authentic and appropriated, art and craft, skilled and unskilled, and the masculine and feminine. 

Reframed is a series of drawings, constructions, and patterns fabricated from new and reclaimed materials. Broken down, cut up, rebuilt, and repositioned, these works are textures drawn from a familiarity, from (un)common histories, and from the self. The process evokes an awareness of tradition and craft while raising questions about context, place, and modes of production and consumption over the past 100 years. 

These works are a practice in seeing. Reframed explores the integration of place and identity into a physical and tactile realm. This site-specific exhibition is a merging of personal journeys into a collective experience through the rigorous production of objects and images. These constructions question where inspiration begins and how authenticity, value, and identity is derived.