"Feher's delight in the commonplace, his focus on the concrete and the immediate, and his aversion to symbolic excess also invite comparison to the great American poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), who like Baudelaire, made the stuff of everyday life his primary area of concern. Williams's memorable credo - "for the poet there are no ideas but in things" - finds its visual counterpart in Feher's emphasis on ordinary material phenomena, on crafting singular moments of perception, and on the absolute importance of seeing and presenting things as they are, with minimal embellishment." Claudine Ise

"By accumulating the most lowly castoffs of our throaway economy - finding some, buying others - arranging them with an eye to their inherent poetics, and then getting out of their way, Feher has, over the past decade or so, created a body of work that inverts the diminishing returns of a contemporary sculptural practice that has grown bloated on costly fabrication. Although Feher's forebears are minimalists and conceptualists, and he thrives on materiality and repetition, his pieces never result from establishing a set of rules and following them through to their conclusion. Feher is a specificist, someone who thinks in things. It's never a bottle, always this bottle; never some bags, but rather these bags. The artist's refusal to bully his materials or get cut with them makes for work striking in its humility, poise, and subtlety." Glen Dixon

"Tony Feher has the most supple sculptural intelligence of his generation. He is both tender and caustic, a critical postformalist and a cosmos builder. He's also light on his feet. Rather than spending money on traditional art supplies or at the fabricator, Feher assembles much of his work from consumer detritus or the hardware store and only borrows from the most poetic aspects (presentation, sequence, light quality) of Minimalism and installation art." Joe Fyfe

Bring Out The Best should be placed in a window or other bright, casual location. Its diminutive scale draws the eye in; its primary colors are cheerful and its shapes familiar and friendly. Bring Out The Best can be grouped in various ways or exist singly.

Tony Feher has had solo exhibitions at the Foundacion La Caixa, Spain, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Worcester Art Museum, MA, UCLA Hammer Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY, Weseleyan University, Middletown, CT, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, and The Contemporary, New York; as well as numerous gallery exhibitions. He has been featured in group exhibitions at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Serpentine Gallery, London, England, the 8th Annual International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, MoCA Chicago, IL, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, P.S.1 Museum, New York, and The Drawing Center, New York, as well as numerous gallery exhibitions. Tony Feher is represented by the D'Amelio Terras Gallery, NY.


Other artworks by Tony Fehr