Editions Fawbush is pleased to announce its third collaboration with Matthew McCaslin, Tulip. The sculpture continues the series of works the artist creates using industrial or Home Depot-style materials, a language of economy that the artist uses to relay ideas both formally and intuitively.
 
Layers of meaning can be found in every McCaslin work. The sculptures can be seen as existing exclusively on a traditionally minimalist level, with a repetition of shapes and materials that recall other industrial works of contemporary art created within the last 50 years. However, McCaslin uses these materials (light fixtures, conduit, electrical wiring) to draw moments of emotional meaning from these forms as well, either through the viewer’s associations with its shapes and materials, or atmosphere created by the light that surrounds the sculpture. Occasionally the references are literal, as when McCaslin employs video as part of a sculpture, or the sculptures themselves resemble specific objects, as Tulip does. McCaslin often references the natural world in his work; sometimes it is as direct as found video footage of flowers repeatedly opening and closing at high speed. Other times it is found in a title, and sometimes it is just the similarity of a coil of wiring on the floor to a mass of exposed roots or vines.
 
McCaslin has exhibited internationally since 1987, with recent one-person exhibitions in Stockholm, Cologne, London, Madrid, New York and Paris. An upcoming exhibition at Le Consortium in Dijon, France will feature a new large scale site-specific installation. His work can be found in the permanent collections of LA MoCA, Los Angeles, CA; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Jewish Museum, New York; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; and the Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne, France.