Editions Fawbush is pleased to announce its second publication with Matthew McCaslin, entitled Exit. In this work, as with many recent sculptures, the artist addresses emotional states through the use of gestural, visceral and sometimes literal use of non-organic materials in a very organic way. Among other readings, Exit can be read silently as (No) Exit, the 'No' signifying the circuitous and ultimately definitive 'end' of numerous paths, roads taken, or lives lived. The electrical life force that travels through each conduit has, ultimately, no exit to make. Much of Matthew McCaslin's work deals with the intersection of nature and technology. He combines everyday construction materials or consumer electronics in a way that may invoke chaos or disorder, or formalism and minimalism. He works aesthetically with these materials, bringing our attention to an aspect of a man-made environment that is frequently overlooked, taken for granted or simply not thought of in an art context at all. McCaslin's solo exhibitions have included: Sleepwalking on the 27th Floor, Museum of Modern Art, St. Etienne, France; Winter Light, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Matthew McCaslin's Mixed Metaphors, Atrium Gallery, University of CT, Storrs, CT; Kunstbunker, Munich, Germany; Works - Sites, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria; Concentrations 28, Matthew McCaslin, Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Currents 65, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Harnessing Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Projects 33, The Museum of Modern Art, NY and Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France, among others. Group exhibitions have included: The Morning After, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; They Eye of the Storm, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland; The Eventual, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Selections from the Collection, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Avance Rapido: Media Art de la Coleccion Goetz, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain; The Giving Person, Museum of Modern Art, Naples, Italy; A Angles vifs, capcMusee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux; Following and to be Followed, Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Brooklyn Works, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Flower Power, Museum of Modern Art, Lille, France; Imago Musee de Beaux Arts, Dole, France; Body Power/Power Play, Worttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany; Tempo, Museum of Modern Art, NY; Night on Earth, Stasticsche Kunsthalle, Musnter, Germany; Works From the Permanent Collection, the Jewish Museum, NY; Retrospective Survey: 1987-2000, Wanas Foundation, Wanas, Sweden; Speed of Vision, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Light x 8: The Hanukkah project 2000, The Jewish Museum, NY; Endgames, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Off the Wall, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; I Love New York, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; Dijon/le Consortium, coll tout contre l'art contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Installation, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY; 2000 minus 3, Neu Gallery, Graz, Austria; Departure Lounge, The Clocktower, NY; Masculine Measures, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Urban Structures, Elf Kunstler aus New York, Kunstlerwerstatt, Munich, Germany; Drawn on the Museum, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Art at the Anchorage, Brooklyn Anchorage, NY; Passions Privees, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Country Sculpture, Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Der Stand der Dinge, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany; L'objects dans l'art contemporain, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France; More than Zero, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France; Cartographies Imaginaries, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Nord-pas de Clais, France; Portland Collects, Portland Museum of Fine Art, Portland, OR; Prospect 93, Schiern Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; Simply Made in America, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Translation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; The Big Nothing, The New Museum, NY; The Museum of Natural History, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA, among many others. Matthew McCaslin is represented in New York by Gering & Lopez Gallery.
