Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy

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Tony Feher , (1956–June 24, 2016)

Untitled

1999

Medium and Support: White wire coat hangers and wire

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Accession Number: 1999.22

Commentary

A collector of things discarded, Tony Feher is best known for the conceptual sculptures he assembled from consumer detritus and everyday objects. While much of his art can be characterized by a minimalist aesthetic of repeated forms and rigid patterns, his sculptures are anything but detached from emotion and ideas. Explaining his attraction to simple objects, the artist said, “When you strip things bare, you allow them to take on the possibility for broader meaning than if you explained them. Reduction opens the work up.” In Untitled, thin wire coat hangers hanging mobile in the gallery hauntingly evoke the absent human body and its accouterments as well as the transience of life.

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/21/2001 - 7/31/2001
Tracing the Sublime Addison Gallery of American Art , 12/16/2003 - 3/21/2004
The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
Lines of Action: Selections from the Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/28/2012 - 7/31/2012
Light/Dark, White/Black Addison Gallery of American Art , 1/17/2015 - 7/31/2015
To Make Visible: Art and Activism, 1980–2000 Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/16/2020 - 1/3/2021

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Exhibitions: To Make Visible: Art and Activism, 1980-2000

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