Exhibition: Art Basel Feature MH PT

Matt Hoyt & Patricia Treib Art Basel | Feature June 14 - 17 2018

In a gallery space, four large abstract paintings are spaced evenly throughout. The painting depict bold abstract geometric shapes in various hues of color. The paint in the paintings is thin and gestural. In the center of the gallery space is a freestanding brown table with various miniature gray sculptures placed evenly apart. The sculptures are abstract and resemble organic material or bone formations.

Sculptor Matt Hoyt and painter Patricia Treib have each developed their own personal lexicon of abstract gesture and form through concentrated work focused on observation and modulation. Hoyt’s sculptures elicit a sense of deep geological time, seeming to hail from an epoch lost to history or from a distantly imagined future. The arrangement of handmade objects here are larger than Hoyt’s typical works, which would normally fit in the palm of a hand. His works resemble stony corals, bones, or seed pods, invested with the dynamic qualities of sea creatures or visionary architecture. Treib’s paintings also conjure up imagined spaces, appearing in the overlaps and gaps of lush and sensuous surfaces. Her new works build on a cadre of motifs which she modulates with careful deliberation from previous iterations of her own paintings. Treib focuses on compositions from a series of disparate images, delving into how color depicts form and delineates the shadows and spaces in between.

Trieb’s bold, translucent, and calligraphic gestures dance on the canvas, while Hoyt’s volumes and matrices seem to hold a locked potential. Their works inhabit a state between recognizability and mystery.

In a gallery space, two large abstract paintings are spaced apart. The painting depict bold abstract geometric shapes in various hues of color. The dominant colors are hues of green, red, pink, blue, brown, white, and black. The paint is thin and gestural. In the center of the gallery space is a freestanding brownish table with various miniature gray sculptures placed evenly apart. The sculptures are abstract and resemble organic material or bone formations.
In a gallery space, three large abstract paintings are spaced apart. The painting depict bold abstract geometric shapes in various hues of color. The dominant colors are hues of purple, yellow, blue, pink, brown, and black. The paint is thin and gestural. In the center of the gallery space is a freestanding brownish table with various miniature gray sculptures placed evenly apart. The sculptures are abstract and resemble organic material or bone formations.
In a gallery space, two large abstract paintings are spaced apart. The painting depict bold abstract geometric shapes in various hues of color. The dominant colors are hues of yellow, blue, green, brown, and black. The paint is thin and gestural. In the center of the gallery space is a freestanding brownish table with various miniature gray sculptures placed evenly apart. The sculptures are abstract and resemble organic material or bone formations.
In a gallery space, four large abstract paintings are spaced apart. The painting depict bold abstract geometric shapes in various hues of color. The dominant colors are hues of yellow, purple, pink, blue, green, brown, and black. The paint is thin and gestural. In the center of the gallery space is a freestanding brownish table with various miniature gray sculptures placed evenly apart. The sculptures are abstract and resemble organic material or bone formations.