TONY FEHER
1956-2016

Over a career spanning more than thirty years, Tony Feher’s unique body of work recasts the utilitarian and familiar into sculptures both elegant and ambiguous in their perceived simplicity. His materials often included found items and common detritus, including bottles, containers, and glasses; empty vessels that served their immediate function, and are subsequently discarded. In careful arrangements, Feher foregrounds the aesthetic properties of these objects—color, shape, mass—against their physical disposability. The results are installations both vulnerable and poetic in their presentation, contemplating the endurance of form against the transience of meaning.

Tony Feher was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1956, and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, with early stops in Florida and Virginia. He received a BA from The University of Texas, and resided in New York City. Feher’s work can be found in important public collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. 

An in-depth retrospective of Feher’s work was organized by Claudia Schmuckli and presented at the Des Moines Art Center, IA, in 2012. The exhibition traveled to the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, TX; the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; and Akron Art Museum, OH. A fully illustrated monograph was published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. to accompany the survey.

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