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“I understand how the elements function and work together, but I don’t control how they work together. Sometimes they’ll spill out, sometimes you get the tiniest little nick and it’ll just bleed the pool dry. Sometimes my calculation is correct and sometimes it’s not. And sometimes they don’t work – failure is part of it.” — Landon Metz

On view now at the ADAA’s The Art Show (through November 7, 2021) is a new suite of paintings by Landon Metz, in a solo presentation by Sean Kelly. In this video from our friends at Bower Blue, we visit Metz in his New York studio as he discusses the philosophical underpinnings of his practice, as he prepares for the exhibition at The Art Show.

From Sean Kelly:

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce a solo presentation of new site-responsive paintings by New York-based artist Landon Metz, created specifically for The Art Show. In his practice, Metz continues to develop a language of refinement-by-reduction, eliminating the inessential in search of the fundamental. Breaking down distinctions between foreground and background, subject and object, his lyrical abstractions—in which pigment is slowly and methodically absorbed into the canvas in prescribed patterns—are a product of a careful synthesis that considers not just the production of the work, but also the manner in which it is presented and received.

Describing his process, Metz has observed, “I like to the think about the object of the painting as a form in the world, so it has a sense of physical self. One can separate that object from its environment, it has an autonomous physical nature.” For The Art Show, Metz, will create a series of individual, yet interrelated works that engage rhythm and repetition to respond to the architecture and structure of our booth.