2024 Virtual Cohort
Spring 2024 | Summer 2024 | Fall 2024
Met virtually
With Canopy Mentor
Matt Phillips
Artist
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Matt Phillips, the artists developed their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort met virtually for three consecutive semesters. Their experience culminated with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Stephanie Eche
Laura Chassaigne
Amelie Mancini
Carrie Johnson
Heather McPherson
Luisa Montoya
Maha Eddé
Maria Huang
Laura Von Rosk
Emily Weiskopf
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
Fuzzy Wheel
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
December 12-14, 2024
OpeningThursday, December 12, 6-8 pm
ClosingSaturday, December 14, 3:30-4:30 pm
Fuzzy Wheel is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Matt Phillips, as part of the 2024 Canopy Program.
Fuzzy wheel: a simple machine in forward motion becomes blurry, plush, and playful. From a distance, all logic falls apart and crisp legibility melts into loose impressions. The ten artists presented here share an interest in the indeterminacy of edges (physical, psychological, temporal). They think about the limits, mysteries, and possibilities of vision, and embrace a tension between utility and play. They have a common inclination to see the inherent strangeness of all form, embodied by the soft architecture of a fuzzy wheel.
Approaching these ideas through figuration and the staging of complex intimacies, Laura Chassaigne, Stephanie Eche, Maria Huang, and Amelie Mancini make work about maternal energies, the mind-bending intensity of domestic life, and the push/pull within every embrace.
Working through languages of abstraction and the metaphysical, Maha Eddé, Heather McPherson, and Emily Weiskopf index the spontaneity of the subconscious, trace the recesses of memory, and diagram perceptual glitches, forming fresh beauty.
Depicting landscapes both invented and observed, Luisa Montoya, Carrie Johnson, and Laura Von Rosk use encounters with nature as diving boards into imagination, unsettling divisions between inside and outside and mapping the unseen content that pulses behind every empirical observation.
Fuzzy wheel: a simple machine in forward motion becomes blurry, plush, and playful. From a distance, all logic falls apart and crisp legibility melts into loose impressions. The ten artists presented here share an interest in the indeterminacy of edges (physical, psychological, temporal). They think about the limits, mysteries, and possibilities of vision, and embrace a tension between utility and play. They have a common inclination to see the inherent strangeness of all form, embodied by the soft architecture of a fuzzy wheel.
Approaching these ideas through figuration and the staging of complex intimacies, Laura Chassaigne, Stephanie Eche, Maria Huang, and Amelie Mancini make work about maternal energies, the mind-bending intensity of domestic life, and the push/pull within every embrace.
Working through languages of abstraction and the metaphysical, Maha Eddé, Heather McPherson, and Emily Weiskopf index the spontaneity of the subconscious, trace the recesses of memory, and diagram perceptual glitches, forming fresh beauty.
Depicting landscapes both invented and observed, Luisa Montoya, Carrie Johnson, and Laura Von Rosk use encounters with nature as diving boards into imagination, unsettling divisions between inside and outside and mapping the unseen content that pulses behind every empirical observation.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Matt Phillips' Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Talia Levitt
Guest Artist
Maud Madsen
Guest Artist
Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani
Art History Speaker
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Amir Fallah
Visiting Critic
Kate McNamara
Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Seth Curcio (Shulamit Nazarian)
Visiting Gallerist
Jen Hitchings
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Caitlin MacBride
Virtual Painting Workshop
Loren Erdrich
In-person Sunday Drawing Salon
Vic Roth
Virtual Sunday Salon
Canopy Mentor Matt Phillips
Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works often employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.
Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC,NY; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; and Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Mass, Tokyo, Japan; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC,NY; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; and Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Mass, Tokyo, Japan; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
