A rose-colored martini glass, a doily-like candy-apple-red ashtray, and a diamond-cut olive-green drinking glass dangle from steel wires and zinc chains attached to the ceiling. The pattern gets repeated many times over, on eight different wires, creating a suspended rainbow out of everyday objects in Tony Feher’s new installation at ACME in Los Angeles.
An artist known for his minimalist constructions of everyday objects ranging from water bottles to found glass to plastic bags, Feher twists and reconsiders his materials with a powerful sense of color and rhythm. The interplay of white, muted light from ACME’s galleries on the multicolored antique vases, cups, and trays can make the entire arrangement appear to wink with irony, while also letting the colors naturally glow within this strange constellation.
The delicate installation, which has a surprisingly risqué title, will be on view until July 6; Feher also currently has a 25-year retrospective organized by Houston's Blaffer Art Museum that is traveling the country. It is now on view at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, until September 15, and then moves on to the Bronx Museum for the Arts on October 6.
