Geoff McFetridge
These Days Are Nameless (The Drive, The River, And Hills)
September 20 - October 29, 2023
These Days Are Nameless is an exhibition of Geoff McFetridge’s three short videos from 2020 and the gouache works on paper used to animate them. The sounds and moving images included consider the curiosities of the human condition at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Where are we going? How do we get there? Does it matter?
In his typical minimalistic style, McFetridge draws on the familiar and the timeless- sounds of the city and of nature, sounds that transport you to different places and times. We hear, and we also see moving colours, shifting faces, flowing water, a dog barking or a cricket chirping, a pause, a thump, gentle music, static.
Geoff McFetridge’s works invite you to ponder on movement and the in-between while focusing on the specificities of the ordinary and mundane.
CIFF TRAILER | Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life
A documentary about the Alberta-born artist "Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life" will open the Calgary International Film Festival on September 21.
About the Artist
Geoff McFetridge (he/him)
Throughout his long and diverse career, Geoff McFetridge has worked across a vast array of mediums from poetry to animation, graphics to sculpture, textile and wallpaper to paintings. McFetridge has exhibited in galleries worldwide including Louis Buhl, Detroit (2022); Gallery Target, Tokyo (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2021); Half Gallery, New York (2021); V1 Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Blum and Poe, Los Angeles (2020); PlayMountain, Tokyo (2013); Heath Gallery, Los Angeles (2011) and New Image Art, West Hollywood (2006). Included in the Beautiful Losers exhibition (curated by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike) which debuted at CAC, Cincinnati in 2004, he has, also, been featured in exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Vancouver Art Gallery, Yale University Art Museum, Contemporary Calgary and Geffen Contemporary at MoCA Los Angeles. As a designer, he has worked extensively with brands including Hermès, Vans, Undefeated, Patagonia & Apple. Recently he has made public works for LA Metro & SOFI Stadium LA. Dan Covert's documentary on his oeuvre, Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life, came out to critical acclaim in 2023. Winner of the 2016 Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award and the AIGA Medal in 2019, McFetridge received his BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
