Geoff McFetridge, Coming Back Is Half The Trip, 2018. Sculptures in powder coated steel. Courtesy V1 Gallery, Copenhagen and CHART in Tivoli 2022
Photo: Jan Søndergaard
Geoff McFetridge, Coming Back Is Half The Trip, 2018. Sculptures in powder coated steel. Courtesy V1 Gallery, Copenhagen and CHART in Tivoli 2022
Photo: Jan Søndergaard
Geoff McFetridge, Bring to Front (Crawling Figure Floating on All Fours), 2022. Sculptures in powder coated steel. Courtesy V1 Gallery, Copenhagen and CHART in Tivoli 2022
Photo: Jan Søndergaard
About The Artist
Geoff McFetridge is interested in how images exist in-between or outside of language, and in turn how this encourages more open-minded approaches to cognition.
In his paintings, images become language; in the artist’s words, “it should feel like something, rather than look like something.” In the pictorial spaces he creates, definitions are less finite and can slip between interpretations.
As indicated by their titles, many of his paintings whimsically play with the bodily experience of design, using simplified figures to both think about forms and collective experiences.
Geoff McFetridge (b. 1971, Calgary, Alberta, Canada), received his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
McFetridge was part of the infamous Beautiful Losers collective which debuted its first major exhibition in New York in 1991 and went on to tour the world. He has continued to exhibit in international galleries since, and has been included in significant museum exhibitions.
Portrait of Geoff McFetridge
Courtesy of the artist and V1 Gallery
CHART in Tivoli map
