
7.125″x4.75″; paper collage; 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Fischer Gallery
COLLAGE ON VIEW
cut/form
at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, California, USA
2 November-20 December 2024
Maritta Tapanainen’s collages and David Fought’s sculptures at first glance could not be more different. Yet both artists, as they examine form and line and the space between, engage us in the conversation.
Tapanainen’s work uses the most delicate of materials for her collages and what’s interesting is that the plaster surfaces of Fought’s sculptures are also delicate and fragile, yet they appear solid within their realm of influence.
The Tapanainen collage work creates multi layered subtle surfaces that are minimal in their use of color, giving translucence to them. As we examine the work, it begins to reveal itself in forms and shapes and tones that pulse with tension, texture, and release.

22″x15″x17″; plaster, metal rod. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Fischer Gallery.
The sculptures by David Fought present an abstract architecture of form, volume, line, and surface. The planes we are asked to consider and examine swoop, converge, and coalesce into beautiful monochromatic fields interrupted at perfect intervals by the rudeness of a gorgeous bit of rust.
The metal rods make lines that focus our attention on the armature and framework of the sculpture, at the same time lending support and definition to the plaster.
Maritta Tapanainen’s collages stand in startling contrast to the Fought sculptures, yet they both share an abstraction ethos. These abstractions by Fought and Tapanainen bring to our eyes an idea of Agnes Martin’s explorations. Specifically as we examine their surfaces, both works begin to approach color field paintings.
(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)
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