Ochi Gallery is pleased to present Low Tide, a two-person exhibition with artists Claire Colette and Matthew F Fisher. The show is on view through July and August in Ketchum, Idaho.

A series of abstract landscapes created under quarantine by Los Angeles-based artist Claire Colette consider the psychospiritual relationship to the natural world and the mysteries that underscore our time here. Colette infuses the surfaces with natural materials creating subtle, low relief textures underlaying thin veils of paint.  Inspired by naturalist poets, mystics, and feminist writings, Colette’s paintings create atmospheres of expansiveness and liberation, connecting us to the elemental in increasingly chaotic times.

The abstraction of perfection defines Matthew F Fisher's landscapes. Fisher's imagery is the result of wanting to make a painting inherently about nothing, while painting something—a horizon, rock, ocean. With a narrative that is open, while still being personal, Fisher’s landscapes become real through their abstraction. Sense of space is furthered by the density of his imagery, multiple layers of acrylic paint create a heightened sense of color, texture, and weight.

Claire Colette is a French born, Los Angeles based painter. She holds an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA. Colette’s work has been exhibited nationally, including at Ochi Projects (CA), The Pit (CA), Harpers Books (NY),  La Loma Projects (CA), Ochi Gallery (ID),  Stephen Wirtz Gallery (CA), Joshua Liner Gallery (NY), Eleanor Harwood Gallery (CA), and Conduit Gallery (TX), amongst others. Colette has been an artist-in-resident at School of Visual Arts, New York and Root Division, Ca. Her work has been profiled in SF Arts Quarterly, MAAKE Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, BLOUIN ARTINFO, and The Conversation Art Podcast. Colette is in the collection of the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. In addition to her visual art practice, Colette has released two volumes of poetry.

Matthew F Fisher (b. 1976, Boston, MA) recent solo exhibitions include After the Ice, Taymour Grahne, London (2019), Soft Nature, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2019), Strange Light, Over Under Room, Brooklyn, NY (2018), Into the Blue, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA (2018) and Observable Universe, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY (2017). Group shows include Paper View at The Hole, New York, NY (2019), Perspex: American Shift, Spazio 22, Milan, Italy (2019), the two artist exhibition Night Waves, with Casey Cook, at SHRINE, New York, NY (2018), Pro Forma: Context and Meaning in Abstraction, curated by Vittorio Colaizzi, Work Release, Norfolk, VA (2017), and Crunch, The Breeder, Athens (2017). He is the recipient of residencies and awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2016), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York (2015, 2007) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2010), among others. Fisher received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2000) and his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (1998).

install images by Pauli Ochi