Taymour Grahne Projects in Dubai is currently hosting The Sun Years, a radiant solo exhibition by American artist Matthew F Fisher. Featuring a new body of work, this show invites viewers into Fisher’s contemplative world of elemental imagery and timeless natural phenomena. One is welcome to admire his art pieces until 12 January 2026.
Fisher’s paintings linger in the thresholds of experience: they capture the moment before a wave breaks, a moon rises at dusk, or sunlight scatters across a horizon. Through a stylised visual language of flattened forms, carefully layered colour, and recurring motifs (seashells, clouds, waves, and others), he creates images that are at once intimate and expansive. The artist’s work balances representation and metaphor, distilling natural cycles into serene, almost meditative compositions.
In The Sun Years, these characteristic elements coalesce into an immersive exploration of time, memory, and the cadence of nature. Among the highlights are paintings that reimagine skies and seas in new relationships, and, for the first time in Fisher’s imagery, monumental mountain peaks that hover above cloud lines, reflecting both timelessness and transcendence.
About the artist
Matthew F Fisher (b. 1976, Boston, MA, USA), who resides in New York City (USA), obtained a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (1998) and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2000). His practice revolves around elemental landscapes and universal phenomena, rendered with a distinctive blend of stillness and symbolic resonance.
Fisher has displayed his works in multiple exhibitions, which include Matthew’s Dream (solo) (PLATO, New York, NY, 2024); London Art Fair 2023 (UK); Contemporary Curated: Landscape (WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, China, 2022); Expanded Field (OCHI Aux, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2021), and others. Fisher’s art pieces are part of public collections, such as the New York City Department of Education’s Public Art for Public Schools, Fidelity Investments, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has also received prestigious grants and fellowships, including from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
To get more information about The Sun Years, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
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