Tony Feher (Estate)

Tony Feher (Estate)

Tony Feher (b. 1956, Albuquerque, New Mexico; d. 2016, New York City) was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, with time spent in Florida and Virginia. He received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied architecture.

Feher presented numerous solo exhibitions at galleries such as Sikkema Jenkins & Co., D’Amelio Terras, PACE, and Wooster Gardens in New York; Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco; Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston, Texas; Richard Telles Fine Art and ACME in Los Angeles; Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado; and Plymouth Rock in Zurich.

His work is held in institutional collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago.

An in-depth retrospective organized by Claudia Schmuckli premiered at the Des Moines Art Center in 2012. The exhibition traveled to the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Texas; the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; and the Akron Art Museum, Ohio. A fully illustrated catalog was published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. to accompany the exhibition.

In 2022, Gregory R. Miller & Co. published the first monograph dedicated to Feher’s drawings, Tony Feher: Drawings, with texts by Josh Pazda and conversations with Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka.

Works

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Wood, OSHA Safety Green paint, glass bottle, water, red food dye

30 x 2.125 x 4.75 inches

1994

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Glass jar with metal screw lid, glass marbles (yellow, red, blue)

6.75 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches

1993

Monumental Sculpture

Casein on wood in two parts

7 x 16.5 x 4 inches

1993

Perpetually Disintegrating Sculpture

Cardboard, silver paint, sponges, black cloth

6 x 12.5 x 10 inches

1993

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Steel hardware cloth, wire, silicone, C-print

9.5 x 9.5 x 9.5 inches

1987

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Glass honey jar with metal screw lid, sixteen colored glass marbles

5.87 x 3.25 x 2.25 inches

c. 1991-1992

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Thread, watercolor on paper, cardboard box, masking tape

4.5 x 4.5 x 4.25 inches

1986

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Cardboard box, tape, thread

7.25 x 13.25 x 7.75 inches

1986

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Glass jar with metal screw lid, thirty-seven objects arranged in a group

Jar: 6 x 3 x 3 inches; objects in grid: 9 x 8 inches

1992-1993

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Metal welding rod

7.5 x 7 x 8 inches

1987

Decorations for my Funeral

Steel hardware cloth, plastic flowers

10 x 6.75 x 6.75 inches

1990-1991

Magnolia

Can, knives

13 x 8 x 8 inches

1992

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Aluminum foil, fifty-seven glass marbles

1.25 x 12 x 7.5 inches

1992

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Painted cardboard box, sand, plastic flower

6.75 x 10.5 x 6.5 inches

1987

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String, three glass marbles in mesh bag (dark blue, bright blue, and clear with orange center)

Dimensions variable; mesh bag: 5.25 x 2 x 1.5 inches

1990

Exhibitions

Tony Feher

Tony Feher 1986-1994

May 7–June 25, 2023

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