Bronx Museum of the Arts Opening Tony Feher Exhibition

The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced the opening of the Tony Feher Exhibition. The artist Feher came to fame in the 1990s, inspired by the minimalists that preceded him. Feher pioneered using materials with a new focus on the sculptural qualities of the everyday. Taking advantage of the generally overlooked and discarded, he highlights their formal qualities while simultaneously imbuing them with personal meaning.

The artist’s affection for non-precious, commonly available materials has been very influential with the younger, hip generations. Tony Feher also engages site-determined, architecturally-based installations that are often of large-scale.

Tony Feher’s recent commissions include the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kanas, a public artwork for the Federal Courthouse in Rockford, Illinois, and the Hudson (Show) Room at Artpace in San Antonio. The exhibit opened first at the Des Moines Art Center in the Spring of 2012, Houston in October of 2012, subsequently to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, then finally terminating at the Bronx Museum for the arts in the fall of 2013.