Matt Gagnon’s sculptural practice is rooted in a deep investigation of material, process, and perception. Each work is built through a repetitive assembling of wood, glass, concrete, and other elemental materials into totemic structures that both contain and reveal a luminous core. These incremental layers echo the way time is marked: by moments that accumulate, by cycles of light and shadow, by the steady rhythm of growth and erosion. The sculptures are not fixed monuments, but dynamic presences that shift with their surroundings. As daylight moves across their surfaces, or as viewers change their vantage point, the works transform, revealing new patterns and depths. Materials with weight and solidity are shaped to hold an immaterial force, light, that constantly changes, never fully grasped. In this tension, the sculptures speak to the way we mark time not only through clocks and calendars, but through sensory experience, memory, and perception.
In addition to his studio art practice, Matt Gagnon has created installations for NASA, Louis Vuitton, Peter Marino, Gaggenau, the City of Los Angeles and more. He has also designed homes, furniture and sets for dance. He began his career working for Gaetano Pesce and Frank Gehry after studying architecture and dance at Cornell University. He has taught design at Otis College of Art and Parsons and exhibited his work internationally with exhibitions in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, Milan, Paris and London. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
