MIXTAPE
Don Fodness, Matt O’Neill and Jeff Starr
Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present Mixtape, a three-person exhibition featuring works by Don Fodness, Matt O’Neill and Jeff Starr
October 17, 2025 - December 7, 2025
Opening Reception: October 17, 2025, 8pm - Late
For Immediate Release:
Lane Meyer Project is proud to present Mixtape, a three person exhibition featuring artwork by Don Fodness, Matt O’Neill and Jeff Starr.
This exhibition brings together three artists whose esoteric, surreal and sometimes grotesque styles and sensibilities seem to naturally dovetail together. Mixtape includes examples of painting, drawing and printmaking, often in combination. Older work is also on display, offering an opportunity to observe the aesthetic cohesion in a particular artist’s evolving discipline.
Artist Statements:
Jeff Starr: Living in Upstate, NY, one is aware of the dual realities of a landscape that inspired the Hudson River School alongside evidence of post-industrial economic stress: convenience stores and empty factory buildings near Thomas Cole’s studio; lottery scratch ticket litter; and contentious gentrification. I paint the landscapes within my work, often heavily referencing Hudson River School paintings. The painted intrusions on the landscapes are made using acrylic and marker, and depict forms suggestive of contemporary everyday life. The archival inkjet prints on display are an accurate representation of the original work, and comprise of a sample of the larger “Dollar Tree” project.
Donald Fodness: My imagery is a collision of sources, styles, and subjects that operate as an open-ended and nonlinear construction of reality. Like the Internet, and a good soap opera, my art provides the viewer with a multiplicity of accessible inlets and subnarrative paths weaving a tangled cosmos. Crawling over, climbing out, hiding within, defacing and digesting its surroundings; these psychological environments filter culture through a feedback loop of the kitsch and banal to surface a grotesque comedy.
I work with readymade systems and personal narrative as a departure point. These structures provide me with parameters for finding, hiding, and projecting imagery. While I insert personal history within the work, I am less interested in autobiography than in viewers recognizing themselves within the complexity.
Bios:
Donald Fodness earned a BA degree in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an MFA in Painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fodness has an interdisciplinary practice that includes drawing, sculpture, furniture and installation. His drawings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Regionally he has created site specific installations for the Denver Art Museum, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA Denver, The Gallery of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs, two Biennial of the Americas. His work has been published in New American Paintings, Sculpture Magazine, Yahoo home page, Found Magazine, Vice Magazine’s Creators Project, art LTD, and as a guest on Modern Art Blitz along with adult film actress turned artist Oriana Small (AKA Ashley Blue).
Fodness is an active community member, curator, and collaborator with TAD Projects. He co-founded Drawing Never Dies, which hosts an artist residency (out of a treehouse), art exhibitions, and a publication centering drawing as the most primal and essential act of visual communication. Since 2007 he has served in higher education at various institutions including University of Denver, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and CU Boulder. He currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
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