NEW YORK, NY.- Knoedler Project Space presents Matt Magee: New Paintings, an exhibition of abstract oil paintings created in 2009–2010, including a number of works from On a Clear Day, 2010, a series of 7 x 5 inch oils (painted on announcement cards for a 2005 exhibition of a 1973 series of screenprints by that title by Agnes Martin), in which the artist executes variations on the “theme” of Martin’s underlying grid. While this series points out a lineage between Agnes Martin and Magee, elsewhere his exploration of optical harmonies and patterns has been compared to Albers, Noland, and Tomaselli. And Magee, himself, acknowledges strong influence from Myron Stout and Forrest Bess. In a recent statement on his work, Matt Magee described himself as follows: Matt Magee is a scavenger and archivist and his paintings are based on systems of randomness and order. Submerged in the repetition and