On an Overgrown Path

Matt Saunders explores hybrid forms between photography and painting, investigating how materials interact and transform across surfaces.

Why go

Saunders embraces chance and contingency in this exhibition, using improvisation and suspension between creative states to probe the material status of images and their mutability over time—a deepening of his decades-long investigation into the border between photography and painting.

What to expect

New works that de-stabilize traditional forms and media, blending photographic and painterly approaches with an emphasis on how images shift and transform within surfaces.

Things to know

• Artist has long explored the border between photography and painting.
• Exhibition runs 25 June to 7 August 2026 at Marian Goodman's New York location.
• Saunders engages with improvisation and suspension between states of creation.
• Work driven by fascination with material status of images and their positioning within surfaces.

Plan your visit

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–6 pm. Located at 385 Broadway, New York, NY 10013. Phone: (212) 977-7160.