Roy McMakin "For"
Matthew Marks Gallery 523 W 24th St.
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The exhibition will include recent sculptures and photographs, as well as a series of photographs from 1985-86, featuring McMakin’s characteristic, meticulously made objects, which operate on the threshold between sculpture and furniture, art and craft. In many of the new works, the unexpected combination of stylistically distinct objects suggests various kinds of personal relationships.
The exhibition includes a number of works that incorporate old pieces of found furniture. In some, McMakin pairs the original with a new trompe l’oeil version, and in others he joins the old with the new, marrying a stark white table of his own making to its found partner. In the process, he carves the new table to perfectly fit the ornate shape of the older table.
Also in the exhibition is a small red circular table made from painted wood and enamel, in which McMakin both monumentalizes a mundane piece of furniture and transforms it into a fetishistic object. In another, a green-painted wood chest of drawers gradually widens in an anthropomorphic shape and features three-dimensional keyholes as handles.
The two series of photographs in the exhibition seek, through different means, a formal investigation of places and objects. The first series, from 1985-86, of seemingly banal scenes have been delicately carved into and/or painted on to accentuate subtle geometries within the image. The second series, started in 2006, are comprised of individual views of a found object combined together to achieve an undistorted perspective.
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Schedule
from May 03, 2008 to June 21, 2008