Euan Macdonald "Man Crying, Punching Bag"

Sara Meltzer Gallery

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Sara Meltzer Gallery presents Man Crying, Punching Bag, an exhibition of new works by Euan Macdonald. Presented in the penthouse gallery, this is the second in a series of collaborative projects organized in conjunction with Andrew Heyward.

The works in this exhibition are based on a set of found sound effects records that document the work of Foley artists imitating everyday noises like “Cocktail Party”, “Ice in Glass” or “Forest Fire”. The label of each record lists the sound effects, which number in the hundreds.

Euan Macdonald has always been interested in serendipity and chance in the construction of artistic narratives. The Field is a two-monitor video close up of the 12” LPs spinning on record players with an accompanying soundtrack of the recorded sounds. The sounds, which have been artificially created, play over each other in a constantly shifting series of layers, hinting at unseen narratives.

A large print diptych titled Man Crying, Punching Bag illustrates two large circles formed from the sound titles, which have been scanned directly from the records. Theoretically, as the circles turn, spontaneous phrases and sentences will form as individual titles line up – hence the title of the work and the show. Similarly, a large scale photograph of one of the records lists a dozen sound effects. The titles read poetically in succession, building a short narrative of their own.

Euan Macdonald was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1965 and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for many years. His work has recently been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; The Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles and the Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Germany as well as gallery exhibitions around the world. His next exhibition will be a solo show at Western Bridge in Seattle, Washington.

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Schedule

from September 10, 2009 to October 17, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Euan Macdonald

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