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GARTH GREENAN GALLERY - Roy McMakin

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2016 · Entertainment

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Artist: Roy McMakin
Exhibition Title: A Table
Exhibition Dates: September 29 – November 12, 2016
Gallery Link:  http://www.garthgreenan.com/exhibitions/2016-09-29_roy-mcmakin-a-table/artists

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Roy McMakin: A Table, the inaugural exhibition at its new location at 545 West 20th Street. Opening on Thursday, September 29, 2016, the exhibition is the first presentation of McMakin’s work in a New York gallery since 2008. Twelve new sculptures will be on view, each an exploration of the poetic potential of an ordinary table.
Like much of the artist’s work, objects in the exhibition cross a threshold between utility and contemplation, meaning and anonymity. McMakin writes, “I have always seen functionality as a tool I use to both understand and point out my fascination and relationship to objects, and to language. Call something a table, and you put your keys on it, and something happens. It’s profoundly transformative.”
Many of the recent sculptures are inspired by or incorporate found, vernacular furniture. The artist reworks these objects of American domesticity, making changes in scale and material to subvert how they are traditionally received. The sculptures, which are always meticulously produced, explore at what point an object can no longer be considered “useful.” As Michael Darling writes in his introduction to the catalogue accompanying McMakin’s 2003 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, “If it’s built like a table and looks like a table but doesn’t exactly work like a table, can it still be a table?”



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