A Round Table With Thirty Coats of Blue Paint
Western Bridge is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Roy McMakin, I Continue to Believe in the Potential to Express Hope and Sorrow through Furniture. McMakin shows new and recent sculpture, furniture, photographs, video and drawings, along with a career-spanning selection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
McMakin has been an uncredited presence in every show at Western Bridge, which was designed by McMakin/Domestic Architecture and in places built by his workshop, Big Leaf Manufacturing. After serving as a congenial home for the works of over 300 artists in eight years, Western Bridge welcomes the artist who designed it.
The first-person title spotlights something always present in McMakin’s works, underlining the direct, though sometimes overlooked, emotional content. The show is suffused with the artist’s signatures: formal play with familiar objects, found or fabricated; jokes both light and dark; logic pursued to the point of irrationality. It also contains elements of explicit autobiography. Sometimes you have to point out that your heart is in fact on your sleeve.
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