Roy McMakin
ROY MCMAKIN is both an artist and accomplished designer. He runs his design company Domestic Furniture / Domestic Architecture out of Seattle. McMakin’s furniture is often incorporated into his artwork. He combines form and function, furniture and visual art, to produce hybrid objects of clean, sensuous surface with humorous underpinnings. Roy McMakin's work often plays with scale and language, inviting both visceral response and conceptual contemplation.
In the text for Roy McMakin: A Door Meant as Adornment, Michael Darling writes;
"Poetic interconnections with the words “adore,” “adornment,” “ornament,” and “store” make them ripe for McMakin’s gamesmanship and allow him to conflate disparate concepts and uncover surprising connections. For Roy McMakin, furniture artwork and domestic architecture have long offered a framework within which to enact these contextual corruptions, bringing poetic play home to where it naturally and comfortably encounters the body on a daily basis.”
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Distant Light
A Group Exhibition of Black and White Work 7 Apr - 19 May 2018 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeAndrew Alcasid Michael James Armstrong Barry Bell Adam Belt Kelsey Brookes Gisela Colón Stephen P. Curry Kenneth Capps Mara De Luca Roman De Salvo Thomas Demello Peter Dreher Tom Driscoll...Read more -
ROY MCMAKIN | Some Drawings and a Table
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue 3 Aug - 7 Sep 2013Quint Contemporary Art (QCA) is pleased to present ROY MCMAKIN: Some Drawings and a Table , a solo exhibition by Roy McMakin and WORKS ON PAPER II: Work by Peter...Read more -
DISSECTING NATURE | Group Exhibition
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue 14 Jan - 25 Feb 2012“Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.” – Aristotle Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs, video and mixed media...Read more -
Roy McMakin and John Mclaughlin | Behind What It's In Front Of
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue 21 May - 16 Jul 2011Paintings by John McLaughlin Sculptures and videos by Roy McMakin Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibition space with Behind What It’s In...Read more -
Double Up Double Up | Group Exhibition
Quint Contemporary Art: 7739 Drury Lane 11 Jun - 3 Jul 2010Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Double Up Double Up , which opens on Friday, June 11 and runs thru July 3, 2010. We are excited...Read more -
Roy McMakin | A White Table and A Black Table, Each Depicted in Photographs and Sculpture
Quint Contemporary Art: 7739 Fay Avenue 7 Sep - 13 Oct 2007Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present new sculptures and photographic works by Roy McMakin. The exhibition will run from September 7 to October 13, 2007 with a public reception...Read more -
Roy McMakin | A Table, Two Chairs, A Small Chest, One Large Painting and Several Drawings
31 May - 5 Jul 2003 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeQuint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its fourth solo exhibition for artist Roy McMakin featuring new drawings, a painting and furniture. Roy McMakin is known as both an artist...Read more -
Roy McMakin | 2 To
23 Feb - 17 Mar 2001 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa Fe