Currently based in Richmond, Virginia, American artist, Michael Jones McKean will exhibit The Gilded Scab, a new large-scale sculpture in PARISIAN LAUNDRY’S bunker space. In keeping with the sculptural language of McKean’s recent works, The Gilded Scab’s central axis is a large platform loosely responding to the limits of the architecture. The clad, polished steel of the platform becomes the pivot-surface for a merger of inchoate materials, refined sculptures, surrogates, artifacts and objects that are at once wholly tangible in their physical here-and-now-ness, yet also sweetly unsettled as the projected narrative space loops elliptically in a constant state of becoming. Michael Jones McKean (Truk Island, Micronesia, 1976) is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Nancy Graves Foundation Award and an Artadia Award. McKean has been in residence at The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Mckean regularly exhibits internationally, most recently at Art Athina, in Athens (Greece) and the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv. (Israel)
