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Rodney McMillian, Blue (galaxy within)

Rodney McMillian

Blue (galaxy within)

2020

Latex, acrylic and ink on bedsheet

93 x 64 inches

236.2 x 162.6 cm

Rodney McMillian, Site #3: stumps in plain sight

Rodney McMillian

Site #3: stumps in plain sight

2008 - 2014

Latex on bed sheet

109.5 x 70 inches

278.13 x 177.8 cm

Rodney McMillian, $7.99: a blue moon

Rodney McMillian

$7.99: a blue moon

2019 - 2020

Latex on blanket

47 x 61 inches

119.4 x 154.9 cm

Rodney McMillian, Couch

Rodney McMillian

Couch

2012

Couch and cement

32.5 x 88.5 x 32.5 inches

82.6 x 224.8 x 82.6 cm

Rodney McMillian, Untitled (setting sun)

Rodney McMillian

Untitled (setting sun)

2019

Latex on blanket

94 x 87 x 2 inches

238.8 x 221 x 5.1 cm

Mcmillian makes canny formal use of the geometric patterning of the afghans; in their intimate, handcrafted aura, he finds a deft foil to the heroics of the abstract sublime, which he both celebrates and undermines.

Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, May 2020

Rodney McMillian -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Rodney McMillian (b. 1969, Columbia, South Carolina) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. McMillian explores the complex and fraught connections between history and contemporary culture, not only as they are expressed in American politics, but also as they are manifest in American modernist art traditions. Aspects of his work negotiates between the body of a political nature and the politic of a bodily nature.

McMillian received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002. His installation In this land, 2019 was on view as part of the New Work series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 9 – June 9, 2019. He had a solo exhibition at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, CA in October 2019. He received the Contemporary Austin’s first Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize in 2016, and the resulting solo exhibition Against a Civic Death was on view through August 26, 2018. In 2016, McMillian had solo exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and MoMA PS.1. Each of these exhibitions highlighted a particular set of material and conceptual concerns in McMillian’s multivalent practice. Other recent solo exhibitions include “Landscape Paintings,” Aspen Art Museum, CO (2015); “Sentimental Disappointment,” Momentum 14: Rodney McMillian, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2009); The Kitchen, New York (2008). McMillian’s work was featured in the 2015 Sharjah Biennial, curated by Eungie Joo. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at The National Portrait Gallery, London, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among many others.