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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

February 20 - February 20, 2013

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Please join us for the next talk from SFAI's Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: With a practice that encompasses roles as artist, designer, architect, and furniture maker, Roy McMakin wholeheartedly acknowledges an elasticity of meaning. His projects may appear to be objectively one thing—a chair or a house, for example—but they hold layered emotional content. Many of his pieces are inspired by visual and verbal puns and other conceptual conceits: a boudoir in which every drawer is painted a different shade of white and every drawer knob is a slightly different size; the frame of his adolescent bed bisected by a mirror to explore both physical and psychological space; a partially-shaved white and black shag rug that reveals how graphic flatness can depend on three-dimensional construction. McMakin’s art forces viewers to focus on the ontological complexities of furniture—which, while it occupies the same space as sculpture, is not culturally recognized as such. This event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP recommended. San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 McMakin has been the subject of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; and the Portland Art Museum. Group exhibition venues include Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. In 2010, Skira Rizzoli published a comprehensive monograph on McMakin titled When Is a Chair Not a Chair.