MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN

ÉTATS-UNIS, RICHMOND

THE CONSTELLATION OF WOOD; A GEOMETRY WHICH HAS MEANING, A PROPOSAL TO FUNCTION, TO DO A JOB, NOT TO OBEY OR LEARN. GIVEN OUR OTHER PROGRESS, WE HOPE THIS WILL WORK TOO, TO BE CLEAR TO OTHERS, 2010

50 ACRES OF LAND PURCHASED IN ABITIBI, QUEBEC, CANADA
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST, HORTON GALLERY, NEW YORK, INMAN GALLERY, HOUSTON + GENTILI APRI, BERLIN

Michael Jones McKean was born in Truk Island in Micronesia, in 1976. He received his MFA from Alfred University in 2002 and his BFA from Marywood University in 2000. A recipient of numerous awards, McKean has been granted fellowships and residencies at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Central Michigan University as the Stephen L. Barstow Fellow and the Archie Bray Foundation. He has recently been awarded the Nancy Graves Foundation Award, an Artadia Award including an Artadia New York City Residency Fellowship, the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts and four State Arts Commission grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship. McKean’s work has been shown extensively nationally and internationally including recent solo exhibitions at Grand Arts in Kansas City, DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas, the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, SUNDAY and Horton & Co. in New York City, Project Gentili in Italy and Germany, as well as Inman Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. McKean is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Place Québec
880, avenue Honoré-Mercier

HOURS
MAY 1 TO JUNE 13, 2010
WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: 10 A.M. TO 7 P.M.