A Table

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Roy McMakin: A Table, the inaugural exhibition at its new location at 545 West 20th Street. Opening on Thursday, September 29, 2016, the exhibition is the first presentation of McMakin’s work in a New York gallery since 2008. Twelve new sculptures will be on view, each an exploration of the poetic potential of an ordinary table.

Like much of the artist’s work, objects in the exhibition cross a threshold between utility and contemplation, meaning and anonymity. McMakin writes, “I have always seen functionality as a tool I use to both understand and point out my fascination and relationship to objects, and to language. Call something a table, and you put your keys on it, and something happens. It’s profoundly transformative.”

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to represent Roy McMakin.