Jacob Mason-Macklin

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Jacob Mason-Macklin
© Jacob Mason-Macklin, courtesy of the artist and MAMOTH, London
Mason-Macklin’s oil paintings on linen fuse observational depictions of mechanical hardware with gestural renderings, articulating his fascination with sites of collision between sentient and mechanized subjects. These works recon- struct the relationship between the figure and the mechanical object on both abstracted and concrete terms. 
His origins in America’s Midwest, often referred to as ‘the rustbelt’ and the country’s former industrial heartland, lay beside his memories of living and working in New York City. Acclimating to yet another new cultural and geographic climate has given rise to a sense of alienation that adds fresh psychological layers to the core concepts of the work. Exploring a sense of natural disruption and the communicable conflicts this creates, these paintings also echo Mason-Macklin’s reckonings with disso- nance in the face of displacement, a search for structure and traversing of grief while commentating on the ever-evolving structure of humankind.
 
 
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Jacob Mason-Macklin
Jacob Mason-Macklin lives and works in Queens, New York. Mason-Macklin graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He is a 2016 alumnus of the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art and a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2021-2022, Mason-Macklin was an Artist-in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, New York, USA.

Recent exhibitions include: "The Future Won't Be Long Now" at SOMEDAY, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA (2023); "It's Time For Me To Go" at MOMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA (2022-2023); A duo-exhibition with artist Ryan Huggins at Page gallery, New York, USA (2021); "Soul Procession" at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2020); "Pure Hell" at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, USA (2020); "Bounty" with Cudelice Brazelton at the Jeffrey Stark Gallery in New York, USA, curated by Amanda Hunt (2017); etc.
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