Unframed

Oil on wood panel

For over a decade, Ian Mackay has explored a quiet and intimate formalism to produce works that invoke a contemplative feeling while simultaneously referring to motifs, materials, and strategies from an array of periods on the art-historical timeline. His paintings are open-ended investigations of how mark making shapes aesthetic experience.  Sometimes the result of carefully observed depiction, or a mash-up of modernist and anti-modernist motifs, his paintings are both surprising and familiar.  In a fanning-out kind of questioning, Mackay pursues interesting tensions between accident and intention, surface, and depth, materiality, and illusion, all the while searching for the immanent in painting.

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