STEPHEN MCCLINTOCK

KENOPSIA

January 9 - February 27, 2021

de boer gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition and limited edition publication of new paintings by Stephen McClintock. In his first exhibition with de boer, Brooklyn, NY and Dayton, OH based McClintock transports the viewer to the rugged American West.

In these meticulous and labor intensive works McClintock composes images onto an aluminum panel, working back into them with spray paint, crayon, mean streak and finishing the surface with a layer of buffed fiberglass. The process here treats the paintings like they are fresh from the auto body shop, while the centralized compositions create a portrait and seductive dreamscape where desires and objective documentation collide.

The title of the exhibition is an invented word from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a compendium of words that give name to new emotions. Kenopsia is described as “the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned.” Like a closed down factory in the rural landscape that's not just empty, but hyper empty.

Appropriating commercial photography while constructing a narrative around consumer and popular culture, McClintock assembles these pictures in an exhibition that addresses repressed memories.

STEPHEN MCCLINTOCK has had solo shows at New Release Gallery, and Louis B. James in New York, NY. He has also exhibited in group shows including Mental at Muddguts in Brooklyn, NY; GREEN at the Spring Break Art Fair in New York; Malmo Sessions at Carl Kostyal; and 9999 at The Fireplace Project. Stephen lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Dayton, OH.

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