Exhibition
Stephen McClintock
8 Jan 2022 – 22 Jan 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 19:00
Address
- 3311 E. Pico Blvd.
- Los Angeles
California - 90023
- United States
de boer (Los Angeles) is pleased to present an exhibition by Stephen McClintock. Titled Rusty Cab Corners, this is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view in the west garden gallery at de boer January 8 through January 22 and online through February 27.
About
de boer (Los Angeles) is pleased to present a show of mixed media paintings on panel by Los Angeles based artist Stephen McClintock. Titled Rusty Cab Corners, this is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition of medium and small-sized panels will be on view in the west garden gallery at de boer January 8 through January 22 and online through February 27. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, January 8 from 4-8pm.
In this iteration, McClintock expands upon his exploration of the rugged American West turning images of trucks into portraits of a recent past. By removing the commercial focus of the imagery, McClintock seduces the onlooker, invoking a familiarity of American folklore. Presented in solitary settings, McClintock highlights the paradoxical nature of the subject, where rural iconography is at odds with urban corporate culture. Here the distinction between subjective desires and objective documentation has been eroded, creating a relic of society's yearning.
McClintock’s meticulous and labor intensive works are composed of 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.
In addition to the paintings, McClintock will create an installation of representational sculptures that call to mind the foil wrapped cheeseburgers in the warming trays of truck stops and vintage menus from “Bunny’s Hasty Tasty Pancake House” in Dayton, OH.
STEPHEN MCCLINTOCK’s work is forthcoming in a documentary style that sharply captures the veracity of the human condition. McClintock was born in New Jersey in 1984. He has had solo shows at de boer, Los Angeles; and New Release Gallery. 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, 9999 at The Fireplace Project. Stephen lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.