through Decemer 17th 2011
McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and the funereal. It identifies strands of European melancholy in the Pop object, and the scuffs of history and consumerism on the sheened surfaces of minimalism. His obituaries of living subjects highlight the blurred line between history and fiction. His repurposing of the over-familiar creates momentary ruptures which, in the words of one writer, “jolt us temporarily out of our indifference, owing to over-exposure, toward the signs that dominate our daily lives.”
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