L.A. with a GLORY HOLE

"this town has glory for all of us."
vs.
"You just keep repeating the same thing obviously, This place is driving you insane" - Class Actress







Ambach and Rice moves to L.A!

will be home...
8.10.11 - 8.27.11
Opening Reception 8.10.11 (6-8 pm)

A group exhibition featuring works by:
(this will be their first exhibit in a new Los Angeles location. )

Grant Barnhart Ellen Lesperance Alon Levin Roy McMakin
Jeffry Mitchell Pablo Pijnappel Abigail Reynolds Karen Sargsyan
Martina Sauter Ron van der Ende Eric Yahnker



AMBACH & RICE
6148 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA



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Domestic Interiors:
the Home & Garden.

perfected arguments of form
new work by Roy McMakin
new planters at Sprout home.

McMakin's upholstered chairs alternately invite and admonish the viewer to sit down, their plush asymmetrical cushions dictating the space in which one can rest.


(watch an interview with him here..... via lora reynolds....)





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Domestic Interiors:
the Home & Garden.


There is a sense of quiet tension I observe in Roy McMakin's work. His serenely colored works are deceiving. Stick around , and you might hear them arguing. Or at least whispering.




1. Roy McMakin, Ambach and Rice, go here...
2. Geo Planters, via the amazing Sprout Home. perfect for the patio people!





"McMakin's work negates and challenges the presumed function and interpretation of our
domestic environments through his conceptual multi tiered practice as architect, furniture designer, entrepreneur and artist. Through his practice McMakin aims to emphasize the sculptural quality of utilitarian objects, resulting in works both awkward and irreverent, exuding a presence simultaneously monastic and mischievous.

For five chairs & ten tables the gallery becomes a furniture showroom, highlighting theimplicit relationship between art and commerce, an uneasy marriage typically spectacularized or refuted in the art world. McMakin resists both strategies opting instead to install his works without pretense or subtext, a gesture that could be construed as both banal and radical. The furniture included in the exhibit resembles actors suspicious of the role in which they were cast, faltering between implied function and sculptural autonomy.

Tabletops brashly cantilever over their pedestals while absconding voids that reveal the structures' hollow insides; a space habitually denied a presence, subsumed by functional expectations. McMakin's upholstered chairs alternately invite and admonish the viewer to sit down, their plush asymmetrical cushions dictating the space in which one can rest. McMakin's furnitureactivates our awareness of domestic entities that are otherwise taken for granted, resisting and transforming their passive and complacent associations."











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"when
is a chair
not a chair?"







Roy McMakin
When is a chair not a chair?
Written by Roy McMakin,
Contribution by John Baldessari, Michael Darling, Lisa Eisner and Michael Ned Holte
Pub Date: April 2010

The long-anticipated comprehensive monograph on the art world’s most admired designer. Roy McMakin is at once an artist, furniture designer, and architect. His seemingly simple chairs, tables, dressers, and other furniture pieces at first appear childlike and often whimsical; upon closer inspection these pieces evoke contemporary art references as well as domestic archetypal forms. Long a favorite among the art-world cognoscenti and tastemakers, McMakin’s creations seamlessly merge grandma’s furniture with modern design and contemporary art. Each piece of furniture, interior, or art installation is infused with rigor as well as humor through tweaked proportions, innately sculptural forms, and craftsmanship of the highest order. This long-awaited volume collects McMakin’s most important creations and commissions from his thirty-year career.


c/o rizzoli usa here.







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