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frame (factory)
ring
tree
edge
milled
black walnut
paper
colored pencil
drawing (KM's hand)
maurice white
cushions
playing cards
abstract form
leather couch
pink shirt
long sleeves
jewelry
necklace
chain
watch
time
smile
mustache
eye brows
afro
hands pressed
prayer
reflection
a sheet of glass with metal coating
flip
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green cap
eye brows
tech beard
maloik
heavy metal
basketball jersey
white tee
microphone
chain
jewelry
long sleeves
potential green screen
name tag
Fox News
reporter
rapper
cam'ron
drawing (KM's hand)
colored pencil
paper
black walnut
milled
edge
tree
ring
frame (factory)
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(notes taken after a year of looking at That's the Way of the World/Do Ya
Thing (Remix) from frame 1 (2016-2008)/7 (2016-1946))
- Matt Town after Emily Anne Kuriyama
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QUEENS is pleased to present Rings, a solo project by LA-based artist Keaton Macon. Rings consists of a series of drawings that transcribe cultural events relevant to each other seemly by chance in time. Upon closer reflection, repeated forms, colors, and motifs found in the works suggest connections of a more concrete framework. Macon is an artist working in drawing, painting and installation. He uses images, objects and sound to allude to historical events and collective memory, and the gaps in knowledge and experience that they produce. These arrangements often skirt attempts of piecing back together events, in favor of producing sensory experiences that ground the viewer in the now.
His work has been exhibited at 356 Mission, AR Projects, Laurel Doody, PØST, RAFFMA at California State University San Bernardino, Shosanna Wayne, and was part of the KChung project series at The Hammer. This year Macon is included in the MexiCali Biennial and The Other Places Art Fair.