Rodney McMillian
$7.99: a blue moon, 2019/2020
Latex on blanket
119.4 x 156 cm
47 x 61.4 inches
47 x 61.4 inches
B-RMCMILLIAN-.20-0002
Rodney McMillian explores the complicated relationship between history and contemporary culture, not only as it is expressed in American politics, but also as it manifests in modernist art traditions such...
Rodney McMillian explores the complicated relationship between history and contemporary culture, not only as it is expressed in American politics, but also as it manifests in modernist art traditions such as landscape painting. His paintings on knitted blankets, sometimes with clear representation of a landscape, reflect on the systems of exchange that domestic objects can exist in, and their relation to the histories they evoke, whether personal, national or art historical.