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You're invited to the opening reception of exhibitions by artists Robert McCann and Meganne Rosen on Friday, November 1, 2019 from 5-8PM. This exhibition will be on view from November 8 - December 6, 2019.

Unreal Empire: Robert McCann
Robert A. McCann is a Midwest-based artist and educator. Born and raised in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri, he developed as a studio artist through his studies at Missouri State University, Indiana University, and as a Fulbright scholar based in Berlin, Germany.In the fifteen years since that time, McCann's paintings have frequently dealt with the potential for metaphors in our byzantine mass media culture, and the overwriting of epic and intimate events in the particular artifice of painting.

In the summer of 2017, he mounted the exhibition ?Staged Revolt? at the South Bend Museum of Art in South Bend, Indiana. He willhave a new solo exhibit at Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, in September 2019. McCann is currently an Associate Professor in the Departmentof Art, Art History & Design at Michigan State University, where he heads the Foundations Area of studio art fundamentals and teaches painting.

McCann describes his paintings as ?elaborate fictional spaces?. He utilizescharacters from pop cultures and subcultures to stage human drama. These visual threads spiral outward into the shared universe logic of Marvel blockbusters and Pinterest pin boards, and inward to personal mythologies and autobiographical fragments. The paintings use larger-than-life-characters from the world of wrestling, rock & roll history, or educational film reelsto evoke a fuzzy boundary between fantasy and reality. His works incorporate staging of affiliated subjects in fragmented narratives plays on a viewer's incomplete grasp of sublime subjects like memory, future-forecasting,or knowledge of society at large. The subsequent paintings bring together elements of landscape, portraiture, history painting, and improvisational abstraction.

Transparency & Toxicity: Meganne Rosen
Meganne Rosen graduated from Drury University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors (BAH) in Art History with minors in Fine Art and English in 2006. She completed her Master of Arts (MA) in Studio Art and Theory at Drury University in 2011. She currently resides in Oakland, California, where she recently graduatedwith a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. During her first year at CCA, she was the co-directorof the Graduate Student Alliance, a graduate teaching assistant for threeart history courses, and a gallery assistant for the exhibitions department.

Through the investigation of and experimentation with different kinds of materials, Rosen's works express discontent with the current political climate while reflecting on her experiences growing up in the American Midwest. Her art explores entropy, artifice, consumerism, and her place in the lineage of abstraction in contemporary and modern painting and its relationship with installation art. Using found matter, fiber works, oil and acrylic painting, remnant fabrics, and photography, Rosen composes mixed media pieces which are layered in visual dialogues. The work evokes an intimate recollection of garments worn, skins shed, and packaging discarded. Each assemblage or installation is a partnership between the materials she works with and the sociopolitical, cultural context of our times.


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