17/5/2007
Two exhibitions
Sunday, New York
Daniel Rich
Black Sunday
The Good People of Sunday are pleased to announce Black Sunday, a solo show featuring the artwork of Daniel Rich.
Using photographs found in newspapers and magazines as source material, Rich's enamel on wood paintings achieve a
graphic, hard-edged surface that questions the impact of historical and political events on social spaces and built environments.
Nurtured by his affection for graffiti and skateboarding, images of highly charged empty spaces permeate Rich's work. After
an elaborate, labor-intensive process of color mixing and masking, the images are then translated into bold paintings depicting
scenes such as: the Miami airport, government buildings in Iraq, a mosque spared by the 2005 tsunami, and Hamas' victory in
the Palestinian elections. In each instance, the individual participants are edited from the image, leaving the viewer with the
impression that a critical event occurred just moments ago.
While Rich attempts to stay as true to the original photograph as possible, removing the human component allows the artist to
heighten the significance of the captured moment. In this regard, the paintings provide the viewer with an opportunity to
reconsider the physical effects of violence and destruction in distant places that may have initially been overlooked in the
original photograph.
Daniel Rich (b. 1977, Ulm, Germany) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received a MFA from the School of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston; a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art; and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Later this spring, a large-scale work will be featured in his second exhibition with Mario Diacono in Boston, MA. Black
Sunday is the artist's first New York solo exhibition.
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Michael Jones McKean
In the project space: The Good People of Sunday are pleased to announce new small-scale works by Michael Jones
McKean. Exploring states of in-betweeness, the spaces between experience and perception, understanding and meaning,
fantasy and reality, success and failure, McKean's works can be seen as loosely woven three-dimensional narrative collages.
Michael Jones McKean (b. 1976, Truk Island, Micronesia) lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. He received a MFA from
Alfred University, Alfred, New York and a BFA from Marywood University in Scranton, PA. A recipient of numerous awards,
Michael has been granted fellowships and residencies at The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Central Michigan University as the Stephen
L. Barstow Fellow and The Archie Bray Foundation. He was recently awarded the Nancy Graves Foundation Award in 2005
and the Artadia Award in 2006. He's also received The Jeanne C. Thayer Fellowship in the Arts along with four State Arts
Commission grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Diverseworks, Houston and
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. His first New York solo exhibition is scheduled for September at Sunday.
For further information:
C. Sean Horton
sean@stirusfreeus.com
Sunday
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