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Adam McEwen

Adam McEwen (Born 1965) is active/lives in New York, California / England.  Adam McEwen is known for Monochromatic death themed paintings, mixed media, graphite.

Executed in 2012, Untitled is an archetypal example of British-born, New York based artist Adam McEwen's graphite works. Cast from blocks of machine-chiseled graphite, the recognizable form of an ordinary metal shuttered gate takes on an entirely new identity, becoming both aesthetically and conceptually significant. Rendered entirely in dense, dark grey carbon, every detail of this specifically designed object has been faithfully recreated, while the very purpose of its existence, its working function, has been immobilized. Replicated in its original size and installed in such a way that it is experienced in as life-like way as possible, McEwen's radical treatment of an everyday object, habitual to most, commonly ignored, and highly atypical as the subject for an artwork, forces us to notice it.

By engineering encounters with such objects in a fresh environment, McEwen's graphite works dramatically confront viewers with scenarios that dominate   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5116 characters.]  Artist bio

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