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Painting
Julian MacMillan
Art is leisure which
is really labor, labor which is pleasure, knowledge which is actually joy and
is not knowledge; is un-knowledge. My practice is a process of learning through
play and production. I am curious about the sacred and the profane. My work is
physical and pictorial. I move freely between drawing, photography, printmaking
and sculptural techniques to complicate the distinctions between objects and
images. I am attracted to the highly graphic for its relationality to writing,
which I think belies its emphasis and clarity. I make work which inhabits
multiple temporalities; which locates its sentience in things long forgotten or
possibilities yet to be discovered; which renders the contemporary and its
preoccupations strange. I want to work at the scale of my own body. I want
viewers to be aware of their bodies as they encounter my work. I have a twin
brother. From this strange state of affairs, new, relational visualities can
materialize. I am not concerned with what is real. Somebody show me this real
thing.
![Bush (Burner with Fossils), 2019, styrofoam, acrylic, ink, photographs, epoxy resin, 40 x 25 x 25”.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e7b47dce8063978f7ebc73c882f7fd424ed5ea9965ecfcec30a8194e11112b5/6.jpg)
![Hot to the Touch (Out to Lunch) (Aft view), 2019, styrofoam, acrylic, ink, photographs, epoxy resin, 70 x 60 x 50”.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5597d71ed580c67e225baf46012321afdc03b5c43d00bfdebb9c4c9569e2513a/5.jpg)
![Be Where (floor drawing psychopomp face), 2020–ongoing, cast concrete, pigment, gravel, aquarium Pebbles, dimensions variable.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9dffc0174e750139a95a41c4f460a3417e2ef63ded77357b106df1e3d7efd4f/1.jpg)
![Be Where (floor drawing demon face), 2020–ongoing, cast concrete, pigment, gravel, aquarium pebbles, dimensions variable.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce72f5543f1dcd66a6f02292f1e7ba6ca4673e670a78d7d93ffdf943deb3207e/2.jpg)
![Vessel, 2019, styrofoam, poplar, acrylic, ink, photographs, epoxy resin, duct tape, 70 x 30 x 20”.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7518c2f5429f6ced72dc3d2e01437d3d4665d74d1d97840b76057c5d52559592/3.jpg)
![Setting (Viewfinder), 2019, gravel, aquarium gravel, acrylic, paper, 60 x 80”. Collaboration with Mack Sikora.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbc8023d4c1aa23437814c496fd9fcec90439f80c10ca86a9c5b262a1315b0d5/4.jpg)