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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Cecil McDonald, Jr., 1200 meditations, things my mother gave me, Domestic Observations and Occurrences series, 2005  © Cecil McDonald, Jr., Harmonic Portico, Imaginary Play series, 2007  © Cecil McDonald, Jr., Genius at Play, Imaginary Play series, 2007 |
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Born: 1965, Chicago, IL Resides: Chicago, IL Heritage: African American Selected Exhibitions: The Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2011 Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO 2009 The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 2009 The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2009 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008 Art unit, Haarlem, Netherlands 2008 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2008 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE 2008 City Gallery of Photography at the Historic Water Tower, Chicago, IL 2007 Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 NOVA Art Fair, Chicago, IL 2006 Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL 2005 Philadelphia African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Leica Gallery New York, NY 2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 2001 Education: MFA, 2006, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL Awards: The 3Arts Teaching Artist Award 2010 Residencies: The Artadia New York Artist Residency 2010 Midwest Voices & Visions Residency 2007 Publications: Nueva Luz photographic journal, Volume 16#2 (En Foco: Bronx, 2012) Artist’s Statement: The images in Domestic Observations and Occurrences, represent an extended look at the moments and relationships that occur within the domestic environment. I’ve constructed the photographs as tableau vivants in order to re-examine the embodiment of the everyday moment. By using family members and employing a directorial hand, I reconstruct moments from a collected memory, moments that once realized become buried and forgotten. In reconstructing these moments I seek to add a layer of emotional, psychological and formal drama to the significant activities that make up our lives. This method relocates the reading of the photograph, linking a document to an autobiographically infused performance, a staged retelling, discernable by a masculine experience and mindset. These works seek to heighten the attention to those things which are close to home at a historical moment when we are more focused on the macro and global. The function of the image is to reposition the idea of the personal, the internal and the domestic. The photograph further supports this challenge, by providing a platform where domesticity can be realized as an aesthetic object and discussed as a subjective idea. Ideas as objects... both inform and contrast the larger societal relationships and issues that ultimately concerns us all. Website: |
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