Works in Progress by Michelle MacKinnon
Working with powdered graphite and pencil on paper, Canadian artist Michelle MacKinnon explores sentiments of home through her recollection of the people who occupy it both currently and previously.
MacKinnon has always been fascinated with family as a defining social structure, as seen in her first solo exhibition Other Self, where she depicted those most influential to her in honest and oversized detail.
In her exhibition, A Rendering of the Once Familiar, MacKinnon reflects on how one can be comforted by the notion of home when its conventional state becomes physically no longer present, how it can endure and evolve within people and objects, and what its existence beyond spatial and temporal boundaries may be. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at Alison Milne Gallery.
See Michelle’s work:
A Rendering of the Once Familiar Alison Milne Gallery 134 Osler St. Toronto, ON, M6N 2Y8 On view until November 3, 2018
Find Michelle: Instagram: @michelleleahmackinnon @alisonmilnegallery
Website: www.michellemackinnon.ca www.alisonmilne.com