Archive 2021 KubaParis

Rain Sounds

Travis MacDonlad, The glitch, 2020, oil on linen, 112 x 102cm
Travis MacDonlad, The glitch, 2020, oil on linen, 112 x 102cm
Travis MacDonlad, The interesting reflection trick, 2020, oil on linen, -21, 183 x 127cm
Travis MacDonlad, The interesting reflection trick, 2020, oil on linen, -21, 183 x 127cm
Travis MacDonlad, The estimation, 2021, oil on linen, 31 x 31cm
Travis MacDonlad, The estimation, 2021, oil on linen, 31 x 31cm
Travis MacDonald The family fountain Highpoint foodcourt, 2021 oil and marble dust on linen 183 x 127cm
Travis MacDonald The family fountain Highpoint foodcourt, 2021 oil and marble dust on linen 183 x 127cm
Travis MacDonald The magnolia, 2021 oil on linen 86.5 x 61cm
Travis MacDonald The magnolia, 2021 oil on linen 86.5 x 61cm
Travis MacDonald, Rain sounds, installation view, 2021
Travis MacDonald, Rain sounds, installation view, 2021
Travis MacDonald The samaritan, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 122 x 122cm
Travis MacDonald The samaritan, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 122 x 122cm
Travis MacDonald The sweet smother synthetic, 2019 oil on linen 38 x 45.5cm
Travis MacDonald The sweet smother synthetic, 2019 oil on linen 38 x 45.5cm
Travis MacDonald The end of the world, 2020 oil on canvas 138 x 152.5cm
Travis MacDonald The end of the world, 2020 oil on canvas 138 x 152.5cm
Travis MacDonald, Rain sounds, installation view, 2021
Travis MacDonald, Rain sounds, installation view, 2021
Travis MacDonald, Rain sounds, installation view, 2021
Travis MacDonald, Rain sounds, installation view, 2021
Travis MacDonald The German Shepherd with her ball of rubber bands, 2020 - 2021 oil on canvas 51 x 61cm
Travis MacDonald The German Shepherd with her ball of rubber bands, 2020 - 2021 oil on canvas 51 x 61cm
Travis MacDonald The sill, 2020 oil on linen 36 x 30.5cm
Travis MacDonald The sill, 2020 oil on linen 36 x 30.5cm
Travis MacDonald The blowback, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 183 x 254cm
Travis MacDonald The blowback, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 183 x 254cm
Travis MacDonald The America's favorite chair, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 51 x 61cm
Travis MacDonald The America's favorite chair, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 51 x 61cm
Travis MacDonald The castle repair, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 71.5 x 56cm
Travis MacDonald The castle repair, 2020 - 2021 oil on linen 71.5 x 56cm

Location

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

Date

09.02 –26.02.2021

Photography

Gina Diggle

Subheadline

Solo exhibition by Travis MacDonald at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 10th - 27th, 2021.

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A fountain. A magnolia tree on a street. A rose bush on a lawn. A cat sitting on top of a stack of chairs. A girl looking at a photograph of a cowboy. A static blur of a guy on my street who wears a mushroom shaped beanie in front of a nightclub queue. There is a Michael Jackson impersonator busking nearby. Two friends walking into flats in the rain, yellow light. A blanket being dried over a wall. The highpoint shopping centre food court fountain by sculpture Deborah Helpurn titled ‘family’, people dining. The interior of a car parked outside a large apartment frontage with a woman about to hop in. There are friends walking in the background. A snail. Tyre tracks on a grassy, weedy knoll. A moonrise, a signal and a campfire. A person giving thumbs-up towards a reflective skyscraper. An isometric aerial view of people shaking hands through an open door. A car blowing smoke towards a couple dancing and smoking cigarettes in front of a large building. A cairn. A section of a sign on a building that says ‘world’, at night. The sign in Palmerston nth that says 24/7. A snail moving four times. A German shepherd catching a ball of rubber bands. A floodplain bridge, a flood. An abandoned community project - a geodesic dome, with horses. A couple on a couch, but you can only see his arms. His watch is reflecting the window. Smoke blowing towards me from a distance at night. Smoke blowing towards me from a distance in the morning, an overpass. A young woman in a suit playing with string. A child and a man at a zoo looking at a crocodile. A man in the foyer of an apartment building carrying a Christmas tree, an evil looking child sitting on the stairs. A fireplace, a Beswick ceramic. A young male train passenger asleep on a samsonite, a leg. A mound of earth and its reflection in water. A recliner and a sitter. A tree and it’s reflection in a building. A painting of my studio with cymbal sculptures. A fallen tree on a road in a forest. A window sill, and rain. Hair oil stain on a wingback chair, A clock reflecting a light. An airport lounge window, a plane and ibis. Guitar lines, tropical trees and a moonrise (romantic painting). A corner with the weed, and the weed removed. Coat hooks. An aeron chair at a desk with picture frames. A guy walking up steps in a white shirt holding a dry cleaned white shirt. A castle renovation. The disappearing thumb trick. Estimating the width of something with your hands. A lectern. The tyre tracks, but through tree branches. Hi hats, ride, china, splash, chrashride cymbals and stands dancing. An infant's game in a waiting room. A fountain. A woman making a figure out of rocks. Signs, notices and a tower. A sun peeking around the corner. Wet blue concrete reflecting inside of a car, Sill. A freezer slowly envelopes a Nanas pie. Chemist sign in the hills. The man who didn’t see the spider web wore pinstripes. A wild boar in a tent. A camouflaged hoodie, a fence, a tree, a sleeper and a fountain. A sunset thats looks like an information symbol. A Madonna a child and a station wagon. A lamp reflecting in windows. The home made cart of my Aunty. A wagon wheel in a halfpipe. Braid/smoke. The edge of the continent is a beach. Rentbook. A roll of turf (but like Manet). Maddi and the heater. A green card table and a chair. The leather jacket over the chair, doubled. The town square has friends carrying an empty shopping trolly, getting buzz cuts and riding bikes. An electric drum kit and a lay-z-boy. A grand piano and ceramic bears. A telephone stand. A pair of face-off flared pants walking in the rain, the bottoms soaked, tattered and dirty. A giant bronze leg. A new housing development (just the roofs). A cairn. A stone wall and an orange sky. A young me practicing guitar, but an action figure sized guitar teacher wrapped around neck playing Joe Satriani. Door Beads and outside. Birthday cards (9 - 30). Spider-Man kid and a horse. Sewing up a hole in my pocket. Rock dog walks past a child care centre. Doc marten leg tries in vain to squash glassware into a suitcase. A bureau de change, a building of flags, a man working. A Le snack. An orchid in a plastic container. A cemetery beneath a vaportrail. A house on a truck. A hole and a ladder. A breeze brick and a city church. A fountain.

Travis MacDonald