SESSION 5 - July 21–26

Macon Reed is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, painting, and social practice. Their work has shown at venues such as the National Art School (Sydney), San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), La Patinoire Royale (Brussels), the University of New South Wales Gallery (Sydney), Columbia University, Brown University, Royal Academy of Arts Schools (London), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design NYC. They received First Prize at the 2023 Louisiana Contemporary exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Reed completed their MFA at University of Illinois at Chicago (2013) and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2007). They studied Physical Theater at Dah International Theatre School (Belgrade), Radio Documentary at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (Maine), and Socially-Engaged Arts at The Kitchen (NYC). They attended residencies and fellowship programs at Royal Academy of Arts (London), Eyebeam Center for Art+Technology, Amherst College, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

These Are Not Fables, 2021

Dimensions: 52 FT x 26 FT x 12 FT

Location: Tinworks Art, Bozeman, MT

Materials: Wood, velvet, soil, cardboard, paper clay, polyester, nylon, rubber, found objects, joint compound, firework powder, rope, rubber, acrylic gouache and latex paint

These Are Not Fables is a large-scale installation of six altars dedicated to different aspects of the pandemic. As its tunnel-shape narrows, viewers approach a sculpture of a rotating “Tower” card from the tarot. Depending on its position – upright or reversed – the Tower card suggests either calamity or a new beginning. The card sculpture spins over two chalices, representing a choice between the two in our pandemic response.