June 30 – August 11, 2012

Lora Reynolds Gallery is pleased to present Roy McMakin: A Few Drawings I Made for
a Show at Lora's Gallery. In the artist's own words:

                   Sorry to make things difficult, but the drawings are in fact just that: drawings.

                   Part of the reason I make drawings is that they don't have to be anything.
                   And they don't have to be figured out until they are done.

                   Some are minimal, some are streaming, some are of objects. They are
                   similar to one another.

                   Some of them have text, some have imagery, one or two is just a drawing
                   of a rectangle. They are pretty. And calm.

                   I made them for this show.

Roy McMakin's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) and the Portland Art Museum. McMakin's drawings are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York). He has completed permanent outdoor sculpture commissions for the Seattle Art Museum and the University of California (San Francisco). Roy McMakin lives and works in Seattle and San Diego.