Rodney McMillian, comet

2015

Suggested by the title comet, a bright yellow bedsheet has an asteroid-like object crashing on its left corner while the bottom seems to be dissolving under rays of the sun. Offering an alternative take on landscape painting, McMillian purchased the bedsheet from a thrift store, noting, “my paintings are about the real in the sense that they are actual surfaces where we sleep, make love, relax, read books, nurse children, live life, and sometimes die.”