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Eric McDade

The Quiet Forest December 19, 2008 - January 24, 2009 (current)

Happy Life January 18 - February 10, 2008

Untitled #4

Artist's Statement: Notes from Inside the Fire.

I am slapping at the flames with lifeless hands. Hands which, until very recently, had lain for years in my lap like injured doves. This fire consumes all thoughts. People asking me what the fire feels like receive little more information than silent, tiny gusts of wind put forth from my lame hands flailing past their ears. An exceptionally insightful moment – rare and accidental, at best – might provide one with a slight graze from a chewed and ragged bit of cuticle, or perhaps even something as solid as a knuckle. But words are another matter. I can provide nothing verbally useful on the topic of how things are going, or what will be done about them. Not for some time. Not until this whole matter has been burned to smoldering little coals.

Until then I mumble and smile weakly through the smoke and record the arcs and jagged vectors cut through the flames by my cold, flapping hands, hoping they will eventually spell something intelligible.

- Eric McDade

Bio

Born in Detroit, MI, 1971
Lives and Works in Philadelphia, PA

Education
MFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
BFA Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1996

Awards

2005
Mural Arts Program Grant
2001
Mural Arts Program Grant

Bibliography

"Big Kids/Little Kids" by John Freeborn
“Philadelphia Introductions: Eric McDade” by Andrea Kirsh

Solo Exhibitions

2006
“More of the Same” Basekamp, Philadelphia, PA
“Let It Go, Already” University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
2004
“More Exercises in Self-Pity” Oulous Repair Shop, Los Angeles, CA
2003
“More Exercises in Self-Pity” Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2002
“Gilded Sores” Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2001
“More Reasons to Stay Inside” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Two-Person Exhibitions

2008
“Happy Life” hpgrp gallery, New York, NY
2007
“Ghost Boy” Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2008
“Big Kids/Little Kids” Traveling Exhibition: Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Raleigh
2006
“Test Patterns” Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
“Boobies” Falling Cow, Philadelphia, PA
2005
“Lubrica mi Vida” Diane Ashley Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Inhabit: An Apartment Installation” Inhabit Space, Philadelphia, PA
2004
“Red Dot 5” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“(Re)masters” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“November Coming Fire” Alley Culture, Detroit, MI
“One-Off!” Suave Lavanda, Philadelphia, PA
2004
“Berlinerkunstsalon” Berlin, Germany
“Grubstake” Basekamp, Philadelphia, PA
“Two Enter and One Leaves” Year Project, Brooklyn, NY
“Building Alteration Project” Mildred Monroe Elementary, Baltimore, MD
“Sequenzen” Subspace Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2003
“Factorial Debut” Oulous Repair Shop, Los Angeles, CA
“Red Dot 4” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Philly vs. New York” 222Gallery, Philadelphia, PA / Riviera, New York, NY
“Off the Wagon: Work by the ICA Crew” Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2002
“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be where I am today” Window on Broad, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Separations: Manufacturing Art / Skateboards” 222Gallery, Philadelphia, PA / Fourxfour, Hollywood, CA
“Hopscotch: Associative Leaps in the Construction of Narrative” Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
“Red Dot 3” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001
“Red Dot 2” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Buffered” Basekamp, Philadelphia, PA
2000
“PopArtExperimentalParty” The Khyber, Philadelphia, PA
1999
“Dolls” Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
1998
Telenium, Philadelphia, PA
1997
“Fellowship of PAFA Centennial Exhibit” Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996
“Linen” Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995
Mask Gallery, Detroit, MI
Biegas Gallery, Detroit, MI
“Available Space” Warehouse Exhibition, Detroit, MI
1992
“Big Fat Art Show” First Unitarian Church, Birmingham, MI