Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present Traces, Allan McCollum’s first exhibition with the gallery and his first Southern California exhibition in 25 years.
Allan McCollum lives and works in New York City and has spent over forty-five years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world reliant on mass production. He has had more than one hundred solo exhibitions and his works are in nearly seventy major museum collections worldwide. McCollum’s labor-intensive installations are often comprised of many small components and tiny gestures which may seem at first glance to be identical but slowly reveal themselves to be subtly distinct objects.
Traces includes two new bodies of work, The Uncredited and The Writer’s Daughter, which explore McCollum’s search for meaning in things that have been lost or forgotten -- screen shots of art from the sets of his late father’s uncredited movie appearances and a child’s free-form imaginary alphabet. By examining, reproducing, and reconfiguring these “traces,” McCollum’s installations deliver a poignant evocation of identity lost and then remade.