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From artist's website: Roy McMakin is an artist, designer, furniture maker, and architect. His work seeks to bridge the space between art and design. McMakin received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1982. Faculty members Allan Kaprow and Manny Farber were important early influences. Indeed, McMakin exhibits many of what Farber famously described as “termite art tendencies,” in which the artist approaches a subject and gnaws at it over time and from the margins. To this day, McMakin’s termite approach continues to allow him to negotiate the slippery terrain between art and function by pulling art into the everyday, rather than pushing the everyday onto a pedestal. Much of the artist’s work crosses a threshold between utility and contemplation, meaning and anonymity. . . . Many recent sculptures are inspired by or incorporate found, vernacular furniture. The artist reworks these objects of American domesticity, making changes in scale and material to subvert how they are traditionally received.