Cecil McDonald

Meditation on Things My Mother Gave Me, 2005
Photograph
30"x40"
Courtesy the artist

Cecil McDonald graduated with a MFA from Columbia College in Chicago. His photographs are constructed as tableaux vivants which describe familiar scenes filtered through an autobiographical lens. Intimate moments and relationships depicted transcend personal space to expose universal themes of domestic life and contemporary American society.

“The function of the image is to reposition the idea of the personal, the internal and the domestic. The photograph further supports this challenge, by providing a platform by which the idea of domesticity can be translated into a formal and aesthetic visual object and vocabulary.”