Chez Coronado is pleased to present Molly McDonald’s “Perfect Show”. The show is on view through November 17, 2024 by appointment.
I’ve never seen a moose, only the head on a wall, I can only imagine encountering the body. The mounted head was so huge, picturing the full moose felt like standing really close to a skyscraper and thinking it is falling as your knees buckle.
-Molly McDonald
Molly McDonald’s “Perfect Show” is not a show about perfection. It’s not a show about ceramics. Believe it or not, it’s not even a show about moose, although the moose is surely the vehicle. Rather, “Perfect Show” is a show about conversation. McDonald has said that a perfect painting is a painting of a horse. Power, beauty, nature, and simplicity exist at once within its likeness. It is a known form, one of which has been painted since the beginning of Paleolithic mark making. Susan Rothenberg, who so famously painted a series of horses that straddled the line between abstraction and figuration, said “The horse was a way of not doing people, yet it was a symbol of people, a self-portrait, really.” “It was never about making a pretty horse. It was something else.” This is where McDonald’s work lies as well, but instead of a horse, a moose.
