Ochi Projects is pleased to present Sculpture for Architecture, Daniel McKee’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

McKee’s sculptural works aim to be both (historically) referential in their materiality, and personal in their resonance; in discussing his process, McKee waxes poetic about a childhood visit to a cave in Indiana where he was encouraged to touch a stalagmite worn and glistening from previous visitors’ touch. His work lingers somewhere between a nearly adolescent curiosity and the determination of a loyal apprentice of a classical craft. With a meditative deliberation, McKee sculpts in stone, a process he describes as an evocation of the mediums complex history and simultaneous timelessness, a relic of future and past.

Two sculptures, two arches made of graphite, hint at the playful disposition of the form. Another anecdote, this time of an unruly gallery-goer reaching out to touch one of McKee’s sculptures adds to the allegory in the work. If touched, the graphite works will erode, marking whatever (or whoever) they come in contact with. Sculpture for Architecture is an exploration of McKee’s organic relationship to his practice, his art historical intrigue and his commitment to celebrating the essence of the material itself.

Daniel McKee’s work is exhibited alongside and in collaboration with Lilian Martinez’s solo exhibition Bart, Beethoven, Wifi, with two works on view made collaboratively by the duo.