Projects
PAPER MIRROR
"Post 2020 pandemic lockdown, we see New York City storefronts in various stages of development, from fully open, to provisionally boarded up with wood and cardboard, to empty and labelled with "For Rent" signs. We also see street art both sanctioned and unsanctioned, signals of the city’s eternal creative life. For 601’s storefront, we present a new way of marking …
CLEANER
Postmasters Gallery, New York, December 7, 2019 A film work of cinematic scale, Cleaner traces the creative awakening of a maintenance worker. Her movements are framed within the routines of manual labor yet set against the work environment of the tech economy. The film, shot on location at the headquarters of Kickstarter, juxtaposes the physicality of traditional labor with the …
PUBLIC KEY / PRIVATE KEY
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Public Key / Private Key explores museums' ownership of art and the role of donors in building museum collections. For this project, the artists donated an original artwork, a 16mm film, to the Whitney Museum's Special Collection on behalf of members of the public. Visitors to the project page could register their names and explain why …
WORKSTATIONS
As part of our Workstations film trilogy we produced a series of 6 photographic images of personal work spaces. Absent their workers, they none the less depict the blend of personalization and standardization that saturates our era.
INFLUENCING OTHERS
In this video installation, a real estate broker sings a song about marketing techniques in front of a distorted conference table.
STAGING
Five photographs that combine youth and small scale in an elaborate construction.
BROKER
Shot on the seventy-seventh floor apartment of one of New York City’s many Trump Towers, BROKER is a meticulous portrayal of a high end real estate broker, seen here as the physical embodiment of the constantly accelerating pitch of luxury merchandising. The film uses the architecture of the apartment to create an echo chamber of life style messages - messages …
FIVE-SEVENTHS
"Five Sevenths" an installation which plays on the word "model apartment" by creating a slightly less than life size version of a model apartment for viewers to tour in the gallery. Sculpted from foam at 5/7" inch scale, the project imagines and records the viewer as an apartment hunter.
AERIE
Wall mounted shadow box depicting a fantasy landscape incorporating aspects of the San Francisco Bay area, Lord of the Rings, and the Twitter headquarters circa 2014. Contains an oil on canvas background, color photography, video screen, and electronics.
DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM SD
A collaged landscape of images from DeSmet, SD, this video is a winter portrait of the site of the famous Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House on the Prarie". In this work the stark landscape of Wilder's youth is juxtaposed with the architecture of the rural industrial present in the town near the homestead site. The McCoys were first drawn to …
DOMINION
Wall mounted shadow box depicting a fantasy landscape incorporating aspects of the San Francisco Bay area, the Dominion board game, and the Oracle headquarters circa 2014. Contains an oil on canvas background, color photography, video screen, and electronics.