Gary Rough

Fergus McCaffrey is pleased to announce an exhibition of mixed-media sculptures and works on paper by Gary Rough.

Rough’s practice is conceptual, appropriational, and expressionist. For his second exhibition at Fergus McCaffrey, he has gathered together prefabricated metal bathroom stalls, custom neon lighting, recycled wood sculptures, and his own distinctly crafted works on paper to create an installation that daubs high-church Minimalism and Conceptualism with the slapdash paintwork and carnality of any well-worn New York City dive bar.

The artist’s vocabulary of idiosyncratically rendered hearts, crosses, fetishized amputated legs, scribbled textual confessions, and thunderbolts unites Rough’s work through a distinct narrative voice. His texts and sculptural forms, which are sourced from the street or are personally composed, display a disturbing and volatile mix of explicit rage, tender intimacy, and frank confession.