Rosalita (Umbrella)

Rosalita (Umbrella) was painted by Mac Love in 2008, and is a continuation of Love’s Umbrella Series of paintings.

Diamond (Red)

Diamond (Red) was painted by Mac Love in 2005, following his voluntary deportation from Scotland and while in residence at The Hygienic Galleries & Co-op, in New London, Connecticut. Diamond (Red) is a continuation of Love’s Umbrella Series of paintings, and depicts a crystalline umbrella against a ferocious red backdrop. Diamond (Red) explores and reflects Love’s grief, frustration, hope, and aspirations at a time of uncertainty.

The painting was donated to a charity auction and raised $5,000 in support of HIV (A.I.D.S.) treatment and care.

Last Sunday

Last Sunday was painted in 2003-2004 and represents a continuation of Mac Love’s Umbrella series of paintings. The Umbrella series began in 1999 as a thesis exploration of subjective interpretation, self-illumination, existential and absolute meaning. Love created the hypothetical world of Ible Invi to house and explore these concepts across a range of paintings, sculptures, installations, and performances.

Last Sunday depicts a flooded dream-like cityscape, bleached in light and darkness, with an apocalyptic column of fire rising up in the distance. Umbrellas float with playful physical defiance in the flooded streets.

Last Sunday was part of Mac Love’s Master of Fine Art thesis exhibition at The Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, in 2005. It was later displayed at The Outhouse, a restaurant and nightclub in the City Center. Its current location is unknown.

Last Sunday also makes an appearance in Mac Love’s follow-up painting The Library (Last Sunday), which was rescued following Love’s deportation from Scotland.

Daisy (Umbrella)

Daisy (Umbrella) is an oil painting Mac created in 2001, following the attack on the World Trade Center and as a reflection on human nature. An early inspiration of his was the Belgian surrealist artist, Rene Magritte. Mac has always been enamored with the language of symbolism expressed across his work.

Daisy (Umbrella) came to Mac in a dream and provoked thoughts of fear and security (real and imagined), and the tools and artifices we use to travel and go outside, both physically, spiritually, and intellectually.

The painting is named “Daisy” after his great-aunt’s personal assistant and caretaker in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Daisy was an extremely strong, beautiful, and compassionate Caribbean woman with a great sense of humor and booming laugh that seemed to be directed at existence itself.

“This painting is a lifeline, not just for American audiences, but to the better nature of all people.” – Mac Love

Democracy (Umbrella)

Democracy (Umbrella) was created by Mac Love in 2000 and is one of the first paintings from the Umbrella Series. To Love, the painting is “a reflection on [his] experience growing up as an American abroad.”

Democracy (Umbrella) depicts a glass half full/empty atop an umbrella, pouring parallel but asymmetric streams of water into a pool of power.