Megan Hinton, in collaboration with Farm Projects, presents: Yokel
An outdoor installation of Portrait Paintings at Wellfleet Preservation Hall
On View Spring and Summer of 2022
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 30, 5-7pm
yo.kel noun
:an inhabitant of a rural area or small town
Yokel is an outdoor art installation on the billboard at Wellfleet Preservation Hall by Megan Hinton. Remnants of painted lumber are arranged as multiple portraits depicting Outer Cape Cod locals. Typically, a pejorative and ethnocentric label, yokel is humorously recontextualized to caricature the folks who live here. They are artists, writers, performers, entrepreneurs, essential workers, eccentrics, activists, leaders, friends, acquaintances, and much more. The play on local yokel’s vernacular is reinforced with black and white gestural cartoon marks on informal surfaces of discarded construction wood. Hinton’s installation conveys a spirited assemblage of our community after an extended time apart during these pandemic years. May the viewer recognize or find themselves reflected in a Yokel hanging out here in assemblage. Work on the billboard will be in progress and added in the Spring of 2022 for full display completion during the Summer Season on Main Street in Wellfleet at Preservation Hall.
Artist Biography
Megan Hinton assembles materials in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography to reassemble personal and public narratives. Their studio work and theoretical interests are rooted in painting’s history, object theory, and contemplative practice. Megan received an MFA from Mills College in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts where they were nominated by the faculty for The Dedalus Foundation Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture and won the Hung Lui MFA Prize.
Hinton’s work is shown at Farm Project Space in Wellfleet and Bakker Gallery in Provincetown and is in the permanent collections of The Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. They are the recent recipient of The Alice C. Cole ’42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College, The Murphy Cadogan Scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation, an artist residency from 20 Summers in Provincetown, and a publication in New American Painting 2022. In tandem with their studio practice Megan Hinton is also a curator, art writer, and educator.
Farm Projects is a contemporary art space and printed matter in Wellfleet, MA.
355 Main Street (down the brick walkway) Wellfleet, MA 02667
For more information contact : Susie Nielsen 617 650 9800 farmprojectspace.org
