Wheatland
Jacob Mason-Macklin
Beneath oxidized skies
Ash complexioned highways
Cast aside
Treaded stacks of worn wheels
Who, in the night
Burn, smolder, n’ rust
Plumes of exhaust
Straddle street lights
Covering orange;
Seeking, stranded silhouettes
Who, in the night
Yearn, hunger, n’ lust
A hopper overpass
Baits the path
Toward Wheatland
A tiger’s eye siren beckons
Who, in the night
Pine under fallen coal dust
— Jacob Mason-Macklin
A special thank you to Hannah and Devin
About Jacob Mason-Macklin
Jacob Mason-Macklin is an artist born in Columbus, OH, currently living in Queens, New York. Mason-Macklin graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He is a 2016 alumnus of the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art and a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2021–2022, Mason-Macklin was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Recent Exhibitions:
- Underground at Mamoth Gallery, London, UK (2023)
- The Future Won't Be Long Now at SOMEDAY, Lower Manhattan, New York (2023)
- It’s Time For Me To Go at MOMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2022–2023)
- Duo exhibition with Ryan Huggins at Page Gallery, New York (2021)
- Soul Procession at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York (2020)
- Pure Hell at No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (2020)
- Bounty with Cudelice Brazelton at Jeffrey Stark Gallery, New York, curated by Amanda Hunt (2017).