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If I Was Would

$2,000.00

Mac Premo
If I Was Would, 2025
Mixed media assemblage
16.25 × 11.75 × 2 in

The Artwork

If I Was Would foregrounds the character of wood through an arrangement of light, medium, and dark tones. A section of light gray introduces a quiet contrast, while visible screw holes punctuate the surface. Rather than concealing the material’s irregularities, the composition allows these details to become part of its visual vocabulary.

The work’s emphasis rests on the relationships between its wooden sections: shifts in tone, the meeting of edges, and the contrast between exposed and colored surfaces. The screw holes introduce traces of fastening and construction, giving the assemblage a sense of material history without prescribing a specific narrative. A solid, carefully handcrafted frame contains the arrangement, extending its attention to structure and fabrication.

The title introduces a playful verbal ambiguity, with “would” also suggesting its material counterpart, “wood.” This interplay between language and substance complements Premo’s broader practice of making sculptural and collage works from collected objects. In If I Was Would, the pared-back palette directs attention to the material itself—its variations, interruptions, and capacity to become something newly composed.theinvisibledog

Specifications & Details

Artist: Mac Premo
Title: If I Was Would
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media assemblage
Dimensions: 16.25 × 11.75 × 2 in (41.28 × 29.84 × 5.08 cm)
Style: Contemporary assemblage, sculptural collage
Presentation: Handcrafted frame

Mac Premo
If I Was Would, 2025
Mixed media assemblage
16.25 × 11.75 × 2 in

The Artwork

If I Was Would foregrounds the character of wood through an arrangement of light, medium, and dark tones. A section of light gray introduces a quiet contrast, while visible screw holes punctuate the surface. Rather than concealing the material’s irregularities, the composition allows these details to become part of its visual vocabulary.

The work’s emphasis rests on the relationships between its wooden sections: shifts in tone, the meeting of edges, and the contrast between exposed and colored surfaces. The screw holes introduce traces of fastening and construction, giving the assemblage a sense of material history without prescribing a specific narrative. A solid, carefully handcrafted frame contains the arrangement, extending its attention to structure and fabrication.

The title introduces a playful verbal ambiguity, with “would” also suggesting its material counterpart, “wood.” This interplay between language and substance complements Premo’s broader practice of making sculptural and collage works from collected objects. In If I Was Would, the pared-back palette directs attention to the material itself—its variations, interruptions, and capacity to become something newly composed.theinvisibledog

Specifications & Details

Artist: Mac Premo
Title: If I Was Would
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media assemblage
Dimensions: 16.25 × 11.75 × 2 in (41.28 × 29.84 × 5.08 cm)
Style: Contemporary assemblage, sculptural collage
Presentation: Handcrafted frame

Biography

Mac Premo is a Brooklyn-based American artist known for mixed-media assemblage, sculptural collage, and installation. Using collected materials and found objects, Premo constructs works that shift ordinary things from utility into metaphor. Wood, imagery, text, hardware, and unexpected fragments become vehicles for humor, memory, visual rhythm, and narrative possibility.

Premo’s works occupy a space between abstraction and storytelling. Their precise, often playful constructions recall imaginary tools, incomplete machines, diagrammatic systems, and architectural models—yet they remain deeply human, shaped by the histories and emotional residue of their materials.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Premo has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, the Ringling Museum, the New Museum, and The Invisible Dog Art Center.

“I am fascinated by the stories behind objects and by the way meaning shifts when something is removed from its original purpose and placed into a new context. My work is about that transformation—how found materials, memory, and structure can come together to create something unexpectedly resonant.”

– Mac Premo