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sentation of his work, he is drawing an unusually large number of art lovers and collectors from throughout the United States to the small gallery.
This much-awaited collection of drawings, paintings, and sculpture exhibits a common thread that MacNelly calls “American” and which ranges in subject and material from George Bush to bronze boots and barbed wire.
.As far as describing his art, MacNelly says he’ll leave that up to others.
“I don’t sit around trying to figure out why I’m making a horse or anything. I just do it until it’s done.
“It’s like a joke,” he adds. “Explaining it isn’t going make it funny.”
In his studio MacNelly stands next to a horse sculpture in progress, pulling a small segment of rusty wire like so much taffy through the barbed leg. He twists an end to form what horse aficionados would call the gaskin, then clips it clean with electrician’s pliers.
“I was clearing the wire out of some fields,” he explains. “I just wound it up in hoops and left it in the garage. That was before I had any idea what I’d do with it.”
The first thing he did with it was make a cowboy hat. Life size. And being that MacNelly himself is rather larger-than-life-size, the hat has weight, so to speak. More barbed wire sculptures emerged — a vulture, biplane war-decorated “Marshall Gulag,” and the horse, all of which will be on display at Middle St. Gallery.
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