Portrait: Danny McDonald

From his early days in the legendary Art Club 2000 to his sculptural assemblages attacking the normalisation of violence, obscenity, and dehumanisation, the New York-based artist Danny McDonald has for over three decades made work that stands against Manhattan’s gentri cation and corporatisation. He creates strange and disturbing scenes of American life, all with a perverse taste for popular culture and horror memorabilia.

"McDonald underlined the crisis of masculinity that ushered in the Trump era, weaving in jokes around maleness and its signifiers."

– This text appears in Spike #63 . You can buy it in our online shop

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