Apr
10
to May 2
Sep
20
1:00 PM13:00
Book Signing - STUDIO NOTES: My time with Cy
SlowExposures 2025 Photo Book Fair
Signing copies of the trade and collector’s editions of STUDIO NOTES: My Time with Cy.
Photographs by Rob McDonald
Text by Sam Stephenson
Essay by Thierry Greub, University of Cologne
24,5 x 18,5 cm, 88 pages
67 illustrations, black and white
Softcover with flaps
Verlag Walther König, Köln
ISBN 978-3-7533-0711-4
Oct
26
12:30 PM12:30
Pre-publication Signing: STUDIO NOTES: My Time with Cy
STUDIO NOTES: Photographs from My Time with Cy
A pre-publication release/signing for the new book, STUDIO NOTES: My Time with Cy (Walther König Verlag, 2024).
Concluding the conference
CY TWOMBLY: “White Zones”
University of Cologne
October 24-26, 2024
Contact Professor Thierry Greub, University of Cologne (tgreub@uni-koeln.de)
Oct
25
4:30 PM16:30
STUDIO NOTES: Photographs from My Time with Cy
STUDIO NOTES: Photographs from My Time with Cy
A pre-publication talk featuring images from the new book, STUDIO NOTES: My Time with Cy (Walther König Verlag, 2024).
For the conference
CY TWOMBLY: “White Zones”
University of Cologne
October 24-26, 2024
Contact Professor Thierry Greub, University of Cologne (tgreub@uni-koeln.de)
Sep
19
to Sep 22
Human, Error: Photographs of a Changing Southern Landscape
Photographs by Erik Mace, Rob McDonald, and Anna Gage Norton
An exhibition exploring the ways in which the dual impacts of climate change and human behavior are increasingly altering the contours of our world, particularly in the US South..
Based on a panel of photographic essays first presented at the Southern Humanities Conference, Savannah, Georgia, in February 2024.
Sep
19
to Sep 22
Feb
2
2:15 PM14:15
Human, Error: Photographic Essays on a Changing World
Rob McDonald, “Clear Cut”
Erik Mace, “Vestiges”
Anna Gage Norton, “On Nochaway”
A panel presentation featuring Rob McDonald, Erik Mace, and Anna Gage Norton at the Southern Humanities Conference.
This session features three photographic essays that consider the effects of climate change and/or human activity over time in the physical world. The presenters explore the ways in which the dual impacts of climate change and human behavior are increasingly altering the contours of our world, particularly in the US South. With distinctly different emphases and photographic styles, the presentations are united by their focus on recording, observing, and contemplating changes associated with real and lasting shifts in Southern landscapes, ecosystems, and environments.
Sep
16
1:00 PM13:00
F A N C Y H I L L
Join me for the release of F A N C Y H I L L, celebrating the 20th anniversary of SlowExposures!
May
11
to Aug 18
STUDIO NOTES: My Time with Cy - Photographs by Rob McDonald
For the last twenty years of his life, Cy Twombly returned annually to Lexington, his hometown in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As evidence of his attachment, he bought a house, and during extended visits in both spring and fall, he created a number of important works in modest studios he rented nearby. In large part, however, he spent his days observing the rhythms of the small college town, taking long reflective drives in the countryside, and exploring entertainments with a small circle of acquaintances. One of those was photographer Rob McDonald.
Over the years, McDonald made hundreds of photographs of home and storefront studio in Lexington’s downtown, typically with the artist himself present. There was not much conversation during those times, but when McDonald shared the images with Twombly, he always seemed curious to see what had caught the photographer’s eye.
For this exhibition, McDonald returns to a series of photo-based works begun in the months after Twombly’s death in 2011.
Sep
27
9:00 AM09:00
The Father Box - pop-up exhibit
Selected pieces from THE FATHER BOX will be presented in a pop-up exhibit at the 2019 joint meeting of the Popular and American Culture Associations in the South in Wilmington, NC.
Hotel Ballast
301 N. Water Street
Wilmington, NC
September 27, 2019
From 9:00 - 11:30 a.m., Rob will be present to discuss the project, and books will be available for purchase at a discounted rate.
Hope to see you there!
Sep
19
8:00 PM20:00
The Father Box - a reading by John Lane
John Lane will read selections and discuss The Father Box at the George C. Marshall Museum on the campus of the Virginia Military Institute.
The event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta and VMI’s Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies.
Jan
26
2:00 PM14:00
The Father Box - Reception
Come help us celebrate the release of THE FATHER BOX, my new collaboration with John Lane!
John will give a short reading from the book starting at 3 pm. We’ll both be there to inscribe your copy of this beautiful new book.
While you’re there, be sure to look around at all of the wonderful local art that Dave Wofford has curated in the Horse & Buggy and Friends Gallery space!
Oct
15
to Nov 14
Southern Icons, A to Z
Mark your calendar for the final showing of Southern Icons @ the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.
The exhibit will be a feature of the 2018 Pat Conroy Literary Festival!
Sep
20
to Sep 23
The Father Box
My collaborative project with award-winning writer John Lane, The Father Box, has been selected by John Bennette for a pop-up exhibition at Slow Exposures 2018 in lovely Zebulon, Georgia.
The photographs in this series are hand-finished, and therefore each print is unique. Come see!
During the show, I'll be offering a discount on pre-orders of the book (due later this fall from Horse & Buggy Press).
Sep
10
to Jan 31
HANDMADE IV - Anzenberger Gallery
During a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts a few years back, I made a series of photo-based mixed media pieces called STUDIO.
I couldn't be happier that @reginaanzenberger of @anzenbergergallery has included several pieces from that series in the new HANDMADE IV exhibit in Vienna, up through January 2019.
This work is close to my heart..... www.anzenbergergallery.com/414/rob_mcdonald
Apr
26
7:00 PM19:00
Apr
7
9:00 AM09:00
Southern Icons, A to Z
Panel with Donna King Rosser
College English Association
Hilton Head Island, SC
Sep
17
10:30 PM22:30
Feb
13
5:30 PM17:30
Carolina Writers at Home - exhibition and book-signing
Meryl Truett and Friends Gallery
6 East Liberty Street
Savannah, GA
Dec
12
2:00 PM14:00
Dec
11
7:00 PM19:00
Dec
5
2:00 PM14:00
Dec
4
7:00 PM19:00
Dec
4
5:00 PM17:00
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St, Charleston, SC
Nov
30
11:00 AM11:00
Carolina Writers at Home - readings
Readings by contributors Holly Goddard Jones and Zelda Lockhart.
Turman Room, Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
Open to the public.
Nov
22
4:00 PM16:00
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
M. Judson's Books, 130 S Main St, Greenville, SC
Nov
21
1:00 PM13:00
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
Great Expectations Books, 198 N Main St, Rutherfordton, NC
Nov
20
7:00 PM19:00
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
Hub City Bookshop, 186 W Main St, Spartanburg, SC
Nov
6
6:30 PM18:30
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
City Lights Bookstore, 3 E Jackson St, Sylva, NC
Oct
25
2:00 PM14:00
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
Malaprop's Bookstore, 55 Haywood St, Asheville, NC
Oct
18
2:00 PM14:00
Carolina Writers at Home - book-signing
Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm St, Greensboro, NC