Pjuncture is a close facsimile of Kian McKeown’s 2018–2019 sketchbook that gives insight to an artist’s everyday practice of drawing and note-taking. 128 full-color pages present the artist’s hand, realized drawings, sketches, plans and mathematical calculations for sculptures, to-do lists, smudges and impressions. Motifs poke through that can be traced to McKeown’s present practice and continuing interests, visions invoking that which animate a life—moments of tension, serendipity, and awkwardness, sharp bodily pains and perversions, and mysteries under the skin, all rendered and drawn beautifully with piercing honesty.
Kian McKeown (b. 1999, New York, NY) works across drawing, sculpture, collage, and installation made in response to his daily waking fantasies and desires for something more. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2021, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2024, is a current Artist Fellow at the National Arts Club, and a 2026 MFA candidate at Hunter College. He has exhibited at venues including Mama Projects, the NARS Foundation, Fragment Gallery, Giovanni’s Room, and Harkawik.
Published by Figure Bound, 2025 in New York
Edition of 500
Softcover
128 pages
9¹⁄₂ × 6¹⁄₂ inches
