"Dancing Pair" Maggi McCormick 2025

MING's Studio Space Artist in Residence
MAGGI McCORMICK
December 16, 2025 - January 26, 2026 

OPEN STUDIO  Saturday, January 10, 12-3PM
ARTIST TALK  Friday, January 23, 7PM
OPEN STUDIO  Saturday, January 24, 12-3PM

MING Studios welcomes artist-in-residence Maggi McCormick, December 16, 2025 – January 26, 2026, as part of the Studio Space Residency for Local Artists. A multi-disciplinary painter and mixed-media artist, McCormick creates an evolving cosmology centered on his imagined extraterrestrial society known as HOMOS, beings shaped by gay history, symbolic reclamation, and the undercurrents of pop culture.

“As I have worked on HOMOS, they have both strayed from their origins and reaffirmed them. They are inextricably linked to gay liberation, and they will always carry that in their DNA. But they also are and are not a million other things. They are punk, they are men, they are women, they are extra-terrestrials, they are psychonauts, they are lovers, they are cloaca-having-egg-layers, and above all, they are art.” - Maggi McCormick

During his residency at MING, McCormick will develop a new body of work exploring the origins of HOMOS through oil painting, watercolor, and mixed-media work. This project expands on the narrative universe of speculative fiction he continues to cultivate.

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