Inside the Studio

Clay Mahn in Residency at MacArthur Place

An aerial image of Clay Mahn's studio table covered in drawings of American barn quilt patterns.
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Completed during his Uprise Art x MacArthur Place Residency, Clay Mahn reimagined the iconic geometries of the American barn quilt as a patterned language that transforms modernist abstraction into something deeply lived, shared, and rooted in memory and identity.

Clay Mahn sitting at a table outside applying paint to a canvas with a putty knife.
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An aerial image of Clay Mahn standing over his studio table and sanding a canvas.
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Clay Mahn hanging a white abstract painting of black dots on the wall.
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Clay Mahn standing in a field sketching.
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Clay Mahn reaching out and touching a white rose bush.
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Image of Clay Mahn's hands sanding a canvas on a table.
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Clay Mahn holds up two abstract paintings in the studio at MacArthur Place. Photo by Emma K Creative.
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Clay Mahn standing in his studio leaning on a table covered with art supplies.
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