Hap Gallery present Green Illume, New York sculptor Ted McCann’s first west coast show.

Ted McCann leads a quiet life in Brooklyn, New York. He’s a dad, with a job in construction. Over the past ten years, he’s spent much of his free time reading about the lives of people who have chosen a very different path: soldiers. In this body of work, McCann’s obsession with military life—especially its sense of certainty and camaraderie—seeps through his representations of a day-to-day reality as a Volvo-driving, grocery-shopping, kid-schlepping, NPR-listening, mid-life-crisis–approaching guy. Beside a mosaic of flotsam collected at the seashore with his son, hangs a riff on a bulletproof vest. The show’s title, Green Illume, is an army term for full lunar illumination, which makes nighttime operations dangerous. It’s the artist’s admission that the same full moon he romanticizes from his safe city apartment can spell disaster for the soldiers he romanticizes. The path not chosen is easy to idealize, but then again, so is his life, right here.

Ted McCann holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BA from Carnegie Mellon University. He has exhibited his work at CRG gallery, Derek Eller Gallery and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, as well as Galerie Emi Fontana in Milan, Italy, and James Solomon Gallery in East Hampton, New York.