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Liam Mackenzie

Liam Mackenzie is a designer, sculptor, stylist, and art historian. Recognized for his work by Harpers Baazar, ELLE US, Office Magazine etc, Liam has established himself as an avante gard creative, often refrencing art historical periods from Baroque to Cubism. His Wesleyan art history degree continues to inform his visual language.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

WRITING SAMPLES

Remembering the Chelsea: Albert Scopin’s Lost Photography

A critical essay weaving together firsthand reporting, research, and visual analysis to examine Albert Scopin’s images of the Hotel Chelsea visually preserve the pre-AIDS queer culture that once thrived in downtown New York.

The Colonial Gaze and the fetishazation of Asante Women though photography

A close analysis of colonial photographs that demonstrates how photography can and has functioned as both a means of liberation as well as a form of imprisonment that reinforces racial and sexual violence.

Recontextualizing Christian Iconography: Devotional Paintings in the Museum

A comparative study of the Mond Crucifixion and Wilton Diptych that examines how architecture, lighting, ritual, and museum display shape the meaning of artworks.

Reproducing Violence: Mary Turner as a Subject

An interdisciplinary analysis of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s sculpture of Mary Turner that engages competing scholarly perspectives to examine the struggle to represent historical violence without reproducing it.