Chanciness

McKay paints Western landscapes drawn from extended backcountry travels and on-location studies across Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. His working method combines preliminary field paintings with studio refinement, building expressive compositions through layered light and shadow. A West Point graduate and former combat veteran who later studied at the Art Students League of New York, McKay approaches landscape painting with technical rigor developed under renowned artists. He now works full-time from Declo, Idaho, where he apprentices with established painter Robert Moore.

Roach works across sound, video, installation, and object-making, developing work that responds fluidly to available materials and collaborators—glass blowers, coders, scientists, percussionists, poets. His practice investigates how materials, objects, and sensory experience filter through human perception. He studied English at Rutgers University and earned an MFA in Painting from Hunter College. Recent work includes a residency at Zion National Park, where he became the first sound artist selected for the program, alongside domestic and international exhibitions.