NADA Miami 2023

River Man is a sculpture that functions as a working fountain. The sculpture depicts a naked man in contrapposto pose simultaneously drinking a beer and peeing. The work describes the memory of carefree parties in the 1960’s on the banks of the Mississippi River where one of McIntire’s friends especially liked to take his clothes off and perform his “human fountain” method. This depiction of eternal consumption and expulsion is both comical and melancholic. It also depicts a time and place before the counterculture was fully co-opted by the corporate hegemony.