Bryan McFarlane: Like the Weather

On View: May 31 – July 13, 2018
Reception: Thursday, May 31, 5 – 7pm

“I have sought to create a series of large paintings: images which characterize the subtle and yet overwhelming changes that we experience through weather patterns, sonar sensations, as well as the dramatic change that we internalize and which now occurs often in our weather systems. These patterns or behavior in nature are directly attributed to climate change, caught almost as ‘film stills’ with geometric or horizontal contours when broken down to the viscosity of brushstrokes, paint gestures and the magic of color synchronizations, synonymous with sound. Hence, waves of color are expressed in my paintings to move us horizontally or vertically, harmonizing our deepest emotions, embraced with sounds, crying out from the sea, while we bask in inescapable rapture, experienced through the dark and light--delivered by ‘the weather’.” - Bryan McFarlane

Passage

2016, oil on linen, 63×63”

Like the Weather at Night

2015, oil on linen, 63×75”
SOLD

Rain in Beijing

2015, oil on linen, 60×60”

Like the Weather

2016, oil on linen, 99×138”
SOLD

Bryan McFarlane

Jamaican-born Bryan McFarlane’s career, although based in Boston, continues to expand internationally. In 2016 McFarlane was part of an exhibition, Latin America and Caribbean Visual Art Exhibition, at the Beijing World Art Museum, and in 2017 he was included in the Jamaica Biennial at the National Gallery of Jamaica.

In 2008 solo shows of his paintings were mounted in Berlin and in Beijing, and he was among artists representing twenty-five countries in Beijing’s 2008 Olympics exhibition. In 2012, McFarlane was awarded the Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica in recognition of his achievement in art.