Bryan McFarlane: My Dragon’s Silk Road

On View: September 4 - 29, 2012
Reception: Friday, September 4, 6 – 8pm

“Working in Beijing, looking at the nature of the society, looking at human values and materialism, with so much stuff and so many people. I’m working from more of an emotional and intuitive source rooted in real experience of places I’ve been – Beijing, Africa, the Caribbean, the United States. I’m working with all of those contradictory situations that are simultaneously taking place, trying to distill them into some sort of emotion that can become abstract. I’m not trying to narrate any kind of specific message, moral or immoral. I’m just reflecting something of materialism in our age.” - Bryan McFarlane

Environment without Traction

2009, oil on linen, 60x60”

Environment without Traction II

2010, oil on linen, 60×60”

Internal Anatomy II

2010, oil on linen, dimension, 60x48”

Kisses for Elephants

2011, oil on linen, 47x39”
SOLD

The Birth of Joseph

2012, oil on linen, 48×48”
SOLD

Coo Coo Eyes

2012, oil on linen, 12x12”

Inside the Heart of Apple

2012, oil on linen, 60x48”

Two Wishbones

2011, oil on linen, 47x39”

Smile Back, Serious

2011, oil on linen, 47x39”

Towards Traction

2010, oil on linen, 60x48”
SOLD

untitled

2012, oil on linen, 10×10”

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.