Bryan McFarlane: Stories in the Clouds

On View: April 2 – 25, 2015
Reception: Friday, April 2, 6 – 8pm

Bryan McFarlane’s past work depicted abstract shapes in whirling spaces. The newest paintings suspend forms and free-floating images in grounded space that is more suggestive of a landscape. McFarlane commented, “Space is an endless phenomenon laid bare to be studied for an artist or scientist or even the psychologist or psychoanalyst. Still, Space is a big mystery to me. When one takes a rectangular picture plain to compose or 'create space,’ it must encompass the universe, however minute. Landscape does that for me right now as space above and below us is endless, governed largely by ocean, land and sky. All my depicted pictorial elements are meant to float in the paintings I am trying to create.” - Bryan McFarlane

Inside the Calm

2013, oil on linen, 60×48”
SOLD

Rock Clouds

2014, oil on linen, 19×19”

Floating Whale

2014, oil on linen, 20×20”
SOLD

Clouds for Bread

2014, oil on linen, 20x20"
SOLD

Cloud With Light

2015, oil on linen, 24x24"

Lucky Cloud

2015, oil on linen, 62x56"

Untitled

2014, oil on linen, 19.5x19.5"

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.