Bryan McFarlane: Maroon Mountains

On View: October 3 – November 2, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 3, 5 – 7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 26, 1pm

“My paintings currently use metaphors based on Cockpit Country, or the Blue Mountains of Jamaica where I was born. I play with these shapes formally in my current work, using overlapped abstracted patterns and play of translucency derived from inspirations from that environment.” - Bryan McFarlane

Cockpit Country Entanglement (Jamaica)

2022, oil on linen, 115×82”

Cockpit Country Entanglement and Hope (Jamaica)

2022, oil on linen, 110×82”

Blue Ocean with Sunset

2024, oil on linen, 55×63”

Another Window of Hope

2024, oil on linen, 63×63”

Pleasant Crossroads

2024, oil on linen, 60×60”

Spirit of Four Seasons with Light

2023, oil on linen, 59×70”

The Bright Future Through Our Window

2024, oil on linen, 71×59”

Urban Orange

2024, oil on linen, 71×59”

Portal

2023, oil on linen, 60×48”

untitled

2022, oil on linen, 26×24”

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.