Tim McFarlane: All Of This Is True
New solo exhibition at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery
I’m very proud to announce my new solo exhibition, All Of This Is True, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia! This is my sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and brings together two bodies of work made over the past couple of years, with most completed in 2023 and 2024. The glyphs that once populated most of my paintings are now part of a more intimate, “quiet” experience in the translucent layers of the small-scaled Soft Poem series. In most of the larger paintings, I’m exploring a different kind of voice in layered fields and forms made up of mostly interconnected triangles deliberately residing and interacting with the boundaries of the painted surfaces.
Thinking more deeply about my studio practices and lived experiences over the past couple of years, one thing stood out about my current interests that seems perfectly encapsulated in a well-known line from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”.
Regardless of what externally assigned group we are a part of, be it by gender, ethnicity, skin color, nationality, etc…, we are more than only those attributes. The same goes for how we are in relationship to others around us and online. We can be sons, fathers, daughters, nephews, students, teachers, lawyers, cooks, writers, managers, being different things to different people. We also can view and experience the world from a variety of view points. To the contrary, in our increasingly online lives, the expression of nuanced conversations and viewpoints are slowly eroding and even affecting our offline lives. I stand firm that we are and will continue to be complicated creatures. We can contradict ourselves, we can learn and evolve in our thinking and we contain multitudes.
All Of This Is True will be on view at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery from April 2-May 18, 2024, with an artist reception and happy hour on Friday, April 5th, from 5pm-7:30pm.
Preview the exhibition here: Tim McFarlane: All Of This Is True
Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 709 Walnut Street, 1st Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
I hope to see you at the opening, and if you can’t, I do hope that you can experience this work in person during the run of the show!
p.s.: This newsletter is published several times a year, but for more frequent transmissions from the studio, check out my studio blog: Tim McFarlane Studio: Life & Art Stirred Vigorously, it too, is a free publication at this time.