Tomorrow's Conversations (02) - Tim McFarlane (NEW)
Tomorrow's Conversations, Tim McFarlane

Tomorrow's Conversations

Artist

Tim McFarlane

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

Medium

Color Wood-Cut

Date

2020

Dimensions

30 x 22 inches

Edition Size

34 (Variable Edition) prints in this edition

Printer

Alexis Nutini

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Location

Philadelphia, PA

About the Work

From the Artist

Tomorrow's Conversations grew out of a desire to expand my painting practice using the glyph imagery that I have developed over time. The glyphs were the result of being interested in using text in my paintings but not wanting viewers reading the paintings. I wanted them to function as a form of communication, but not having inherent meanings, like asemic writing. The glyphs function partly as a formal pictorial device while alluding to communication but retain a bit of mystery as to meaning. The viewer is left to ponder possible meanings. This series takes a finite number of drawings turned to woodblock plates and pushes the number of variations that could be made with color and formal compositions.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
Tim McFarlane's Tomorrow's Conversations series explores the fluid inconsistencies of memory and time in which manufactured environments impact changes in human communication. His work focuses on the ongoing remaking of public and personal spaces, where graffiti and other evidence of life patterns coexist. Each print in the series of 54 images is distinct yet created from the same set of woodcut plates.
—Halima Taha, from Pigment of the Soul: Visiting Artist Prints, 2019–2021 (2022) exhibition catalog: https://brandywineworkshopandarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pigment-of-the-Soul-catalog.pdf, accessed 4-27-2022
 

About the Artist

Tim McFarlane

Tim McFarlane is a painter based in Philadelphia. He is a 1994 graduate of Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia. McFarlane's paintings and works on paper examine the fluid and contradictory nature of memory and pl...

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