Sean McFarland
Instagram: @seanmcfarland_
Website: http://glassmountains.org
Bio: Sean earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BS from Humboldt State University. Exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Visual Studies Workshop; San Francisco Camerawork; White Columns; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; George Eastman Museum; Aperture; Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Milwaukee Museum of Art. Permanent collections include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; National Gallery of Art; George Eastman Museum; City and County of San Francisco; and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Awards include the SECA - SFMOMA, Eureka Fellowship, Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, and the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship. Sean lives in San Francisco and is a Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. He is represented by Casemore Gallery, San Francisco.
Statement: My work examines records of experience, time, landscape, and spirituality. Working from a self-generated archive, I continuously revisit site, image, and object. Materials such as silver gelatin prints, cyanotypes, drawings, desert sage dust, and glass are combined to make photographs, collage, and sculpture. The resulting works are a meditation on place, phenomena, what it means to be present and how we remember.
