Quite possibly one of my greatest inspirations right now. Scott McFarland is back with another show show at Regen Projects in LA. I was absolutely floored by the last show, his prints are huge and tirelessly full of digitized detail. Check him out online and meet me there if you can! Opening weeking is May 23rd till July 3rd … I may not make it to the opening (should be climbing in J-tree) but I’ll surely go later in the week.
Review snippet from 2007’s exhibition:
“This aura of distension runs throughout McFarland’s second solo exhibition at Regen Projects. Yet it is an affect produced not by the camera’s chance snapshot but by deliberate digital depiction. McFarland doesn’t hide the fact that his images are digital fabrications, and his aesthetic enhances the premeditated manner of his compositions. McFarland’s subjects – public parks, botanical gardens, zoos – further emphasize the young photographer’s interest in creating a sense of unease with the artificiality of digital imagery. His photographs depict the world as arbitrarily structured around empirical categorization.”
