Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW LandEscape meets Brian McPartlon Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Since his first exhibition, as a teen, at the Oak Room Gallery in 1965 in Schenectady, New York, Brian McPartlon has honed his skills with acrylics, watercolor, oils, pastels and mixed media sculpture. In 1973, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1975, he founded and directed the 63 Bluxome Street Gallery in San Francisco, California. McPartlon's technique seeks to present true depth of field through layers of shapes and colors. His process includes staining, pouring and spraying, and a diverse set of brushes from a traditional 6” house painting brush to palm fronds, cacti, animal bone fragments and his fingers. A single painting may take him ten minutes or over 40 years to complete. The large bold canvases can be ominous, antagonizing, invigorating and breathtaking. The range of colors and depth of each of McPartlon’s works evoke powerful reactions from viewers. Observers of his works struggle to not touch the textures or crawl into the portals that exist in the layers of his paintings. @brianmcpartlonstudio An interview by Josh Ryder, curator Sculpture and Painting, and you studied at the and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator School of Visual Arts in New York and the San [email protected] Francisco Art Institute: how do these formative experiences influence your evolution as an Hello Brian and welcome toLandEscape. artist? Moreover, how does yourcultural Before starting to elaborate about your artistic substratum address the direction of your production, we would like to invite our current artistic research? readers to visit https://www.brianmcpartlonstudio.comin Brian McPartlon: Two teachers formed the order to get a wide idea about your artistic foundation of my approach to my creative production. We would start this interview with endeavors. At the School of Visual Arts in New a couple of questions about your background. York, my drawing teacher was noted Pop and You have a solid formal training in Drawing, Abstract Expressionist artist Marjorie Strider