上大美院99创意中心
诚邀阁下出席
布莱恩·马克法兰作品展
策展顾问：埃德蒙·巴利·盖瑟
开幕酒会：11.26（星期五）下午3：30—6点
2010.11.26—2010.12.19
上海大学美术学院99创意中心
上海市莫干山路50号6号楼1F
99 Art Center, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University
request the pleasure of your company at the
A Journey to Shanghai: Paintings by Bryan McFarlane
Curator Consultant: Edmund Barry Gaither
Opening Reception: 3:30-6:00pm, Nov 26th, Friday, 2010
Nov.26th, 2010-Dec.19th, 2010
99Art Center, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University
Floor 1, Bldg, 6, No. 50 Moganshan Rd
我们非常荣幸邀请布莱恩·马克法兰先生在上海大学美术学院99创意中心举办他的个展。这也是布莱恩先生首次在上海举办个展。布莱恩先生出生于牙买加，现任教于美国马萨诸塞大学，是国际上出色的当代抽象艺术家之一，他也曾在美国、欧洲、拉丁美洲等地的大学和博物馆举办展览和讲座。
布莱恩的作品通常以后殖民主义的环境为背景，形成了一种抽象的、充满神秘感的绘画风格。他对中国很感兴趣，在中国的经历不仅为他的创作提供了强大的灵感和暗示，发展了新的创作主题。本次以“自行车、蛋”为主题的展览是近期他在北京创作的作品。在作者看来，“蛋”和“自行车”作为一个象征，有许多含义。它既代表着对新生命的希望，但也象征着发展和逃离。布莱恩以他独特的视角，让我们重新思考在后殖民主义语境下人对事物的体验与思考。
马琳
上大美院99创意中心艺术总监
We are honored to have Mr. Bryan McFarlane’s solo exhibition at the 99 Art Center, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University. This is his first time showing at our venue in Shanghai and his initial solo exhibition in this City’s Moganshan Arts District. Mr. Bryan McFarlane was born in Jamaica and is now a professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is lauded by many critics as one of the paramount contemporary abstract artist working in Jamaica, China, the USA and exhibiting internationally. Professor McFarlane has also exhibited and lectured at numerous universities and museums throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mr. Bryan McFarlane’s work emerges from a post-colonial- cultural background, which shapes his abstract work， full of mystery and a unique painting style. His deep interest in East Asia and his recent and profound experience in China gives him powerful inspiration and a formal language which allows much depth and positive implications for his current work，and also future themes he will no doubt develop. His current theme is exquisitely executed and though new, promises a full and substantial direction as seen in his ----“Egg and Bicycle” Series. These pieces on display are all but recently created in Beijing. From the artist’s view, the egg and bicycle together as a symbol has several meanings. They are both symbols of renewed life and development，but also represent what is broken and inescapable. Professor Bryan McFarlane allows us to rethink beneath the surface of human experience under the circumstance of our past with a perspective on post-colonial identities in our contemporary world.
Ma Lin
Art Director
99 Art Center, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University
布莱恩·马克法兰是一位著名的当代艺术家，他娴熟地将各种视觉策略，充满个人和集体符号的图解，运用到全新的意义系统中。他的作品来自后殖民地时期牙买加艺术家的成长经历，同时又被他对民间智慧和评论理论贪婪的学习，他的旅行和对不同文化，智慧，经济，政治环境的探索影响和拓展。当他对他的经历有所领悟时，他将这些领悟表现到艺术之中，并赋予它们世界性的，国际性的特质。他的感情、智慧，和他的努力，已经让他能够将能量和清晰带到作品中，为他在视觉艺术家国际排名中赢得一席荣誉之地。
埃德蒙·巴利·盖瑟（Edmund Barry Gaither）
波士顿非裔美人美术馆馆长，美国波士顿
波士顿美术馆副馆长
Bryan McFarlane, using a combination of visual strategies accompanied by an evolving iconography that combines personal and collective symbols into a fresh system of meaning, is a contemporary artist of note. His work is grounded in his formative experience as a postcolonial Jamaican artist, but it is informed and broadened by his rapacious consumption of ideas raging from folk wisdom to critical theory, and by political environments. As he has digested his expanding experiences, he has reflected them in his art, giving it a cosmopolitan, international quality. His own sensibilities and talents, combined with hard work, have allowed him to bring both power and clarity to his work earning for him a place of merit in the international order of visual artists.
Edmund Barry Gaither
Director of The Museum of The National Center Of African Artists, Boston
Adjunct Curator: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
很明显，布莱恩·马克法兰是21世纪抽象派画家中的一位。他的作品中充满了神秘的变形的碟片，扇形的弧线，还有一些难以琢磨的形状，这些形状从某个角度看，能够联合成自行车配件（车轮，车把，座椅）或者联合成蛋。我们也可以在他的作品中找到桌子，椅子，花朵，手推车，比赛程序单，甚至照明器材。它们都存在于，甚至漂浮于各种空间里，在这里牛顿定律不起任何作用。这些空间广阔，不透明，液体的，能够在特里·温特斯的“多向联想思维”中找到对应物。这种“多向联合思维中各种模式令作品的可读性变得复杂，指读法阅读也被牵连。”这让马克法兰流畅的穿越抽象和写实的世界，并通过抽象风格表现个人的和文化的注脚。
洛维利·斯托克斯·希姆斯（Lowery Stokes Sims）
纽约艺术与设计博物馆，馆长
（前纽约现代艺术博物馆（MOMA）馆长）
Bryan McFarlane is clearly a cohort in this 21st century abstraction. His canvases populated with mysterious amebic disks and, fanned arcs, and elusive shapes that in some stances coalesce into references to bicycle part (wheels, handle bars, seats) or eggs. We can also find tables, ladders, floral flourishes, carts, race card and even lighting fixture. These all exit and even float in variable space where no Newtonian laws function. These space are vast, opaque and [liquid] and find their counterpart particularly in Terry Winter’s “multidirectional thought” where “patterns…complicate legibility where figural readings, are implicated.” This allows McFarlane to seamlessly travel the worlds of abstraction and figuration and to convey the “multidirectional thought” aspects of his personal and cultural references within this mode of abstraction.
Lowery Stokes Sims
Curator, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
(Former Curator at MOMA, NYC.)
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