Scott McFarland

Bio

• Born in 1975 in Canada
• Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1997 from the University of British Columbia
• The artist lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
  
• Recent exhibitions include: 2008 New Works, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 2008
  Garden of Eden, Statdtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany;  2007
  Works on Paper; Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Union Gallery, London, England;  2005 Another Photography, Regan Projects, Los Angeles Analyzing Trapping Inspecting, Union Gallery, London, England;  2004 Gardens, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/Toronto, Canada

About the work

• "Scott McFarland's vision has evolved out of a familiarity with the particular environments he photographs. To date he has created several bodies of work exploring such traditional regional subjects as gardens and their maintenance, a friend's cabin and boathouse, as well as the space of photography itself, the darkroom. Regardless of the subject matter, a personal consideration is present in which the artist attempts to reconcile a 'true' notion of the real with the limited one which is captured by the camera lens. McFarland's photographs, which employ subtle digital alteration, return the image as much as possible to its orginal appearance seen by the eye. This alteration includes both exposure and accurate colour correction."
• "McFarland's work thus represents iconic ideas about the local, linking them to the history of photography while using technology as a new way of representation, as a means of accessing the purity of our original experience. Often exhibited as large colour photographs, they have also appeared in magazine works as well as book projects."
  

Scott McFarland

Monte Clark Gallery

Interview