Scott McFarland

Victoria & Albert Museum presents Energy: Sparks from the Collection, with work by Scott McFarland

The Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK) presents the group exhibition, ‘Energy: Sparks from the collection, on view Thursday, 25 May 2023 – Tuesday, 14 May 2024. Included from the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection is Scott McFarland’s Torn Quilt with Effects of Sunlight.  The instability of colour and shadow in this image of a patchwork …

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Royal Bank of Canada Presents Scott McFarland at Photo London

The Royal Bank of Canada, Principal Partner of Photo London presents Scott McFarland’s Sugar Shack, Caledon, Ontario, at the fair this year. Part of RBC’s collection, Sugar Shack, Caledon, Ontario, travels from RBC’s New York office to London, exhibited in the Photo London lounge hub at Somerset House.  Sugar Shack, Caledon, Ontario (2009), a cinematic nocturnal scene, …

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Scott McFarland, Artforum

Toronto-based artist Scott McFarland doesn’t represent reality—he cultivates it. He is best known for creating dense composite landscapes—often gardens—that conflate the temporal and spatial coordinates of the not-quite-natural world. McFarland’s images hinge on artificiality—or at least assemblage—as do the photographs of Jeff Wall, for whom he worked as an assistant. And like many post-Conceptualist artists …

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Review: Scott McFarland’s vaguely surreal concoctions a cause for wonder

In his latest exhibition at Regen Projects, Canadian artist Scott McFarland pulls back the curtain — if only a little bit — on his digitally manipulated, always slightly surreal photographs. Whereas earlier works seamlessly combined elements from multiple exposures in a single weirdly realistic image, this show pairs separate shots of the same places, inviting …

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e-flux: Survey of Work by Renowned Photographer Scott McFarland

The Vancouver Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of work by Scott McFarland, the renowned Canadian photographer whose images challenge the fundamental idea of what a photograph can be. On view from October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010, the exhibition, Scott McFarland, is comprised of more than 60 rigorously composed large-scale photos produced over …

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Scott McFarland, Regen Projects, May 23 – July 3, 2009

Scott McFarland’s photography reconsiders the traditional concept of a photograph as the depiction of a single captured moment in time. Through digital means he is able to manipulate composition, color, light, space, shape, and form. McFarland’s photographs combine multiple negatives to represent simultaneous temporalities and interweave selected elements into a cohesive whole. Several different moments …

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CAG: Scott McFarland, Coastal Cabin

Scott McFarland is a photographer whose images are highlighted by meticulous staging and high-production values. McFarland documents a discrete range of subjects in ongoing suites, and his close attention to the minutia of his subjects allows for an empathetic yet critical viewpoint. The exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery concentrated on one of these projects: …

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