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Mack McFarland

Mack McFarland is a curator and artist living in Portland, Oregon.[1] He is the Director of Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art.[2]

Mack McFarland
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD)
OccupationCurator
MovementTactical Media, Photography

As the curator for PNCA, McFarland has worked with several Tactical media artists, including The Yes Men,[3] Critical Art Ensemble,[4] Brian Holmes[5] and Eva & Franco Mattes.[6] McFarland's other projects with PNCA include solo exhibitions with Luc Tuymans,[7] Wangechi Mutu,[8] Joe Sacco,[9] Cauleen Smith,[10] Sandow Birk,[11] James Rosenquist, David Horvitz,[12] Sue Coe,[13] Thomas Zummer,[14] and many others. His work focuses on issues of class, representation, information environments, and phenomenological perception.[15]

In 2006 McFarland teamed with Dennis Nyback in the Portland Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Time Based Art project the Portland That Was.[16]

References edit

  1. ^ "Pacific Northwest College of Art - Faculty List". www.pnca.edu. PNCA. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  2. ^ "About: Center for Contemporary Art & Culture". ccac.pnca.edu. PNCA. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  3. ^ (staff) (September 4, 2008). "The Yes Men: Keep it Slick". Portland Mercury. Portland Mercury. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  4. ^ John Motley (April 12, 2013). "'Acceptable Losses': Exhibit exposes vet suicide epidemic". www.oregonlive.com. The Oregonian. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  5. ^ Półtorak, Arkadiusz (2018). "You Never Step in the Same River Twice. Quixotic futures of tactical media. Interview with Brian Holmes by Arkadiusz Półtorak". Przegląd Kulturoznawczy. 2 (26): 199–208. doi:10.4467/20843860PK.18.011.9189.
  6. ^ Giulia Rossi, Elena (January 7, 2015). "Eva & Franco Mattes: "Breaking Banality"". www.ArShake.com. ArShake. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  7. ^ Amy Bernstein (June 2, 2014). "Let Them Look: An Interview with Luc Tuymans". www.portlandart.net. PORT. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  8. ^ Kook-Anderson, Grace (March 9, 2016). "Wangechi Mutu and the revolt of the female form". www.orartwatch.org. Oregon Arts Watch. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  9. ^ Libby, Brian (January 24, 2008). "Art Review: Joe Sacco Retrospective at PNCA". www.oregonlive.com. The Oregonian. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  10. ^ Green, Kate. "Cauleen Smith". www.artforum.com. New York, NY: Artforum International Magazine. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  11. ^ Row, D.K. (November 5, 2009). "Interview: Sandow Birk on the Iraq War and beyond". www.oregonlive.com. Portland, Or: The Oregonian. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  12. ^ "David Horvitz Talk". www.youtube.com (Video). PNCA. July 7, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  13. ^ Jenene Nagy (February 25, 2007). "Sue Coe Lecture". www.portlandart.net. Portland Art.net. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  14. ^ Lechner, Jenna (July 27, 2012). "Thomas Zummer at PNCA". www.dailyserving.com. Daily Serving. com. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  15. ^ "KMD".
  16. ^ "The Portland that Was". pica.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
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