Acrylic on Canvas

Brian McPartlon attended New York’s School of Visual Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. He was involved with San Francisco 1970s South of Market art scene as gallery director of 63 Bluxome. He has a successful roofing business in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibitions (recent/upcoming): International Art Museum of America, San Francisco: Kenosha Public Museum, WI; Sahara West Library, Las Vegas; Pie Projects, Santa Fe; and CINQ Gallery, Dallas. Press: ART UP MI; LandEscape Art Review; Magazine 43; MVIBE; Modern Renaissance; Southwest Contemporary; Another Chicago Magazine; NM Bar Bulletin cover; Blue Mesa Review; and Santa Fe New Mexican.

Formation

This series documents the beginnings of the earth. The work started with the painting titled ”BEGINNINGS.” The genesis of the series emerged when I began to look at photos from the Hubble telescope as a reference to the beginnings of planet formation. It became clear to me that our own planet is just a place in time, and will come and go. The thought of “saving the planet” is therefore an abstract consideration – Earth will endure for an immeasurable time, with or without mankind’s presence, and the existence of the planet as we know it will one day be over. It will then regress back into its beginnings. As a result of my reaction to the images presented in these paintings, I have become more aware of man’s role in shortening his time on Earth. I’d like these paintings to remind the viewer of the geological history of our time on Earth and to question why as a species we are actively hastening the process of our extinction through the destruction of our atmosphere.