Tim McFarlane
"Another Day, Another Way"

September 18-December 12, 2026

Zillman Art Museum (University of Maine)

40 Harlow St. Bangor, Maine 04401

I'm thrilled to announce my first-ever museum solo exhibition at the Zillman Art Museum in Bangor, Maine. With almost thirty pieces, this exhibition focuses on works made between 2023 and 2026 across two bodies of work: the "Tri-form" paintings featuring multi-layered compositions of interconnected triangular forms and new works on unstretched fabric and canvas.

The "tri-form" paintings are loosely updated versions of ideas from older paintings originally made between 2012-2014. The paintings presented in "ADAW" explore relationships between foreground and background and color in more direct ways than in the earlier works. There is also play with tension between form and painting edge that's more dynamic than previously, where marks often seemed to glide past the painting's edges.

With the newer unstretched fabric and canvas pieces, I'm moving into an area where the work exists somewhere between painting and sculpture. My application of paint leans more into a tactility that's different than my more traditional painting style. Paint is applied in an accumulative way with baking spatulas, leaving geologic like surfaces with hills and valleys where paint builds up and falls back.

I'm interested in having these unstretched works expand on the idea of what a painting is, having them be free of their traditional objectness, while transforming the work's relationship to the wall. These works feature scraped-on layers of paint that resemble geologic topography. Glitter is also included in some of these works as another way to explore color and light. They also relate to an early interest I had in landscape as a younger painter. 

Image: Right There, An Inch Away From Heaven, 2025, acrylic and glitter on fabric with grommets, 51" x 100"

Photo credit: Karen Mauch