Tim McFarlane, (American, 1964)
Education
1994 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia PA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Upcoming: Fall, 2024 Black Drawings and Other Things You Didn't Know About, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor Township, NJ
2024 All Of This Is True, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Evidence, The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
2021 Walk Sign Is On, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 You Don't Know The Whole Thing (temporary installation), Poggenphohl-Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Transmissions and Echoes, Poggenpohl-Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Counter Currents, Roche Bobois, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Transmissions, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014 New Paintings, Fountain Restaurant-Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Presence, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Right Now, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2009 This Moment, site-specific installation, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Phenomena (works on paper), Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia PA
2007 Stratum, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA
2007 When Is Now, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2005 Logical Progression, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2004 Inverted Dislocation, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2000 Subliminal Shift, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Something Big, Something Small, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Shifing Forms: 5 Decades of Abstraction, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2023 Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, PA
2022-2023 Negotiating Grids, The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Karmic Joy, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020 All Night Party, Center For The Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson MD
2020 Reasonable Nomenclatures of Invisibility, ParisTexas LA, Los Angeles CA
2020 Matter., Gray Contemporary, Houston,TX
2019 Streets Dept Walls, Fashion District Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2019 The Philadelphia Fine Art Fair, Bridgette Mayer Gallery booth, Philadelphia, PA
2019 In Search of the Colored Girl, The Colored Girl's Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Small Works 2018, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 I Made Some Poems That You Can See (installation), Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Spaces Worth Feeling, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018 International Variety, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017 SEE-THROUGH, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Forms of Resistance (two-person show with Miguwl Rodriguez), ArtSpace 1241, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Fiction (With Only Light Between Us), curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones, traveling exhibition-Ohio, Germany, London
2015 Summer Group Show, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Philadelphia Freedom, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis MO
2014/15 December Group Exhibition, Gray Contemporary, Houston TX
2014 Three-person exhibition, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX
2013 A Random Walk, Rowan University, Glassboro NJ
2011 Karmic Abstraction, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Life of the World to Come: Darkness Falls Upon Us, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2008-10 Concurrent, Various Locations
2008 Considerable, University of Dayton, Dayton OH
2008 Philadelphia meets Baltimore: Conceptions and Perceptions, Towson University, Towson MD
2007 Black and White, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2007 Luxe, Calme et Volupté, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta GA
2006 The Red Show, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2005 Engaging The Structural, Broadway Gallery, New York NY
2004-08 Bridgette Mayer Gallery Group Show, Tierney Communications, Philadelphia PA
2004 Art Of The State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA
2004/08 Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA
2004 62nd Annual Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham PA
2003 Hard Pressed, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA
2003 Group Exhibition, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2002 Summer Group Exhibition, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2001 Fleisher Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA
2001 1 59th Annual Award Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham PA
2001 138th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia PA
2000 Organic, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA
Projects
2021 Interior mural, Coscial Moos Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Bound Together (public mural), 10th and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia, PA
2020 Untitled wall drawing, Response Gallery, DEContemporary, Wilmington, DE
2019 Tiny Room For Elephants Festival, Ode (TRFE 19), temporary mural, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Streets Dept. Walls, GFDP (Variant Shift), temporary mural, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Comcast Tech Center, Transmission (CTC), mural, Philadelphia, PA
Awards/Residencies
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Westtown School, West Chester, PA
2001 Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Grant recipient, Philadelphia PA
Professional Experience
2020 Visiting Artist (remote), Campbell Elementary School, Arlington, VA
2017-2018 Adjunct Professor, Advanced Painting, Tyler School of Art
2014/2015 External Thesis Advisor for senior students at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia PA
2010 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2009 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2003/2005/2014 Guest Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
2022 Shifting Time: African American Artists 2020-2021, edited by Klare Scarborough & Berrisford Boothe
2001, 2003, 2011 New American Paintings: Northeast Edition
Selected Collections:
The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ
Temple University, Pearson-McGonigle Athletic Complex, Philadelphia, PA
The Fox School of Business at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
The Hyatt Hotel at the Bellevue, Philadelphia, PA
Representation
Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Works Available
Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO