SEAN McFARLAND, Glass Mountains, Exhibit Opening November 7, 2013

Visit Glass Mountains, an exhibition of new work by Sean McFarland, at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, opening reception Thursday, November 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm (49 Geary St., 3^rd Fl., San Francisco).

While the title references a specific place—Glass Mountain in California’s Inyo National Forest, where several of the images were made—it also conjures a mythological space, in a poetic overture that references dichotomies of endurance and ephemerality, transparency and mystery, truth and belief.

Sean McFarland earned his MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2004.  He has exhibited nationally, internationally, and locally at Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum, White Columns, New York, NY, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Camerawork, Headlands Center for the Arts, The San Jose Museum of Art, Galeria de la Raza, and Jack Hanley Gallery. He has received the Phelan Art Award in Photography from the San Francisco Foundation in 2005, a Fellowship from the National Photography Institute at Columbia University, Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer in 2009, John Guttmann Photography Fellowship in 2009, and a Eureka Fellowship in 2011. His work is the collections at SFMOMA, Milwaukee Art Museum, Oakland Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art Library, Humboldt State University, and UC Davis. Sean currently lives in San Francisco and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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