Tim McFarlane
@timmcfarlanestudio.bsky.social
Visual Artist | Philadelphia, PA
Paintings, works on paper and assorted miscellany
TimMcFarlane.com
tim@timmcfarlane.com
[studio blog]: https://open.substack.com/pub/timmcfarlanestudio
[monthly email]: https://open.substack.com/pub/tmstudio
Paintings, works on paper and assorted miscellany
TimMcFarlane.com
tim@timmcfarlane.com
[studio blog]: https://open.substack.com/pub/timmcfarlanestudio
[monthly email]: https://open.substack.com/pub/tmstudio
Smart phones make it so easy to be recklessly creative when you can’t fall asleep at night or are up too early in the morning…
In the digital creative mix
The better side of phone tech...
open.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Smart phones make it so easy to be recklessly creative when you can’t fall asleep at night or are up too early in the morning…
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March 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Summer will be here before you know it…
[🎥 :: Tim McFarlane]
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March 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Summer will be here before you know it…
[🎥 :: Tim McFarlane]
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Yes, one of the best ways to combat creative blocks is to make more work.
making makes ideas. #art
March 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Yes, one of the best ways to combat creative blocks is to make more work.
Different year, different tactics, same power grabs by the right. Ministry’s “NWO” (New World Order) from ‘92 remains relevant…
Ministry NWO-MTV 120 MINS
YouTube video by WaxTrax !
youtu.be
March 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Different year, different tactics, same power grabs by the right. Ministry’s “NWO” (New World Order) from ‘92 remains relevant…
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The Binding Problem E1_oil on canvas, 56 x 50 inches, 2025
#stevenbaris #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryabstractpainting #abstractpainting #attention #diagram #geometricabstraction #geometricabstract #thebindingproblem #kunst #kunstwerk #consciousness #pentimentigallery #kathrynmarkelfinearts
#stevenbaris #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryabstractpainting #abstractpainting #attention #diagram #geometricabstraction #geometricabstract #thebindingproblem #kunst #kunstwerk #consciousness #pentimentigallery #kathrynmarkelfinearts
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Binding Problem E1_oil on canvas, 56 x 50 inches, 2025
#stevenbaris #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryabstractpainting #abstractpainting #attention #diagram #geometricabstraction #geometricabstract #thebindingproblem #kunst #kunstwerk #consciousness #pentimentigallery #kathrynmarkelfinearts
#stevenbaris #contemporaryabstract #contemporaryabstractpainting #abstractpainting #attention #diagram #geometricabstraction #geometricabstract #thebindingproblem #kunst #kunstwerk #consciousness #pentimentigallery #kathrynmarkelfinearts
Some Kinda Something Else • 2022 • acrylic, acrylic marker, spray paint on panel • 24” x 24” (60.96 × 60.96cm)
“…commanding attention, ‘no’ was nowhere near an option…”
timmcfarlane.com/work/spotlig...
“…commanding attention, ‘no’ was nowhere near an option…”
timmcfarlane.com/work/spotlig...
March 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Some Kinda Something Else • 2022 • acrylic, acrylic marker, spray paint on panel • 24” x 24” (60.96 × 60.96cm)
“…commanding attention, ‘no’ was nowhere near an option…”
timmcfarlane.com/work/spotlig...
“…commanding attention, ‘no’ was nowhere near an option…”
timmcfarlane.com/work/spotlig...
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Big shadow energy this morning in downtown Philly…
March 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Big shadow energy this morning in downtown Philly…
Artists don’t always know how deeply their work has affected collectors. But when they do share those sentiments, even years later, it can be just the reassurance you need to keep going. That and more is in my latest email, sent out yesterday to subscribers🎨🎨🎨
Tim McFarlane Studio: March 2025
When paintings find good homes, last-minute opportunities and weird things start showing up in the studio work...
open.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Artists don’t always know how deeply their work has affected collectors. But when they do share those sentiments, even years later, it can be just the reassurance you need to keep going. That and more is in my latest email, sent out yesterday to subscribers🎨🎨🎨
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Made this on the train to nyc. trump and anyone enabling him is a traitor to democracy and this country. (FYI I’m working on more stuff in between the work I do to pay the bills.)
March 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Made this on the train to nyc. trump and anyone enabling him is a traitor to democracy and this country. (FYI I’m working on more stuff in between the work I do to pay the bills.)
Work table from last week. Just thinking out loud about new possibilities in the work, research. I feel like these may become collage materials, that’s what’s been coming up for me internally since I made them.
March 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Work table from last week. Just thinking out loud about new possibilities in the work, research. I feel like these may become collage materials, that’s what’s been coming up for me internally since I made them.
[rewind] We Dance To Pray, 2013, acrylic on drywall, 9 x 13 feet
Part of my 2013 exhibition, Presence, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). I wanted to do something different with this wall space instead of putting another painting on it. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/timmcfar...
Part of my 2013 exhibition, Presence, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). I wanted to do something different with this wall space instead of putting another painting on it. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/timmcfar...
February 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
[rewind] We Dance To Pray, 2013, acrylic on drywall, 9 x 13 feet
Part of my 2013 exhibition, Presence, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). I wanted to do something different with this wall space instead of putting another painting on it. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/timmcfar...
Part of my 2013 exhibition, Presence, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). I wanted to do something different with this wall space instead of putting another painting on it. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/timmcfar...
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The right has united around a rejection of government as the solution to social problems. Which means they can generally agree to block new policies and programs. The left is united in its desire for government solutions. But that means they have to face the harder task of agreeing on what to do. 1/
Real q: why are modern American progressives so bad at building coalitions? The right wing is this ideologically incoherent hodge-podge of unrelated or even oppositional causes, yet they manage to work as a bloc. By contrast, liberals + leftists spend a huge amount of energy fighting w each other.
February 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The right has united around a rejection of government as the solution to social problems. Which means they can generally agree to block new policies and programs. The left is united in its desire for government solutions. But that means they have to face the harder task of agreeing on what to do. 1/
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Right. As far as I can tell no one in the Trump administration so much as lifted a finger about these exhibits. Instead the OAS preemptively canceled the shows for fear that the US might penalize the OAS for showing art by Black or queer artists. That's censorship as soft power
It's an OAS museum and does not answer to the U.S. federal government. The exhibit was funded by Canada, not OAS or the U.S. And a federal judge enjoined the termination provision of the anti-DEI EO anyway.
So who instructed the director of the museum to cancel the exhibit?
So who instructed the director of the museum to cancel the exhibit?
"Edwards, a Black artist who turns 71 in March, says she was born and raised in Miami under segregation. She says she has experienced institutional racism over the course of her career. But 'this is just direct,' she says."
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
February 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Right. As far as I can tell no one in the Trump administration so much as lifted a finger about these exhibits. Instead the OAS preemptively canceled the shows for fear that the US might penalize the OAS for showing art by Black or queer artists. That's censorship as soft power
New low achieved…
Rape and support for rapists are now key aspects of U.S federal government policy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted
Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
New low achieved…
I’m not saying I know anything about what’s happening, but it’s *reaaaaallly* interesting that the lone house in the neighborhood that proudly flew a big ass *rump flag throughout the 2016 elections until last week or so, has taken it down…
February 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m not saying I know anything about what’s happening, but it’s *reaaaaallly* interesting that the lone house in the neighborhood that proudly flew a big ass *rump flag throughout the 2016 elections until last week or so, has taken it down…
Soft Poem 11, 2023, acrylic, acrylic marker, acrylic medium, pigment on panel, 12" x 9" (30.48 x 22.86cm)
February 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Soft Poem 11, 2023, acrylic, acrylic marker, acrylic medium, pigment on panel, 12" x 9" (30.48 x 22.86cm)
The firehose of bad news keeps spewing but here’s my neighbor’s Christmas, then Valentines, now Easter tree…
February 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The firehose of bad news keeps spewing but here’s my neighbor’s Christmas, then Valentines, now Easter tree…
Seen in the wild. No notes.
February 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Seen in the wild. No notes.