Nov 12 2024 52 mins
Paul McLean is an artist, writer, thinker and educator whose career spans four decades. His primary research focuses on dimensional systems and creative applications. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, holds Masters degrees in Fine Arts and Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University/the Drucker-Ito School of Management, studied at Columbia Teachers College and the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. McLean has exhibited in galleries and museums, academic institutions, arts foundations and alternative arts venues in the United States and abroad. These include Timothy Yarger (Beverly Hills), SLAG Contemporary (Bushwick, NYC), David Lusk (Nashville), Parthenon and Cheekwood Museums (Nashville), St. Edwards University (Austin), An Tuirreann Arts Center (Isle of Skye, Scotland). McLean’s collective projects include DddD + 01 (Nashville), Art for Humans Gallery Chinatown (LA), Gramatica Parda (ANDLAB, LA), Good Faith Space (Brooklyn), “Wall Street to Main Street” (Catskill, NY), “Low Lives: Occupy” (Hemispheric Institute, NYU), “Eureka!” (CA) and others. McLean has participated in numerous panels, residencies and lecture series, including programs hosted by the Living Theater (NYC), Chashama (NY), Morris Graves Residency + Ink People Center for the Arts and (CA), WESTAF’s first virtual forum on the state of arts in America. He has published writings with Brooklyn Rail and ArtInfo, hosted art radio programs in Santa Fe and Nashville, and been featured in or interviewed by the Arts Newspaper, Artnet, LA Times, Mutual Arts and other periodicals. McLean has been a visiting artist at the School of Visual Arts and New York Studio School, among others. McLean’s work is held in numerous collections, including the New Museum/Rhizome ArtBase, King County Hospital (Seattle) and Morris Graves Foundation (CA). He has produced many virtual or net.art projects, presented via AFH platforms, Art for Humans dot com, the AFH Tumblr Array, Mystic Novad, 4dPOP, AFH Blog and through AFH social media streams (MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, etc.). Large samples of his still and moving images can be found archived at AFH Flickr and YouTube. McLean has been based in Astoria, Oregon since 2018.
WEB LINKS AND PROJECTS
- AFH nexus: www.mysticnovad.com
- Online catalog for “VyNIL Cycle”: www.goodfaithspace.com
- AFH still image archive: www.flickr.com/photos/artforhumans/sets
- AFH moving image archive: www.youtube.com/artforhumans
- AFH Instagram: www.instagram.com/valubl
- AFH Facebook: www.facebook.com/artforhumans
[Additional materials]
- Original AFH platform: www.artforhumans.com
- 2018 Application site for Oxford/Ruskin SoA portfolio + texts: www.ox4dafh.com
- OwA archive + documentation: www.4Dpop.com
- AFH Tumblr Array (list, circa 2012): www.artforhumans.com/tumblr/BLOGLIST.html
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