- Faris McReynolds
Faris McReynolds (b. 1977,
Dallas, Texas ) is aLos Angeles -based artist and musician. His paintings have been shown in Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, Berlin, Padua, and Antwerp, including numerous solo exhibitions. His work has been featured in "Details", "Art Papers", "Flash Art Magazine ", "Tema Celeste", and "ArtWeek".McReynolds grew up in
Richardson, Texas , a suburb of Dallas, the son of an Indian mother and American father. He spent his childhood between Texas andBombay , and even appeared in aBollywood movie entitled "Shahadat" at the age of eight (he is the nephew of Bollywood actorsAditya Pancholi andZarina Wahab ). He received his BFA fromOtis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 2000, though he started publicly showing his paintings at the age of twenty-one.In terms of style, McReynolds' current painted work appears heavily influenced by
French impressionism andpost-impressionism , the 1980's work ofRichard Prince andSherrie Levine ,Andy Warhol 's paintings of disasters, andFrancis Bacon . He paints both from and directly on top of digital media he creates or appropriates. His brushwork ranges from an expressionist palette-knifeimpasto to delicatewatercolor . Most of his paintings are completed in a single sitting in order to capture the immediate action, and he prefers to focus on the inherent comedy and tragedy of staged imagery rather than on documenting real events.Books
* 2007: "Entertain Us! A Selection of Paintings by Faris McReynolds" (Roberts & Tilton)
External links
* [http://www.robertsandtilton.com/artists/mcreynolds/mcreynolds.html Roberts & Tilton]
* [http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1550353&galleryId=69070 Goff + Rosenthal New York | Berlin]
* [http://www.galleryminmin.com Gallery Min Min]
* [http://www.shaheengallery.com/exhibitionDetails.php?exhibition_id=00000023 Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art]
* [http://www.timvanlaeregallery.com/artists/faris_mc_reynolds/works.html Tim Van Laere Gallery]
* [http://www.timvanlaeregallery.com/past_FarisMcReynolds.html The Beautiful Mob, Tim Van Laere Gallery]
* [http://www.freetimes.com/story/4824 Cleveland Free Times review]
* [http://www.dailygusto.com/blog/archives/art/000782.php gusto review]
* [http://la.flavorpill.net/mailer/issue159/index.html#dead flavorpill LA review]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/424853370/faris-mcreynolds.html artnet]
* [http://www.re-title.com/artists/Faris-McReynolds.asp re-tile.com]
* [http://www.robertsandtilton.com/publications.html Roberts & Tilton Publications] (book site)
* [http://www.stardustlane.com/ stardustlane.com] (official site)
* [http://www.myspace.com/exdetectives ex-detectives on MySpace] (band site)
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