Painter
Ian Mclean
118 Artworks
Ian Mclean
Canada
« I want the viscosity of the medium to reveal passages of control and chaos all the while evoking a sense of beauty and ambiguity in a sea of paint. »
Ian Mclean is a passionate Canadian painter who has exhibited his work nationally. He seeks to use his paintings to document fictional efforts to seek utopia in residential settings, mixing modernist architecture with abstract elements to achieve a sense of otherworldly drama. His chosen medium is oil and he appreciates the enormous history it carries, but he likes to use it to infuse his images with irreverence and subtext. Mclean's overall aesthetic appears impulsive, seductive and impactful.
juror, Prisma Art Prize- Rome, Italy
juror, Prisma Art Prize- Rome, Italy
juror, Prisma Art Prize- Rome, Italy
juror, Prisma Art Prize- Rome, Italy
juror, Prisma Art Prize- Rome, Italy
contestant, "Landscape Artist of the Year Canada" CBC TV, Makeful TV- Toronto, Canada
Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career- Toronto, Canada
Semi-finalist of Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series - Nominated- Miami, United States
Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career- Toronto, Canada
Woodstock Art Gallery Juried Exhibition- First Prize- Woodstock, Canada
Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career Visual Artist Grant- Toronto, Canada
Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant Juried Exhibition- First Prize- Brantford, Canada
Re View / Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery - Sarnia, Canada
The Same Things At The Same Time / Gallery in the Grove - Bright's Grove, Canada
Juried exhibition / Thames Art Gallery - Chatham, Canada
Floor Plan / Artopia Gallery - Sarnia, Canada
Summer Light / CFA Gallery - Toronto, Cape Verde
Informal Observations / Sopa Fine Arts - Kelowna, Canada
Ian McLean: Recent Paintings / CFA Gallery - Toronto, Canada
New Acquisitions: Contemporary Canadian Painting / CFA Gallery - Toronto, Canada
Conditions / Loop Gallery - Toronto, Canada
Easily Distracted / St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre - St. Thomas, Canada
Here, Then, and There / Forest City Gallery - London, Canada
Recreational Use / Loop Gallery - Toronto, Canada
Forces of Nature / Glenhyrst Art Gallery - Brantford, Canada
Excess / Transit Gallery - Hamilton, Canada
Living Arrangements / Gallery Lambton - Sarnia, Canada
Living Arrangements / Transit Gallery - Hamilton, Canada
Art Intelligence: The Near Future of Art in Canada / DesignTo - Toronto, Canada
Juried exhibition / Visual Arts Mississauga (Toronto) - Mississauga, Canada
Connexions / Gallery in the Grove - Bright's Grove, Canada
Presently / Art Gallery of Peterborough - Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Elusive Utopia / Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery - Sarnia, Canada
Out Of The Deep Freeze: 15 Hot Painters to Watch in 2015 / CFA Gallery - Torotno, Canada
City of Art / Gallery 1313 - Toronto, Canada
Weird / Harbourfront Centre - Toronto, Canada
Collective Vision / Loop Gallery - Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibit / Handworks Gallery - Saint John, Canada
Saatchi Art - Catalog- Global Perspectives: Art That Transcends Borders
Paul Morden- Art Competition Featuring Sarnia Teacher Airing on CBC
Ian McLean website- Ian McLean
Colin Gowdy- Sarnia Art Teacher To Make Reality TV Debut
John Kissick- Elusive Utopia catalogue
Lisa Daniels- Elusive Utopia catalogue
Tom Maunder- Ian McLean: A Walk On The Wild Side
Dave LeBlanc, Globe and Mail- "City of Art"
Maria Papaefstathiou- Exciting Artists You Should Have Heard About But Probably Haven't
Toronto Life Magazine- "Ian McLean at Loop Gallery"
Darren White- Brantford Rocks the Art Talk Pecha Kucha Style
Andrea Rabinovitch- Ian McLean: Yards and Muscle Cars
Eliza Griffiths- Living Arrangements: Sublimation, Decor, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Paintings of Ian McLean
Ottawa, Canada
Brussels, Belgium
Chicago, United States
Minneapolis, United States
Malibu, United States
Atlanta, United States
Montreal, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Melbourne, Australia
London , United Kingdom
New York, United States
Oslo, Norway
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