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McGarren Flack

My professional interest in art started when I saw the John Singer Sargent traveling art show in Washington D.C. I was captivated with the ability Sargent had in producing a scene that came alive and at the same time made it look like a painting. It was my desire to create a life like painting that does not lose it’s painterly quality.

I started painting in the fall of 2002 at Brigham Young University in the Illustration program. I graduated from BYU in April of 2005. I was then accepted into the Masters of Fine Art program at the University of Utah and graduated with my MFA in painting and drawing May 2008.

I love to paint Alla Prima, a wet into wet technique. Alla Prima for me is a painterly representation of a moment in time. It shows each brushstroke and forces me to be liberal and accurate with the amount of paint I apply. Oil painting is a versatile medium that allows a full range of value and color. But most of all oil paint has the greatest longevity of any other medium. I would hope that my paintings would inspire people not only today but in the years to come.

Mossy Reflection

People are my main subject matter even though I like to paint some landscapes and still life. A naturalistic view of a beautiful figure in obscure areas is a common scene in my art work.

Cyrenaic Restraint

The physically beautiful model could be walking down an empty alley, sitting on a porch of an abandoned building, or enjoying a lovely scene in front of her, alone. I want to express the stereotypical view of beautiful women in a context that would not be seen. An old abandoned building is seen as ugly, unlike a model. But in time the model will eventually become as the building. Yet at the same time in the moment captured, beauty is seen not only in the model but also in the building. Beauty can be seen in anything; you just have to know where to look and how to see it.

Beehive Tearoom

Manna Man

In A Box