Paul McLeanThe Selling of Nothing-burger “Art”In “Currents, Flow & Reproduction,” I opened the conversation on Phase 3 of my doctoral painting series by citing an essay by Jay D…May 5, 2019May 5, 2019
Paul McLeanCurrents, Flow & ReproductionTo commence the third phase of 4D VyNIL, the painting cycle for my doctoral [syn]thesis, I wish to address a common position among tech…Apr 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019
Paul McLeanINSIDE>OUTSIDE [Revisited]“DDDD. Parthenon Museum, Nashville, Tennessee 2000. Massively attended expo incorporating new and traditional media in a variety of…Apr 22, 2019Apr 22, 2019
Paul McLean[REVIEW] Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot ExplainOn April 7th, a Sunday, we piled in the car early in the morning and drove through lots of rain to Bend, OR, and the High Desert Museum…Apr 16, 2019Apr 16, 2019
Paul McLeanPOST-STORAGE [Part 3]I attended the FisherPoets reading at Labor Temple Diner and Bar in downtown Astoria to see my friend Tom Hilton perform. It was a…Mar 12, 2019Mar 12, 2019
Paul McLeanPOST-STORAGE [Part 2]In February 2019 we closed the storage units we had occupied in Upland, California, since 2006 or -7, filled a 26’ box truck with the…Feb 23, 2019Feb 23, 2019
Paul McLeanPOST-STORAGE [PART 1We live by the mouth of the Columbia River, where it empties into the Pacific Ocean. After nearly a half year in Astoria, I already notice…Feb 18, 2019Feb 18, 2019
Paul McLeanVelvet Buzzsaw [REVIEW]Velvet Buzzsaw presents a fun-house, horror show vision of the Big-A Art World, populated by peculiar characters (creatures) whose highly…Feb 15, 2019Feb 15, 2019
Paul McLeanCONTEXT: A Matterhorn Project; Junk Photography 2014–18 (Artist Statement)Over the weekend while I was working on various Matterhorn Project items, I saw a notification that informed me that Flickr was uploading…Jan 21, 2019Jan 21, 2019
Paul McLeanBottleneckingThe concept of interference has to be updated. Interference is the weed of intellectual and practical habitats. Variations are noise and…Jan 20, 2019Jan 20, 2019