Unique Fujifilm Instant Print, 3.375 x 4.25 inches
Signed on verso, 2013
Edition of 60 + 5 APs (each unique)

$200

Ryan James MacFarland was a resident at the Shandaken Project in summer 2012. While there, he worked in the studio familiarly known as "Bent Pine," so named for the unusual tree growing beside it. The bizarre distortions produced by the studios' PVC windows remained with MacFarland in the months after his residency. The next year, he proposed to make Bent Pine—a series of unique photographs documenting the tree, shot from within the studio.

The photographs defy categorization: they are unique prints from an analog process that appear digitally manipulated and mechanically reproduced. Bent Pine continues MacFarland's longstanding interest in imaging and abstracting the natural world.

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About the Artist
Ryan James MacFarland (born Tallahassee, FL, 1985) received his BFA from New York University in 2006. He is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in analog photography. Working with both natural and found environments as his primary subject, MacFarland explores the relationship to his surroundings informed by concepts such as nonlinear science, cosmic intervention, and conscious existence. His work has been exhibited in the US and abroad since 2004 and written about or published in Art F City, Artinfo, DuJour, Hyperallergic, Purple, OUT, The New York Times, Vogue, W, and Whitewall. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.