A new solo exhibition of paintings by internationally acclaimed Jamaican artist and educator Bryan McFarlane opens at the Olympia Gallery on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 6pm.

The exhibition, titled Fragments of Time III, will be opened by Richard Byles, Governor of the Bank of Jamaica.

Most recently, McFarlane’s works were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and with Gallery Naga at Art Miami.

Born in Moore Town, Portland, Bryan McFarlane works from his studios in Boston, Beijing and Jamaica, and has travelled extensively painting and lecturing. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, an Institute of Jamaica Silver Musgrave medallist, and a graduate of the Jamaica School of Art, now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Artists.

Throughout his career, McFarlane has travelled worldwide painting, teaching and lecturing on art. He has held visiting professorships at UWI, the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

While studying and teaching, McFarlane received prestigious grants that allowed him to travel extensively to Brazil, Columbia, West Africa, France, Turkey, Japan and China to engage in discourse regarding art history, art production and criticism.

“McFarlane’s paintings sumptuously smeared, dolloped, and brushed in lush colors, read like the roiling imagination itself, full of nebulous glimpses of terrors and comforts, demons and deities,” commented Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe correspondent in July 2022.

“Fragments of Time III”, he said, “was completed through the inspiration and support of numerous forebears such as AD Scott, Barrington Watson, Osmond Watson, Ralph Campbell—those who made possible a generation of younger artists coming into being.”

Fragments of Time III is open to the public, free of charge, at the Olympia Gallery, 202 Old Hope Road, (opposite UTech) through April 13, 2024, Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am-4pm.

Art students and school groups are welcome.