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Jonathan McFadden

Printmaker

Jonathan McFadden, image 00I, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"


Jonathan McFadden, image 002, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 
Jonathan McFadden, image 003, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 

Jonathan McFadden, image 004, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 
Jonathan McFadden, image 005, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 

Jonathan McFadden, image 006, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 
Jonathan McFadden, image 007, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 
Jonathan McFadden, image 008, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 
Jonathan McFadden, image 009, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 
Jonathan McFadden, image 00I0, 2009, Mezzotint and Photo-etching, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

 

 

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ARTIST BIO

Jonathan grew up in Houston, Texas. In 2006 Jonathan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art
with emphasis in Printmaking and a Bachelor of Art with emphasis in French Language and
Culture. The following year he moved to France to work as a language assistant at three primary
schools in Roubaix. In 2007, Jonathan moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to obtain a Master of Fine
Art with emphasis in Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art which he recieved in 2009. He
uses his extensive knowledge in media art, printmaking, bookmaking, digital video, digital
photography, installation, and drawing to create his work. Currently, Jonathan resides and works
in Madison, Wisconsin.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

The veil through which our surroundings are examined in relation to weather forecasting is
similar to the Jorge Luis Borges short story "Del rigor en la ciencia"(On Exactitude in
Science). In the Borges’’s tale cartographers draw a map of the Empire on a scale of a mile to the
mile therefore covering the empire merging real and simulated worlds only to have the Empire
collapse insinque with the fraying of the map’s edges. Today maps found in papers, on television,
and the internet have developed in such a way that they mirror our understanding of the world
and its atmosphere. Complicated abstract forms mimic the clouds that hover above our heads.
Sequences of dotted lines represent both the potential and actual paths of storms that can kill
hundreds or even thousands. We look at weather forecasts and see images of events that are
happing now alongside events that will perhaps happen days from now.

My work is concerned with the filter through which we view meteorological events and the
simulated world that has developed as a result of the satellite and Doppler imagery that has
flooded media outlets. Through deconstructing imagery of meteorological events as they are
happening along with ones that are predicted to happen my work seeks to delve further into the
blur between the simulated and real. The French theorist Jean Baudrillard writes about the blur
between the simulated and real stating that a “simulacrum is not [merely] a copy of the real, but
becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal.”

The mélange of real and predicted events allows my work to exam the means in which a
catastrophic and destructive event such as a hurricane can be drawn into forms or dotted lines
that move across a 2-dimensional plane and regarded as the hyperreal. The events depicted in my
work exist seek to exist beyond the real and create truth from the possibility of prediction. These
events are those which have, can, and will happen. I seek to distort the lines of an event and its
location removing elements to focus on the possibilities of what has and can happen again in our
environment. It is in the artificial and digitalized representations that we can see what can happen
and the ease in which our environment can become destructive. In the 1960’s Edward Lorenz
demonstrated in his computer models the ease in which simulation can become reality and that
“one flap of a seagull’s wings can change the course of weather forever.”

 

 

 

Artist Resume 2008

EDUCATION___________________________________________________________
2007- 2009      M.F.A. - Printmaking, Edinburgh College of Arts, Edinburgh, U.K.
2001-2006       B.F.A. – Studio Art: Printmaking, (Cum Laude)
                          B.A. – French, (Cum Laude)
                          Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
2004                 L'Université de Picardie, Amiens, France

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS_______________________________________________

2009              
Thrid Wheel , Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
Blueprint , Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, U.K.
                        to another journey by water,
                        new works by: Jonathan McFadden + Kathryn Wiggins ,
                        Patriot Hall, Edinburgh U.K.
Mythos Cadence: Jonathan McFadden+Kathryn Wiggins ,
                        Limousine Bull, Aberdeen, U.K.

2008             
    2008 Artists in Residence, Heimat , Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois
                        2008 Degree Show , Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, U.K.
Transient , Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, U.K.
Diomira , The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
RSA Student Exhibition , Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, U.K.
New Edinburgh Work , Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, U.K.
Knights Without Arms , The GRV, Edinburgh, U.K.
2007         
Open , Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
Northville Print Show , Northville Art House, Northville, Michigan
                        Juror: Zdzislaw Sikora, Chair, College for Creative Studies, Detroit       
Grand Opening , Tillie Arts of Marfa, Marfa, Texas
2006
Heart & Hands 2- Book Art Exhibition
                         University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Love Library
                         University of Nebraska- Omaha, Hexagon Gallery
                         Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska
                        Juror: Timothy Ely
Dogs Among Men , Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas
Investigating Spaces , Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Taking Back The West , Bolm Studios, Austin, Texas
FASA: Annual Juried Show , Shady Tree Studios, Austin, Texas
                        Juror:James Surls
All-Student Juried Competition, Texas State University, Texas
                         Juror: Vance Wingate- Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005                
My Space Exchange Portfolio , State University of New York,
                        New Paltz, New York
Photography Exhibition , Alkek Library, San Marcos, Texas
2004              
All-Student Juried Competition , Texas State University, Texas
                        Juror: Clint Willour, director- Galveston Arts Center
Identity , trade portfolio, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Artworks , Walkers' Gallery, San Marcos, Texas
How to Build Your Own Electric Ark , Interim Gallery,    
                         San Marcos, Texas                      

AWARDS AND HONORS_________________________________________________

2008              Residency , 4 weeks, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois
2008              Residency , 3 weeks, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
2007              Postgraduate Workshop , Cove Park, Cove, U.K.
2005              Julia Posey Art Competition Scholarship , Texas State University
2004               International Student Fee Scholarship , Texas State University

CATALOGUES, ARTICLES, AND PUBLICATIONS_________________________

“Old meets new as art students revisit classics”, Edinburgh Evening News . Jan. 21, 2009
RSA Student Exhition, Exhibition catalogue . Royal Scottish Academy. Edinburgh U.K.
Mansfield, Susan. “It's in the bag if you keep an open mind”, The Scotsman . Nov. 23, 2007.
Open. Exhibition catalogue . Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.

 

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