DDDD/01/AFH
Paul McLean (Lead Artist)
Fon: 615.491.7285
E-mail: art@artforhumans.com
www.artforhumans.com
EDUCATION
1986 B.A. English, Minor in Fine Arts, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
EXHIBITIONS
ONE-MAN SHOWS
2003
"Eureka!"; Guider House; Nashville, TN
"Homage"' Eureka City Hall; Eureka, CA
"Dress Rehearsal"; Art for Humans
(HTML by
Shane Kennedy)
"Eureka"; Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Corrupted";
Art for Humans
"Digital Prints
from 'Seam 01'"; Art for Humans
"Snowhaus";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Solace";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
2002
“D.I.G. Through V”; Downtown Presbyterian Church; Nashville, TN
“Give Away”; Guider House; Nashville, TN
“Last Call”; AFH Studio; Nashville, TN
"Dance Theatre School";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Little Girl";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Lightboxes"; Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Haunted";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Prick"; Art
for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"RX"; Art for Humans
(HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Creativity
Pays"; Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Incidence";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Road Show 2: Afterburn";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Music for the Mind";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Skin and Ink";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Road Show";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Opening Credits";
Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Conversations
at TAG"; Art for Humans (HTML by Shane Kennedy)
"Portraits"; New Media and performance; 33rd
Nashville Independent Film Festival; Nashville, TN
"Out with the Old/In with the New"; Open Studio; Nashville, TN
"Conference Room"; TAG Gallery;
Nashville, TN
2001
"Culture01"; Polifilo ; Nashville,
TN
"15 FPS Part 2"; multimedia presentation; Six Degrees Restaurant; Nashville,
TN
"15 FPS Part 1"; multimedia presentation for Nashville film community;
Citation Soundstage;
Nashville, TN
"Jewels of the Nagas"; Yoga
Source; Nashville, TN
2000
"The Hunger & the Feast"; ongoing installation; Virago;
Nashville, TN
"Windows to the World" (01); Tennessee
Arts Commission Gallery; Nashville, TN
"Heartless 01" (01); JJ's Café & Market; Nashville, TN
1999
"Cowboyz + Cowgirlz Revisited"; Dreamworks;
Nashville, TN
1998
"ZOUNDS!!!"; The Pineapple Room at Cheekwood
Museum; Nashville, TN (lecture)
"The Embrace"; Third Coast Clay; Nashville, TN
"Cowboyz + Cowgirlz"; Four Crows Gallery; Nashville, TN
1997
"Tobacco Road"; The Arts Company; Nashville, TN
"Where My Feet Stick To The Ground"; The Peanut Gallery; Nashville,
TN
1996
"Like A Rolling Stone Of Destiny"; The Electric Frog; Edinburgh, Scotland
"My Own Private Glencoe"; An
Tuireann Arts Center; Portree, Isle of Skye; Scotland
"The Divorce Industry"; Eidolon Gallery; Santa Fe, NM
1995
"Easels, Cities, Aliens & Spaceships"; Private Residence; Santa
Fe, NM
1992
"Johnny Law Kilt Mah Bruther"; Luna Gallery; Santa Fe, NM (performance)
"Wreckrospective"; Zia Diner; Santa Fe, NM
1991
"Look Out She's Moving"; Santa Fe Bakery; Santa Fe, NM
1986
"The Cyclopean Eye"; The Isis Gallery; Riley Hall; Univ. of Notre Dame;
Notre Dame, IN
COLLABORATIONS, GROUP SHOWS
2003
"Bar Codes, Rituals, & Subliminal Tapes"; AFH Gallery;
Eureka, CA
2002
"Fire…"; Bohan; With
John Guider; Nashville, TN
"Summer Selections"; Cumberland
Gallery; Nashville, TN
3rd Annual VAAN Studio Tour (Preview Show Watkins
College); Nashville, TN
2001
"Small Packages 7"; Cumberland Gallery; Nashville, TN
"Fall Leaves Fall" (01); Exit/In; Nashville, TN
2nd Annual VAAN Studio Tour (Preview Show at Watkins College); Nashville, TN
"Seam" (01); Attic Gallery; Nashville, TN
"Home" (01); ruby green Contemporary
Arts Foundation; Nashville, TN
2000
"A Cold Empty Feelin'" (01); ruby green Contemporary Arts Foundation;
Nashville, TN
"Heartless" (01); Poetry Reading & Multimedia; Bean Central; Nashville,
TN
"Dog Show" (01); Fido; Nashville, TN
1st Annual Nashville Artists' Studio Tour (Preview show at ArtSynergy)
"D.I.G. Through III"; Downtown Presbyterian Church; Nashville, TN (Best
of Show Award)
"Home Show"; Coordinated art open-house at multi-million dollar residence;
Nashville, TN
"Sensing Change"; ArtSynergy; Nashville, TN
"Artwork, Movie Stills, Sets"; Ground
Zero; Nashville, TN
"Inside>Outside" (DddD); Parthenon
Museum East Gallery; Nashville, TN
1999
"In Sickness & In Health" (DddD); In
the Gallery; Nashville, TN
"Sirens & Conflagrations" (DddD); Cheekwood Museum's Temporary Contemporary
Galleries; Nashville, TN
"D.I.G. Through
II"; Downtown Presbyterian Church; Nashville, TN (panel discussion)
1998
"Artclectic; University School of Nashville;
Nashville, TN
"D.I.G. Show"; Downtown Presbyterian Church; Nashville, TN (panel discussion)
1996
Local Color; Nashville, TN
Gallery of Tennessee Artists; Nashville, TN
1993-4
"Regional Standard Arts Project"; Exhibited in over one dozen Group
Shows; Santa Fe, NM
1992
"All Souls Show"; Luna Gallery; Santa Fe, NM
1991
"Black & White"; Aztec Cafe; Santa Fe, NM
"Portraits"; Aztec Cafe; Santa Fe, NM
1988-9
Beckley Newspapers Inc. 7th Annual Juried Exhibition; Beckley, WV (Purchase Award)
1987
56th Annual Allied Artist Juried Exhibit; Sunrise
Museum; Charleston, WV (Purchase Award)
1986
Senior Show; Snite Museum
of Art and Isis Gallery; Notre Dame, IN
3rd Annual Museum Shop Juried Exhibition; The
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Chicago IL
1985
2nd Annual Museum Shop Juried Exhibition; The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago;
Chicago IL
American T-Shirt Gallery; New York, NY
Unique Boutique; New York, NY
Virtu; Detroit, MI
Commander Salamander; Washington, DC
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Boult, Cummings, Conners, & Berry
PLC; Nashville, TN
Mr. & Mrs. Hewlett Smith, Former Governor of West Virginia; Beckley, WV
Demetria Kalodimos,
Anchorwoman, Channel 4 News; Nashville, TN
King County Memorial Hospital; Seattle, WA
Sunrise Museum; Charleston, WV
Union Station Sheraton Hotel; Pittsburgh, PA
Ground Zero; Nashville, TN
Lions & Nickels; Nashville, TN
TBA Entertainment (Brooks and Dunn)
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel; Nashville, TN
Morris Graves Foundation
PUBLICATIONS
McLean, 01 and DddD have been previewed and reviewed numerous times by Nashville
publications The Tennesean (12), The
Nashville Scene (7), The Nashville
City Paper (4), Nashville In Review (defunct) (3), and Nashville Rage (2).
“Paul McLean: Artist in Residence”; North Coast Journal, Humboldt
County, CA; feature by Linda Mitchell
"Visiting Artist Presents Multimedia Show"; Eureka Times-Standard; Eureka,
CA
RESIDENCIES
2003
The Morris Graves Foundation
Ink People Center for the Arts
Riverwind, LLC
ARTS RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Numerous lectures and panel discussions; most recently (2001) moderated panel
discussion for Leadership Nashville at BMI
2000
Staff contributor of art listings and mini-reviews for Gannett publication Nashville
Rage
1998-1999
Staff columnist for Nashville In Review; Nashville, TN
Weekly visual arts reviewer for citywide publication; used forum to help Nashville
legislate a Percent for Public Art program
1998-2001
First Union Tower/Destination Gallery; Nashville, TN
Directed project for the integration of art and commerce in downtown Nashville
high-rise office building; established exhibition space, the Destination Gallery,
and curated exhibitions of paintings by artist Don Vogl, photographs by Scottish
photographer Diane Barrie, and others; established annual exhibitions of works
by building tenants; established Destination Gallery Newsletter for tenants of
First Union Tower, notifying them of arts events
1998
Artradio Radio Program; WRVU Radio Station; Vanderbilt University; Nashville,
TN
Produced, hosted and directed live radio show, featuring interviews with artists,
art collectors, publishers, writers, museum and arts organization personnel; also
featured musical performances and radio drama; featured guests included Frank
Stella, Richard Haas, Tom Otterness, Stephen Antonakos, Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen,
Alexandra Nakita and many others
1995-6
Goldleaf Framemakers of Santa Fe; Santa Fe, NM
Manufactured fine gilded picture frames for renowned artists, such as Richard
Tuttle, Susan Rothenberg, Woody Gwyn and Elias Rivera; involved selecting, cutting,
and preparing raw wood moldings for gilding; burnishing, applying finishes to
frames and preparing frames for hanging; handled delivery, shipping and packing,
and shop maintenance; Owner famed guilder Marty Horowitz
Artwaves and Art Talk Radio Programs; KVSF and KSFR Radio Stations; Santa Fe Community
College; Santa Fe, NM
Produced, hosted and directed live radio show, featuring interviews with artists,
art collectors, publishers, writers, museum and arts organization personnel; also
featured musical performances and radio drama; featured guests included Richard
Tuttle, Bob Wade, Ron Robles, John Connell, Terry Allen, Julie Lazar, The Vogels
(Collectors), and many others
David Rettig Fine Arts; Santa Fe, NM
Assistant gallery director for 19 year-old gallery, featuring the work of Bob
Haozous, David Di Suvero, and others;
answered phones, handled sales, shipped and packed art installed art, and assisted
with artists' receptions
Regional Standard Arts Project; Santa Fe, NM
Established and operated for fourteen months an artists' gallery and networking
center, exhibiting the work of over one hundred artists and artisans; organized,
curated, installed exhibitions; coordinated and facilitated member meetings, speakers
(such as Armando Lara) and performers; handled sales, shipping and packing, scheduling,
and accounting
Old World Tile; Santa Fe, NM
Assisted master tilesetter Juan Lopez install fine tile and stonework in Santa
Fe area homes
1990-2
Joe Wade Fine Arts and Joe Wade Contemporary Art; Monte Wade Fine Art; Terry Wade
Fine Art; Santa Fe, NM
Worked as gallery salesman for oldest downtown Santa Fe gallery and four other
Wade family-owned galleries
Contemporary Southwest and Frank Howell Galleries; Santa Fe, NM
Handled art installations for over forty artists in a 3500 sq. ft. space in downtown
Santa Fe; shipped and packed art; sold and telemarketed artwork to collectors
from around the world; assisted at artists' receptions and transporting artwork
The Hollander Collection; Santa Fe, NM
Director of gallery featuring the art of Gino Hollander and his collection of
Spanish colonial furniture
1989-95
Elaine Horwitch Galleries; Santa Fe, NM
Assisted installation of exhibits by gallery artists, including Woody Gwyn, Thurman
Statim and many others; shipped and packed art; assisted at artists' receptions
and transporting artwork; outside installations
1989-90
Artisans de Santa Fe; Santa Fe, NM; Stretched Canvas in venerable Santa Fe art
supply store for hundreds of local, national and international artists
1988-9
Freedom Gallery; Beckley, WV
Owned and operated art gallery, handling all aspects of business
1984-6
Funkshunart; USA
Manufactured and marketed unique hand-painted clothing, which was sold at the
Contemporary Museum of Chicago Museum Shop, and numerous boutiques across the
country
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1987-PRESENT
Conducted private tutorials with children and adults
1997-1999
Cheekwood Education; Nashville, TN
Provided art instruction for numerous classes, age-groups, and mediums for the
Cheekwood Education Program
1998
O'More College of Design; Franklin, TN
Painting instructor at accredited design college
1996
Wilderness Adventure Company; Santa Fe, NM
Taught art to as many as thirty children, ages 6-14, per day; focus on painting
and sketching
1993-4
Regional Standard Arts Project; Santa Fe, NM
Coordinated the development of curriculum for several classes for adults, including
photography, found objects, and painting from the figure; established guest lecture
series, featuring nationally and regionally recognized artists, collectors and
business people; counseled artists on daily basis, regarding career goals, presentation,
and education
1989-90
Girl's Club of Santa Fe
Taught art in after-school program, grades K-6
1989
Beckley Children's Museum; Beckley, WV
Taught painting to children, ages 6-12
ABOUT ART FOR HUMANS
Art for Humans is the fifth manifestation of the 4D aesthetic. The first was the
Regional Standard Arts Project (Santa Fe 1993-4), an artist-owned and -operated
gallery and arts nexus, which at its peak exhibited the work of nearly one hundred
quality Santa Fe-based artists and artisans. The second manifestation took form
in three radio programs: Art Talk, ArtWaves (Santa Fe), and ArtRadio (Nashville).
Artist-interviewees included Richard Tuttle, Frank Stella, Stephen Antanakos,
Elias Rivera, the Vogels, Bob Wade, Terry Allen, Ron Robles, Richard Haas, and
hundreds of others. The third and forth emergence of the 4D aesthetic were the
artist assemblages DddD and 01 (See below).
Art for Humans is an Internet-based vehicle for the creator, created and creative.
Artforhumans.com was launched in a working beta stage in July of 2002, after eight
months of design and planning. The infrastructure of the online project consists
of Galleries, Culture (Magazine and Village), Store, Archives and Links. The concept
of art without walls and borders is the foundation for this iteration of 4D aesthetic.
Upon this foundation we are constructing a vision of the artist as contemporary
journeyman. The artistic collaboration is rooted in the notion of the travelling
band, building on ideas of multi-disciplinary configurations of artists drawn
from a model established in the folk music tradition, as put forth and proven
by DddD.
We hope to produce and document a series of residencies, workshops, lectures,
exhibitions, installations and exhibitions around the world, guided by 4D aesthetic
principles. We will structure these productions based on models established and
then refined through implementation over the past decade in past 4D forms. The
first will occur in the Spring 2002, through the Morris Graves Foundation and
The Ink People Center for the Arts in Northern California.
ABOUT DDDD AND 01
O1 is an organic assemblage of accomplished creative individuals from diverse
backgrounds and disciplines, brought together by lead artist Paul McLean. The
focus of 01 has been the sharpening of perception (formula: art>life><art>life>)
through the technology/media of communication and culture. The formal approach
of 01 involves the presentation of a multi-layered, multi-disciplinary exploration
of a facet of human experience (like birth, death, conflict, storytelling, etc.).
The presentation is intended to provide the viewer, whatever his or her level
of visual literacy, with a compelling and encompassing sensory experience. 01
is the second phase of collective aesthetic investigation undertaken by McLean.
In 1999, McLean and Donald Ashworth Cox III (National Science Foundation) established
DDDD, an experimental commingling of the methods and ideas of the Arts and Sciences.
The experiment began with the various definitions of the 4th Dimension and has
continued to expand the scope of its "investigations", since then. DDDD
has worked solely within the context of the gallery and museum, while 01 has also
produced work for alternative art spaces. Participating artists in both 01 and
DDDD are given as much freedom as possible to pursue personal aesthetic responses
to the basic human condition addressed in a given exhibit concept. The conceptual
patron saint of the 01/DDDD approach is Marshall McLuhan.
AFH DDDD AND 01 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Julian Lang (Native Artist)
Virginia Niekrasz-Laurent (Ballet Director, BRAVA! Dance Eureka &
The Dancers Studio)
TJ Mullen (Audio Artist, Painter)
Kevin Spicher (Audio Artist)
Seth Strope (Audio Artist, Painter, Printer)
Ian Strope (Videographer)
Rhett Bice (Videographer)
Gary Van Oosbree (Silkscreen Artist)
John Guider (Photographer)
Shane Kennedy (Binary Artist)
Donald Ashworth Cox 3 (Internet 2 Director, National Science Foundation)
Ellen Rudick (Lions & Nickels)
Sharon Gilchrist (Josh Rouse Band)
Megan Walborn (Art in the Airport, Fugitive Arts Center)
Brent Stewart (Filmmaker)
Robert Solomon (Woodland Studios)
King Williams (MCA/United Artists)
Percy Person (Keyboardist, Producer)
Jerry Dale McFadden (Swag, the Mavericks)
Nicole Koenig (Nashville Ballet)
The Nashville Ballet
The Nashville Chamber Orchestra
Jon Randall (Nash Ramblers, Emmylou Harris)
Eric Johnston (Artist)
Michael Durham (Photographer)
Dane Carder (Artist)
Amy Hoskins (Poet)
Mattie B. (Guitarist)
The Lavender Boozers (Band)
The Mercy Bell (Band)
Erin Hewgley (Sculptor, Cellist)
Scott Mele (Video Editor)
Roy El Wooten (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones)
Andrew Krichels (Choreographer)
Margaret Tolbert (Painter)
Celeste Roberge (Sculptor)
Nitin Jayaswal (Sculptor)
Eric Scowden (Architect)
Dr. William D. McLean (Photographer)
Virginia Cannon (Virginia Cannon Fine Art)
Jonathon Morse (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones)
Jane Derryberry (Model, Actress)
Kai Bojanzyk (Model, Actress)
Chris Scheele (Model, Actor)
Bryce McCloud (Woodblock Printer)
Harold Jarboe (Filmmaker)
Trey Mitchell (Photographer)
Alexia Abegg (Model)
Saddlesong (Band)
Miriam Dwyer (Model, Actress)
Andy van Roon (Film)
Diane Avice du Buisson (Artist, Model, Yoga Practitioner)
Jim Herrington (Photographer)
Mike Dixon (Photographer)
Shawna Love (Model)
Rob Bancroft (Photographer)
Rebecca Stout (Musician)
Tom Mason (Musician, Actor)
Daniel Tashian (Musician)
Charlotte Avant (Artist, Musician)
Don Adams (Metal Designer)
Roger Walker (Illustrator)
Earle Whittaker (Woodworker)
Shannon Holland (Musician)
Nicole Watkins (Vocalist)
Jeanni Croffi (Violinist)
Chip Jordan (Musician)
Dan Immel (Musician)
Jeff Coffin (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones)
Patrick Avice du Buisson (Architect)
Adam Landry (Stateside, Painter)
Matt Hamilton (Audio Sculptor, Voight Kampff)
Greg Hallmark (Filmmaker)
Garth Williams (Web Artist, Graphic Designer)
Lee Tucker (Film Editor, Filmmaker)