Sean McFarland on his photography of modern urban perceptions of nature and wilderness. About Sean McFarland: Sean McFarland is an artist whose work explores the relationships between the process of image making, artifice, photographic truth, and the representation of landscape. McFarland earned a BS in Computer Information Systems and Studio Art from Humboldt State University in 2002, and an MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts in 2004. Sean's solo exhibitions include White Columns, New York City, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. His work has been included in shows at the San Jose Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and Art/Miami/Basel. Among his awards are a fellowship to the National Photography Institute at Columbia University, 2004, fellowship and residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, 2009 and the Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, 2009. Selected reviews include The San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, and Artforum. His work is in the collections of the Oakland Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art Library. About Bay Area Now 6 at YBCA: Bay Area Now debuted in the summer of 1997 as a much needed platform for assessing the state of the visual arts in the San Francisco/Bay Area region, and to bring to the public's attention the work of exceptional artists active in the local art scene. Throughout the triennial's almost fifteen-year history it has continued to be the barometer of what is happening in the arts by placing new work into the limelight making it available to the general public. At each historical juncture, Bay Area Now has played a significant role in providing a platform, by marking the interplay between contemporary art and other innovative activities that have come to define the region. More @ http://ybca.org/ban6-visual-exhibition