Hector McLean is a young, emerging painter based in Berlin.

​

McLean's recent work, while maintaining the usual focus on body language and ambiguous narrative, with "Screen", now shows a fascination with the way images are seen through digital media platforms. His paintings adopt the template of what could be a web page, an online video or a social media feed. This promotes a feeling of familiarity around what appears to be randomly selected subjects. The artist provides insight into what the viewer have become accustomed to seeing, an array of visual noise, colours and figures contained within their own boxes. These colours are often garish and a little distorted, like in the way images appear through an LED screen or on a cheap phone. This further enhances the sense of being lost in the contained visual media.

​

McLean's work addresses the claustrophobia and confusion of these experiences with digital media and presents them through the mediative medium of oil painting.

​

@hectormclean

​