John Maclean's landscape paintings begin as photoreal recreations—postcards and collected imagery cropped and refined—and are then transformed into ghost images through repeated applications of watercolor, sanding, and varnishing. Fluorescent greens cut through mountain ranges. Ponds glitter in a frenzy of staccato brushstrokes. Working in rhythmic tandem with his filmmaking and music, Maclean treats painting as ritual: habitual generation that gives way to experimentation without restraint.
