McGarren Flack Paintings

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a pineapple frosted cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he draw...

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a frosted snickerdoodle cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he ...

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a decadent chocolate mint cupcake on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, ...

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a twix mix cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he draws every p...

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Artist McGarren Flack focuses on a single cherry cupcake on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he dra...

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a chocolate frosted cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he draw...

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A worn brick sits dramatically in the middle of an abstracted space. Rendered in detailed layers of coral, brown, blue, turquoise, white, and yellow. "I found...

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A time-worn brick faces diagonally in the middle of the composition. Thick impasto layers of red, brown, green, blue, and yellow give the subject a tactile qu...

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A classically rendered portrait of a young man, framed with engaging expressionist brushwork. "The model had stellar masculine features to be captured with pa...

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"The painting expresses 12 different models in different poses stacked together creating an intricate design of figures," says artist McGarren Flack. Female n...

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"This painting is of a volcano cooled by a desert storm," says artist McGarren Flack. Thick dark clouds punctuated with electric light hover over the expansiv...

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A calm and quiet winter view of the Cedar Mountains in Utah. The final rays of warm pink light rest on the tops of the pine trees, complementing the cold blue landscape. A soft curving path of yellow grass peaks through the snow creating an inviting trail to the horizon.

About the Artist
Utah-based artist McGarren Flack captures everyday moments of human vulnerability through painterly realism. His career as a paramedic brings him face-to-face with people at their most helpless moments, which inspired him to contemplate the nature of being vulnerable. Whether sitting alone in a cafe or unknowingly dropping a possession on the street, the human condition is always subject to powerlessness. “It is important for me to share these scenes because I believe it will help the viewer connect to humanity,” says McGarren. “There is no escaping the feeling of vulnerability; it is blind to skin color, social status, and age.”

Words that describe this painting: snow, cold, landscape, trees, winter, Utah, peaceful, calm, quiet, sunset, dusk, evening, Cedar Mountains, pine trees, impressionism, landscape, representational, oil painting, blue

Snow Cedar Mountain Range...

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I was striving to paint a figure on a highly textured surface. I really like the variation in mark making and the glow of her hair against the darkness. This...