Up Close With Brandon Mclean

Posted Jul 2, 2009 by Angus Shafer

Updated Jul 2, 2009 at 09:01 AM

I met up with Brandon Mclean on Wednesday as he hung his installation “Logos Lore & More” at Urban Outfitter’s in Ybor City.

Brandon is a Florida native who now resides in Orlando. He travels the country as part of a team who builds wake-skate courses and when not out on the road he spends his time producing collage work and paintings.

His works consists of layering classic ad imagery of the 50’s and 60’s with photo transfers and paintings. Here are some words and photos from his installation process.

As I walked toward the window I saw Brandon drawing in a notebook. I thought he might be doing some last minute mapping out of his installation. He was actually drawing up this sign. “I messed up the sticker” I like when artist do not take themselves too seriously.

Brandon had two sheets of plywood worth of these little square pieces.

Some close up shots of the smaller squares.

Image boxes: There where numerous boxes like these overflowing with materials. Brandon gets his collage materials from about anywhere. But he just recently bought two filling cabinets from an art/junk sale that belonged to an illustrator. He said it was a treasure chest of imagery from the 30’s until the present.

Here is where the install was at when I had to take off…

b>...and here is how it looks completed from the inside…

b>...and from the outside.

Check out more of Brandon’s work at:
http://www.elus1v.com