Amazing Isn't Enough Art Show @ RO2 Art, 02-11-12

A group exhibition exploring the relationship between societies expectations and the pressures of waking life, opens February 11. 2012 at RO2 Art in Downtown Dallas TX. The artists explore themes documenting the fragility between life and death, as well as the triumphs, desires and disasters that occur socially, worldly and personally. Amazing Isn’t Enough chronicles each artists perception of resistance and its relation to independence. Presented through a series of paintings, sculptures, new media, and installations, the exhibit will run through March 12. 2012, and will be viewable Thursday through Saturday 11am-7pm, and by appointment.

                                       

Brandon McLean is a Central Florida based mixed media artist, who creates multilayered paintings and installation works rooted heavily in the realms of nostalgia. Much of his work uses appropriated imagery, text, logos and stories from both popular culture as well as personal, autobiographical sources.
For Amazing Isn’t Enough, Brandon has created pieces that deal with societal pressures of manhood. Living up to an ideal set by a man’s father, following in his boot prints, transforming from a boy to accepting the responsibilities of a man. Topics such as being good enough, trying to be the best, competing, succeeding, having the most, and providing are just a few that will be explored though his work in the exhibition.