My area of interest is art as a life path, and the objects one makes (whatever they are) as a record to the future of what we are today. For myself, that has been more than sixty years of painting and drawing, printmaking, writing and publishing.

Bruce McGaw-Painter.  Born 1935, Berkeley, CA. 

Painting is one of the oldest of human activities and remains vital and essential.  Its wonder is related to the challenges and difficulties of its physical limitations, its constrained format and fixed facture, always totally present, a poetry of sight. Painting taps the deepest and most considered resources of its maker. McGaw continues to paint and draw in the studio he built in 1990. He continues to teach Drawing and Painting in the SFAI School of Studio Practice.

My work as a painter is an exploration of philo-spiritual aspects of landscape and nature based painting referring in particularly to Asian and Western traditions in relation to concepts of the abstract. This work is augmented by an increasing interest in the use of technological processes as a means by which (allied with painting) one might reveal that which lays beyond appearance alone.

In both my visual work and in my written commentaries, the focus is on satirizing the tragic consequences of blind faith placed in economies of narcissistic reward.