Brian McClear at Art Walk

Brian McClear is a terrific representational oil painter who has an exhibition through the end of June at Art Walk, a gallery on the third floor of Hartford Public Library.

The exhibition has two parts.  One is a series of portraits of heavily tattooed subjects.

The second is a series of still lifes using found objects paired to show similarities.

I liked the tattooed subjects best.  Here are close-ups of parts of three portraits.
I have photographed many tattooed people.  I would like to run into these people with my camera.