McLean Fahnestock seeks out footage, images, and items that expand our understanding of place and carry the character of exploration. McLean received a BFA from Middle Tennessee State University and MFA from California State University Long Beach. Her work has been exhibited and screened across the United States and Internationally at institutions such as the Aurora Picture Show and Menil Collection, Houston, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Black Mountain College Re{Happening}, North Carolina, Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria, The California Science Museum, Los Angeles, The British Library, London, and MOCA Hiroshima, Japan. Her work was selected for Off the Screen at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival. McLean is an Associate Professor at Austin Peay University in Clarksville, TN and keeps her studio in Nashville, TN.
McLean Fahnestock
Breathing in the Insubstantiation, December 2021, 2024
Archival pigment print, edition 5
17 x 22 inches
Breathing in the Insubstantiation, July 2020, 2024
Archival pigment print, edition 5
17" x 22 inches
“I came to video from sculpture instead of from film or photography, so while I do sometimes capture my own footage, I do a lot of seeking out of the right material and I make work by shaping that material. I end up with libraries of source material like other artists have different collections of paintbrushes, paint, wood, photopaper, film, or glazes.”
-- Mclean fahnestock