Author: David McGlynn

David McGlynn is an artist living and working in New York City and Beverly, MA. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1979.  Mr. McGlynn enjoys success as both a fine art photographer and as a professional commercial photographer. His specialty is photo collage, and he has been refining his unique style for the better part of three decades. He has shown his work at several group and solo shows, including the Alternative Museum, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Luring Augustine Gallery, the Neuberger Museum and Broadway Windows. His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Erie Art Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Forbes Gallery Collection, and various private collections. In addition, he has created large-scale works for permanent installation for a variety of clients, including Disney/ESPN Zone restaurants, Fox Network headquarters, and AT&T Corporate Headquarters.  His work has appeared in publications including WIRED, Newsweek, Time, Money, Forbes, Vibe, ESPN, New York Times, Traveler, Popular Science and Metropolitan Home. Corporate and advertising clients include Miller Brewing Company, ‘Absolut McGlynn’ for Absolut Vodka, Kodak Funsaver cameras, Compaq, American Express, Disney, Dime Bank, Polygram/Mercury Records, and the World Financial Center. Mr. McGlynn has received several awards including: American Photography Annual 7, 10, 11, 35; Society of Publication Designers Annual 18, 23, 27, 28 and 30; Graphis Poster and Graphis Digital. Portfolio spreads of his artwork have been published in: Life Magazine, Popular Photography, Idea (Japan), Photo Magazine (France), and Photo District News.

September 21, 2017

GLAMOUR CIBACHROME 1993
GLAMOUR CIBACHROME 1993

GLAMOUR CIBACHROME 1993 is a multiple image Cibachrome print made from color transaparency film images using various techniques during shooting, including image projection and light painting. Created for Glamour Magazine in 1993.

September 19, 2017

YELLOW DOG 1996-2017
YELLOW DOG 1995-2017

YELLOW DOG 1995-2017 started in 1995 as an analog photo collage contact print, shot on Ilford XP1 film with a Robot Royal Camera (for the small square format), and printed on chromogenic paper. It has since been reworked in Photoshop.

September 18, 2017

UNTITLED DYPTICH
UNTITLED DYPTICH

UNTITLED DYPTICH is part of a series of simple two-frame panoramas shot in 1986-88. Photographed with an Olympus OM-1 with a specially filed out back to eliminate the spacing between frames on the film. Each diptych is shot ‘live’ in the camera. Photographed with long exposures to create a painterly effect, using color negative film enlarged onto Chromogenic paper.

September 17, 2017

ALEX'S THING 1980
ALEX’S THING 1980

ALEX’S THING 1980 is a composite panoramic analog photo collage, printed as a contact sheet from color negatives onto chromogenic paper. Alex’s ‘Thing’ was a 30 foot long pillow created as an art project by the late, great Alex Bonziglia. Extending the full length in each 360 degree panel, using long exposures – you can see me clutching a bulb shutter and looking at wristwatch for time.  Photographed in our apartment in the East Village on 6th between A and B, in early bohemian art punk splendor: The cushionless sofa dragged in from the street, Television’s ‘Adventure’ in red vinyl on the turntable, bizarre art-damaged accoutrements hanging everywhere….

September 13, 2017

PEN FT STUDY 1985
PEN FT STUDY 1985

PEN FT STUDY 1985 is an analog photo collage shot on color film and enlarged onto chromogenic paper. This is a quick study made while fleshing out some ideas using an Olympus PEN FT half-frame camera. This image is a strip of film with four exposures shot in sequence, using long exposure times to create a painterly blur.