Ramp Painting #2
Artist:
Marcelyn McNeil
(American, born 1965)
Date: 2018
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
95 × 44 in. (241.3 × 111.8 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Ackerley Collection, Houston, Texas
Object number: 2020.7
Copyright: © Marcelyn McNeil
Published References
Hearst, A., McGraw, H. (Eds.). (2022). Plate 20. In Marcelyn McNeil: Works (pp. 60–63). Radius Books.
Bibliography:
Marcelyn McNeil
Label Text
Recalling the gestural, intuitive, and improvisational Color Field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928–2011) and Morris Louis (American, 1912–1962), Marcelyn McNeil embraces chance, gravity, and the viscosity of paint to create soft, sensuous, and changing forms that seem to move in and out of a landscape-like depth. She pours layers of thinned paint onto raw canvas that is gessoed on the back, allowing the pigment to slightly penetrate the surface of the canvas. There is an understated grace as shape and color slowly unfold, becoming gestures suspended in between sculptural and flat forms. Prior to committing her practice to painting, McNeil studied architecture for three years and her canvases reflect a deep knowledge of spatial concerns. Her shaped Ramp Paintings directly address the architecture of the space as well as the viewer’s own verticality. (Suzanne Weaver, 2020)
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