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Margaret Neill

1956
(USA) AMERICAN

Margaret Neill 是來自俄亥俄州的美國抽象藝術家,使用多種媒介創作受曲線及非具象形狀和形式啟發的抒情、手勢式圖像。她現居並工作於紐約布魯克林。

教育背景

Neill 於1978年在俄亥俄州海勒姆的海勒姆學院獲得文學士學位。1984年,她在紐約布魯克林學院取得繪畫藝術碩士學位。

技法

Neill 使用多種媒介在畫布、亞麻布和紙張上創作,包括石墨、彩色鉛筆、炭筆和油漆。她的創作過程涉及對表面的直覺性標記,形成連續交織的線條和曲折的幾何形態。
作品參考了抒情抽象的多種特質。她的創作過程是本能且非具象的。作品超越了客觀詮釋,反而邀請觀者透過作品參與探索藝術家與時間及空間的關係。作為與特定地點瞬間的手勢互動,Neill 的作品幾乎成為替代記憶,是空間與時間瞬間的感官遺物。

靈感

Neill 的靈感來自曲線與線條的流動幾何特質,特別是大地與天空的自然特質如何與物體及建築的城市元素交織。作品部分受人類與自然現象中可觀察到的模式啟發,如建築、地圖和天氣模式,作品源自短暫且直覺的狀態,呈現出複雜、寧靜與流動感的物件與圖像。

藝術家聲明

「在我的作品中,我在一個既是理智又是物理的空間中循環,這空間與城市及自然世界皆有關聯。在如今日益快速變遷的時代,這些作品尋求一種安靜、持續且充滿生命的存在方式。...

我的繪畫源自與材料的互動,既不關注敘事也不關注圖像,而是努力描述一種存在狀態。色彩與形式是我近期作品的主題,它們在繪畫過程中的論述與物理性中相互轉換。我喜歡玩味速度、運動與尺度的概念。我試圖探索融合時間與空間的物質與形而上世界的轉化特性。

我對於我們乘坐汽車、巴士或火車時快速掠過的景觀深感著迷。各種交通方式讓我們感覺一段時間內如同失重,輕鬆穿越空間。這不亞於鸕鶿或蒼鷺輕鬆穿梭於空氣與水中。繪畫讓我能喚起一種體驗,與這些概念相互呼應。」

收藏

Neill 的作品被多家博物館及國際與企業收藏,包括現代藝術博物館圖書館、洛杉磯的 Martin Brest 及美國國務院。

展覽

Neill 曾在全國多個博物館和畫廊舉辦多場個展及聯展,廣泛展出她的繪畫與素描作品。
Neill 的作品廣泛刊載於各類出版物,並曾在部落格、電視節目、廣播節目中亮相,且媒體對她有大量報導。

畫廊

Kenise Barnes Fine Art,康乃狄克州肯特
Manolis Projects,佛羅里達州邁阿密

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Education

1984 MFA in Painting, Brooklyn College, NY
1978 BA, Hiram College, OH

One/Two Person Exhibitions

2017 Transcription, One Person Show, Pacific Design Center, LA (thru 3/18)
2014 Undulation, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY (Two Person)
2014 New Work by Gallery Artists, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY (Four Person)
2014 Walk the Line, M & E Gallery, NYC (Four Person)
2013 Aligned, DM Contemporary, NYC (Four Person)
2013 Drawn to Beauty, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY (Four Person)
2009 Renewable Flow, Charcoal Drawings, Pelavin Projects, NY (One Person)
2008 Gelbke Fine Arts Center, Hiram College, OH (One Person)
2008 Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ (One Person)
2007 Circuit, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY (One Person)
2005 Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY (One Person)
2003 Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY (One Person)
2001 Taking Notes, Installation, Drawing, Video, and Talk, Brooklyn Public Library, NY (One Person)
2000 Works on Paper, Frohring Art Center, Hiram College, OH (One Person)
1997 Paintings From Brooklyn, 350 Third Ave., NY (One Person)
1994 Fixed in Time, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (One Person)
1992 Kent State University, Trumbull Branch, OH (One Person)
1984 Frohring Art Center, Hiram College, OH (One Person)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Women’s History Month Invitational, VanDeb Editions, curated by Julie Gross (Six Person)
2017 The Summer Show, DM Contemporary, NY
2016 Pigment and Paper, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY
2016 Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Art du Jour, 490 Atlantic, NY
2015 Season X, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College
2015 25th Anniversary Show, Kentler International Drawing Space
2015 Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Backroom
2014 New Work by Gallery Artists, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY
2014 American Abstract Artists, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn
2014 Painting Center, 21st Anniversary Show
2013 Summer Show, DM Contemporary, NYC
2013 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, K. Imperial Fine Art, CA
2013 Lois Dodd: My Students, The Firehouse Center, Damariscotta, ME
2013 Drawing the Mind, Concordia College, Wall Drawing, NY
2013 Icing on the Cake, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY
2011 Wall Drawing, “A Field Guide to Getting Lost,” Masters & Pelavin, NY
2011 Black & White: Extreme Value, NYIT Gallery 61, NY
2011 Drawing and Cognition, Wall Drawing: DRIVER, Columbia University, Macy Gallery
2010 United States Arts in Embassies Program, Republic of Panama, US Dept. of State
2010 Small Works Invitational, The Painting Center, NY
2010 Twelve Rooms with a View, Nu Hotel, Pelavin Fine Art, NY
2010 Black and White, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2010 Prints and Drawings, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY
2009 Partners in Life and Art, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
2009 Staying Alive, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2009 Sharazade, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2008 No Chromophobia, OK Harris, NY
2008 Friends, Invitational, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY
2008 Color Key, Painting Center, Patrick Webb, curator, NY
2008 Eye for the Here and Now, Colby College Museum of Art, ME
2008 Peace, Sideshow Gallery, NY
2008 Spectrum, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY (Panelist)
2007 Punch Bowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2007 Pelavin Editions, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY
2007 25th Anniversary Show, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY
2007 Pink, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA
2006 Mischief, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Library Show; Travel Show, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2006 War Is Over, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Anniversary Show, Invitational, Painting Center, NY
2005 Brooklyn College 75th Anniversary Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Scope Hamptons, Metaphor Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
2005 Soho Myriad, Three-Person Show, Atlanta, GA
2005 Metaphor Contemporary Art, The Road So Far, Brooklyn, NY
2004 New Prints 2004/Spring, International Print Center NY, Barry Walker, curator
2004 Abstract Identity, Pelham Art Center, NY (Panelist)
2004 Where the Island Begins, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, NY (Catalog)
2004 The Baltimore Fair of Contemporary Prints, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
2004 Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, NY
2004 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Benefit Show, World Financial Center, NY
2004 Print National, Lancaster Museum of Art, PA, Mark Pascal, Juror
2004 Nature Abstracted, Painting Center, NY, Emily Berger, curator
2003 Clean Slate, Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2003 Affordable Art Fair, Pier 92, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, NY
2002 Representing Nature, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, IL
2002 Affordable Art Fair, Pier 92, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2002 Contemporary Works on Paper, Colby College Museum of Art, ME (Catalog)
2002 Touch, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2002 Paper, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY
2002 4Sight, From Realism to Abstraction, Kentler International Drawing Space, NY
2002 Collage, Frohring Art Center, Hiram College, OH
2001 Daily Drawings, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2001 The Codes and the Signs, Monastery Plazy, Czech Republic
2000 Brooklyn on the Block, Curated by David Konigsberg, RI
2000 Red Hook 8, Curated by Florence Neal and Sonny Balzano, Kentler Gallery, NY
1999 Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, NY
1999 Brooklyn Impressions, Small Press Print Studios, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Works on Paper, John Ittmann, Juror, Perkins Center for the Arts, NJ
1996 3 Artists From Brooklyn, Studio 600-Hermit, Praha, Czech Republic
1996 Small Works Exhibition, Alan Hacklin, Juror, Schoharie County Arts Council, NY
1996 About Time, Works on Paper, Kent State University, OH
1996 Connections, Exhibition of Prints, Kendal at Oberlin Gallery, OH
1995 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Works on Consignment, OH
1995 Page-22, Artists Books, 540 Broadway Gallery, NY
1993 To Be, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
1986 Hiram College Alumni Invitational, Catalog, OH
1985 Invitational, Hunterdon Art Center, Sinikka Lane, Curator, NJ
1985 Small Works, Washington Sq. East Galleries, Allen Stone, Juror, NY
1985 4th Annual Miniature Competition, Dore Ashton, Juror, BACA, NY
1984 Paintings and Pastels, Thirty-First Annual Juried Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, NJ

Selected Collections

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Art in Embassies Collection, Dept. of State, Washington, DC
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Modern Art, Library, NY, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Library, Brooklyn, NY
The New School University, NY, NY
Hiram College, Hiram, OH
Colby College Museum of Art, ME
Lowes Corp, Philadelphia, PA
Sofitel, Philadelphia, PA
Wilmor Hale Law Firm, Boston, MA
Pfizer Corporation, NY
Robeco Investment Management, Boston, MA
100 Barclay, NY, NY
Memorial Sloan Kettering, Josie Robertson Surgery Center
Alan Chassanoff Collection
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ernst & Young, NY, NY
Brigham & Women’s/Mass. Gen. Health Care Center, Boston, MA
Boston Medical/Shapiro Center, Boston, MA
Goodwin Procter Law Firm, Boston, MA
Joel McHale, Private Collection
Martin Brest, Private Collection
Deloitte University, TX
Nutter McLennon and Fish Law Firm, Boston, MA

Commissions/Awards

2016 Commission, Karen Imperial Fine Art
2016 Commission, L’Ermitage, LA
2009 Commission, City Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 Commission, Patty Evert Fine Art, CA
2008 Finalist, MTA Arts For Transit, NYC
2011 Finalist, MTA Arts For Transit, NYC
2007 Commission, Metropolitan Hotel, NY
2006 Commission, Marriott Hotel, Atlanta, GA
2005 Commission, Hilton Hotel, NJ
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