MARCELYN MCNEIL: WORKS

This debut monograph from painter Marcelyn McNeil places her work within a critical context and embodies the artist's aesthetic principles and intuitive, considered practice. Resisting categorization, McNeil synthesizes different modes of abstraction while focusing on process. Her recent works celebrate the evocative power of color and simple, clear gestures. With an accompanying interview and essay that provide a framework for engaging with the work, this volume suggests new ways to view, question, and appreciate contemporary painting.

Marcelyn McNeil (b. 1965) creates both intimate- and large-scale oil abstractions that evolve primarily through pouring methods. Adopting a lyrical call-and-response attitude toward process, the artist uses multiple layers, stains, and bleeds of thinned pigment that fade into one another—suggesting a space that is both formed and unformed. McNeil's quietly subversive work experiments with illusion, perspective and color to create a place for unmediated introspection.

Artwork by Marcelyn McNeil
Text by Hesse McGraw
Interview with Alison Hearst
Hardcover
9.25 x 12 inches
208 pages / 90 images
ISBN: 9781942185987