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| moderndallas.net Special “Eye” to Watch Marcelyn McNeil’s first solo in Dallas and at Conduit Gallery through July 2. Observing Marcelyn’s grouping of hard edge, happy paintings at the 2011 Texas Biennial followed a month later while attending her opening at Conduit convinced this trained tried and true “eye” of having found a new Texas talent. |
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| Speed, 2010, oil on panel, 71x74 inches |
| Like a Chameleon, 2011, oil on panel, 43x48 inches |
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| Standing out and capturing attention are the voluminous yet caressing sensual shapes rendered in a “punchy” but subdued, sophisticated color palette, living up to the artist’s wishes to possess a “strong personality.” The simple and bold purposefully floating shapes become almost sculptural dimensionally on a flat surface while relating to her associated playful three-dimensional works made out of paper in the show. |
| The liquidity of paint is expertly explored through the process of pouring multiple thin layers, editing, sanding and repour-ing allowing drips, soiling, and paint to flow beyond established boundaries. What results is a balance between the freedom-loving forms and establishing a lush ‘painterly’ ground ‘about paint.’ All of this can be accomplished by Marcelyn’s “confidence combined with moments of vulnerability.” |
| A Pound of Flesh and a Bit of Fooling Around, 2011, oil on panel, 43x48 inches |
| Marcelyn, born in 1965, now a Houstonite, received her MFA from the University of Illinois. |
| Conduit Gallery 1626 C Hi Line Drive. Dallas, TX 75207 214.939.0064 www.conduitgallery.com Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM |
