Elizabeth Neel
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Elizabeth Neel is an American
artist based in New York.
Her biography includes solo exhibitions at Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert, Inc. (NY) 2005; Deitch Projects (NY) 2008; Monica De Cardenas Gallery (Milan) 2009; SculptureCenter (NY) 2010; Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (NY) 2011; Pilar Corrias Gallery (London) 2011. Her works have appeared in group exhibitions including Salon Nouveau (curated by Jasper Sharp), Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna; Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery
, London; “A Seer Out of Season”, On Stellar Rays, New York; Cave Painting (curated by Bob Nickas), New York; "Purity is a Myth", Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; “Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York”, The Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York, and Prague Biennial 5 (curated by Nicola Trezzi).
The author and critic John Reed describes Neel’s paintings as “boldly dismissive of distinctions between abstraction and representation. Landscape and figure grow out of abstraction, and at the same time, decay into abstraction—an abstraction that represents not so much the geometry of forms as the insanity of perceiving. In this new millennia of painting, Neel has distilled a methodology as fully cognizant of digital imagery and the position of the cinematic camera, as it is of the course of art history. “Every painting I make is a reference to every painting made before”, says Neel." [1]
In 2010, Fionn Meade curated a solo exhibition of Neel's work, entitled "Stick Season", at SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY). As described in the press release, "Elizabeth Neel's work relies on a controlled chaos that conflates a palimpsest-like understanding of imagery with a masterful facility for gestural mark making and layered abstraction. A new body of paintings on paper and sculptures extends this tension into three dimensions as found objects, natural artifacts, and studio detritus join with painterly technique to form a series of precarious assemblages. Incorporating organic and mechanistic references, Neel creates a hybrid iconography that tacks between mediums and moods. Resistant to facile representation, empirical observation and still life conventions mix with appropriated imagery, everyday objects, and abstraction in presenting a serial yet disjunctive ambience that is both playful and melancholy, archaic and spontaneous."[2]
Neel's work is included in the 2009 Phaidon book "Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting" by Bob Nickas.[3]
She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, Pilar Corrias Gallery in London, and Monica de Cardenas Gallery in Milan.
The iconoclastic
American
portrait painter Alice Neel
(1900–1984) was her grandmother.
United States
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artist based in New York.
Life and work
Elizabeth Neel received a BA from Brown University in 1997 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2007.Her biography includes solo exhibitions at Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert, Inc. (NY) 2005; Deitch Projects (NY) 2008; Monica De Cardenas Gallery (Milan) 2009; SculptureCenter (NY) 2010; Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (NY) 2011; Pilar Corrias Gallery (London) 2011. Her works have appeared in group exhibitions including Salon Nouveau (curated by Jasper Sharp), Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna; Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
, London; “A Seer Out of Season”, On Stellar Rays, New York; Cave Painting (curated by Bob Nickas), New York; "Purity is a Myth", Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; “Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York”, The Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York, and Prague Biennial 5 (curated by Nicola Trezzi).
The author and critic John Reed describes Neel’s paintings as “boldly dismissive of distinctions between abstraction and representation. Landscape and figure grow out of abstraction, and at the same time, decay into abstraction—an abstraction that represents not so much the geometry of forms as the insanity of perceiving. In this new millennia of painting, Neel has distilled a methodology as fully cognizant of digital imagery and the position of the cinematic camera, as it is of the course of art history. “Every painting I make is a reference to every painting made before”, says Neel." [1]
In 2010, Fionn Meade curated a solo exhibition of Neel's work, entitled "Stick Season", at SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY). As described in the press release, "Elizabeth Neel's work relies on a controlled chaos that conflates a palimpsest-like understanding of imagery with a masterful facility for gestural mark making and layered abstraction. A new body of paintings on paper and sculptures extends this tension into three dimensions as found objects, natural artifacts, and studio detritus join with painterly technique to form a series of precarious assemblages. Incorporating organic and mechanistic references, Neel creates a hybrid iconography that tacks between mediums and moods. Resistant to facile representation, empirical observation and still life conventions mix with appropriated imagery, everyday objects, and abstraction in presenting a serial yet disjunctive ambience that is both playful and melancholy, archaic and spontaneous."[2]
Neel's work is included in the 2009 Phaidon book "Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting" by Bob Nickas.[3]
She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, Pilar Corrias Gallery in London, and Monica de Cardenas Gallery in Milan.
The iconoclastic
Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes...
American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
portrait painter Alice Neel
Alice Neel
Alice Neel was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers...
(1900–1984) was her grandmother.
External links
- http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=73543
- http://nyccurrentseason.blogspot.com/2010/10/elizabeth-neels-stick-seaso-n-at.html
- http://www.pilarcorrias.com/#/artists
- http://deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=36
- http://www.monicadecardenas.com/artists_detail.php?id=52
- http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2008-elisabeth-neel-deitch-projects/1691
- http://www.artreview.com/forum/topic/show?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A941194
- http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=artisti_det&id_art=173&det=ok&nome_artista=NEEL-ELIZABETH
- Elizabeth Neel at the Saatchi Gallery