Irene Neal Acrylic and Gel on Lexan "Wave"

Item Details

Irene Neal (American, b. 1938)
Wave, 2008
Acrylic and gel on Lexan
Signed and inscribed to the verso Irene Neal/ © ‘08 / “Wave’ / acrylic/gel on Lexan / 32′ × 16′
32.5’ W x 17’ H x 1’ D

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

An acrylic and gel composition on Lexan titled Wave by New New painter Irene Neal (b. 1938), created in 2008. This work features thick layers of acrylic and gel whereby the rhythms and relationships of the colors, shapes and forms are inspired by the emotions invoked by natural beauty. The spontaneous and free-form acrylic application allows the color to shape and give form to the composition. Neal is often noted as a “process painter” similar to process seen in Pollock’s drip phase. The work is signed and inscribed to the verso.

Irene Neal received her B.A at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1958. She also received education from the School of Visual Arts in Brazil (1976-77), Memphis State University (1979-80), and the University of Bridgeport (1982-83). She attend the Triangle Art Workshop in Pine Plains, NY in 1985. Member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978. Her applications of acrylic gel were at the fore front contemporary art and their free form abstraction inspired by Jackson Pollock, the Abstract Expressionists, and the Color Field Painters.

Condition

- crack across Lexan verso, causing bending; chips to Lexan verso; some chips and bending along composition edges.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC238-504