The Pleasures of Parallax
These paintings convey imminence, insist on transience, and are anchored by dynamic equilibrium.
-Stephen Maine, artist and writer


Statement:
Margaret Neill in an American abstract painter living in New York City. Energetic and contemplative, with drawing as a foundation, she creates in her work deeply embodied, multi layered geometries that mirror emotional and physical sensations of lived experience. Thru a process of drawing, erasure, scraping and repainting, from gesture into form, languorous shapes and linear shifting atmospheres arrive as if predetermined to the surface of her work. The constantly changing circumstances of this process over time begin to characterize a penetrating aliveness of being, a continuous flow of what is inherently inexplicable and connect the viewer to a universal rhythm that is continuous and ever present.

Bio:
Neill has an MFA degree from Brooklyn College where she studied with Lois Dodd and Alan D'Arcangelo soon after getting her undergraduate degree at Hiram College, where she grew up. She has shown her work in galleries and institutions across the US for over 30 years. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Sun. She has work in numerous public, private, and museum collections including, Yale University Art Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Pfizer, Wellington Management, The New York Public Library, Deloitte University, The Boston Medical Center, New York Public Library, The New School University, Hiram College, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Ernst & Young, among others.