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"Flowers Partying" |
| "Top Tog" 22" x 28" Mixed media on Paper, 2011 |
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"Thunder Head" 22" x 28" Mixed media on Paper, 2011 |
| "I Spy" 22" x 28" Mixed media on Paper, 2011 |
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"Fido's In Love" 22" x 28" Mixed media on Paper, 2011 |
| "Motherhood" 22" x 28" Mixed media on Paper, 2011 |
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Samba
Swing
"What the paintings are about is where they come from-the inner world of emotions, feelings and intuitive response. The result is an art that has it's own nature, unique in spirit and form and capable of evoking that rare and exciting combination of revelation, discovery and personal connection with timeless and enduring quality." John B. Henry III Director of the Flint Institute of the Arts, 1999 The New New Painters Catalog
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American, b 1936 "In the paintings of Irene Neal, the canvases lose their flatness, their right-angled or otherwise precisely delimited form becoming instead shapeless pieces of colored material...this is an emphatic onslaught of color, yet these objects are not renditions in the sense received in art. In some ways, they are suggestive of jewelry . These are adornments for vain giants." Mylan Knizak, National Gallery Prague, 2002 |
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"Irene
Neal favors amorphous formats that resemble liquid drops, often
creating a sheen like that of semi-precious stones..." William Zimmer, New York Times, 1996 |
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"Irene
Neal's work is free formed internally and externally. Her paintings
grow and flourish with great vitality, never betrayed never denied.
They produce in the pure artifice of acrylic gel, the impression
of natural simplicity. The means are artificial but the effect
is of a fresh new world that she shares with us by making us realize
that we are always freer that we think." |
 Smoking Gun II 2003 Acrylic on Canvas 20"x23"x2" |
 Smoking Gun I 2003 Acrylic on Canvas 52"x12"x3" |
"These
new works extend expressionistic field painting into a new territory,
both by reason of their lush material and by their dramatic complexity.
There is a sense of constant self-transformitive process, indeed
of the protean metamorphosis. Neal brings together a seemingly
boundless expressionistic energy, which tends to surge beyond
the
canvas-but Neal's "canvas" is this crystallized painterly
surge-and the shaped canvas definitely fixes the work's limits
and informs it's structure..She seems to will the surge of colors-primary
colors and earth colors out if the surrounding blackness, and
emotional as well as aesthetic triumph of painting." |
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Purpello 2002 Acrylic on Canvas 20"x18"x5" |
 Porgie 2002 Acrylic on Wood 20"x32"x2" |
Freedom's Joy #1 22"x8" |
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 Private Collection Gossamer Ghost 2002 Acrylic on Wood 14"x11"x1" |
For
inquires and purchase information
Phone
321 507 4242
Email icneal@aol.com
260 Madrid Court
Merritt Island, FL 32953