Artist Statement:
"I paint with all that I am----that somehow the best of my strenghths will become visable to those who stand in front of my art -- so they, too, can feel in their soul, the beauty and greatness of this life."
Irene Neal
After graduating
from Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1958 she married
Paul Neal and for the next 16 years lived, worked and studied in Puerto
Rico, Brazil, Portugal, and Argentina. Currently Irene and her husband
enjoy living in the waterfront community of Merit Island, Florida where
her studio is located.
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Irene
has exhibited her works on an International level at numerous
museums and galleries some locations include: New York City, Paris,
Canada, Brazil, and at the Czech National Gallery in Prague.
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"She works in a tradition of large size freeform abstraction, originating with Jackson Pollock, the Abstract Expressionists, and the Color Field Painters. She reinterprets this tradition by means of a new, state -of the-art, acrylic paints and gels, which have undergone an extraordinary development in recent years. In these free form abstract paintings, Irene Neal aspires to the brillant accident, the miraculous frozen moment in the flow of paint. Working experimentally with new materials, she has had to improvise fer own unique "craft:" ways of organizing herself to paint; mixing and applying colors so as to keep them clear and vibrant....whether on canvas, wood, plastic or paper, Neal shows herself to be a master painter."
Kenworth W.
Moffett, Irene Neal catalog, 2001
Coopers Classics Collection, New York City
"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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Posthistoric Pelican 2003 Acrylic on Lexan 53"x25" |