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"Flowers Partying"
22" x 28"
Mixed media on Paper, 2011 |
"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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Welcome
to Irene Neal's Online Gallery
Samba
Swing
2001
Acrylic on wood
62"x23"x3"
"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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Out
of the Chaos
2003
Acrylic
on plastic
28"x19"x1" |
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"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
The New New Painters Catalog
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Harvest
Swoon 1995
Acrylic on Wood 16"x24"x3" |
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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 |
Snailbird 2002
Acrylic on Canvas
30"x28"x3" |
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River's
Gold 2003
Acrylic on Wood 19"x27"x2" |
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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."
Marcel
Paquet, Irene Neal catalog, 2001 Coopers Classic Collection, New
York City
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Smoking
Gun II 2003
Acrylic on Canvas 20"x23"x2" |
Smoking
Gun I 2003
Acrylic on Canvas
52"x12"x3"
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"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."
Donald Kuspit, Irene Neal Catalog, 2001 Cooper Classics Collection,
New York City
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Purpello 2002
Acrylic on Canvas
20"x18"x5" |
Porgie 2002
Acrylic
on Wood
20"x32"x2" |
Private
Collection
Gossamer
Ghost 2002
Acrylic on Wood
14"x11"x1"
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