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Email PageIn Particular
September 6, 2007- October 6, 2007
Reception: September 6, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Meg Shields
Fischbach Gallery
210 11th Ave Meg Shields Memory (2007) |
While Shields’ paintings are not symbolic, she frequently places isolated objects on flat fields of rhythmically patterned cloth, suggesting an intuitive sense of classically balanced composition. Working on this series intermittently since 2005, the paintings of In Particular, incorporate a unique array of colorful objects. In each piece, the placement and choice of these objects create relationships which are active and challenging. In Particular is an experiment in sustained attention; in the process of stating the exact things which were there to see the inevitable transformation. “I hope to capture in action the imagination as it invents reality.”
Ultimately, Shields is not interested in naturalism, but, in her own words, "contrived compositions that have real things in them—like Marianne Moore's description of poems as artificial gardens with real toads in them. I am moved by the actual, rather than the context in which the actual appears. The assumption that painting is only about seeing the effect of colored arrangements on the eye is one I don't accept. I am interested in seeing what I choose to place right in front of me."
Born in 1953 near Boston, Shields currently resides in Cape Cod. She received her M.A. in English literature from the University of Dublin, and later studied at the Massachusetts College of Art.
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