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Email PageWhat the Weather Brings
March 3, 2007- March 31, 2007
Reception: March 3, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Anne Neely
Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 W 25th St Anne Neely Floe (2006) |  Anne Neely Lethe (2006) |  Anne Neely Rill (2006) |
Lohin Geduld Gallery is proud to present our second exhibition of paintings by Anne Neely.
In this recent body of work entitled "What the Weather Brings", Anne Neely shifts her familiar vertical format to that of a horizontal. Her previous celestial explorations are now joined by earthly meditations, with gravity and flow becoming the dominant powers at work. The theme of water and its movement pervades these paintings. Meteorological disturbances cause precipitation and evaporation, as rivers and seas move above and below the horizon.
With sensuous passages of painterly invention Neely celebrates the geologic life force of the planet. Stacked horizontal bands of drips, blips, squiggles, and scrapes create an
ever-changing landscape of currents, showers, reflections, and spatial mirages. One seems able to calculate the barometric pressure from viewing these beautiful paintings. They are as specific and experiential as Bonnard’s vistas of southern France or Ferdinand Hodler’s Nordic landscapes, but also contain the giddy enthusiasm of unbridled abstract improvisation.
Often working on the coast of Maine, Neely is exposed to the infinite variety of visual phenomena associated with changing weather patterns. Generations of artists, from Hartley and Marin onward, have been inspired by this landscape. First hand knowledge of place gives Neely’s works authenticity, but it is her joyous visual language that invigorates and animates the marine format. These are paintings about the elements, the imagination, and the joy of belonging to the natural world.
Anne Neely’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and New England, as well as abroad. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in ArtNews, The New York Times, Art New England, The Boston Globe, and the New Art Examiner among other publications. A finalist in Painting for the Prix de Rome and the Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant, Neely is included in many private and museum collections including the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, The DeCordova Museum, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She teaches at Milton Academy where she holds the Lamont Teaching Chair in the Humanities. Her studio practice is in both Massachusetts and Maine. Lohin Geduld Gallery, Alpha Gallery in Boston, MA and Catherine Hammond Gallery in Cork, Ireland represent Anne Neely’s work.
Susan Stoops is currently the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Worchester Art Museum.
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