Irene Neal

The subject matter of my painting is freedom....allowing the beautiful colors of the acrylics and inks, often combined with acrylic gel, to give a natural vitality and flowing feeling of joyful discovery....
Living in Florida along Sykes Creek gives me a never ending realm of luminous formations of clouds, sparkling water, and fantastically beautiful birds , just to mention a few catalysts to spark my imagination.
I paint my large free form acrylic and gel paintings on the floor as Pollock did... using canvas as a base or Lexan plastic , and at times found objects.
For my works on paper I combine acrylics and inks, and work on a table top height....the inks have a marvelous range of saturated colors to choose from...and the swiftness of drying adds to the excitement of unexpected accidents and surprises to happen...it is a joyful and exhilarating experience....
And that is what I hope will be the response of those who see my work !
Donald Kuspit has written of my work, " Clement Greenberg (who actually critiqued my work at Anthony Caro's Triangle workshop back in 1985) would probably classify Neal's work with that of Van Gogh and Soutine."
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BA., Wilson College ,Chambersburg,Pa.1958School of Visual Arts,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,1976-77Memphis State University, Memphis, Tn. 1979-1980University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Ct.1982-1983Triangle Workshop,Pine Plains, NY, organized by Sir Anthony Caro,1985 Selected Solo Exhibitions The Planetarium of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1977Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pa.(catalog) 1986Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa. 1993Cooper Classics Collection, New York City,(catalog) 2000-2001Selected Group Exhibitions "New New Painters"(3 paintings in the permanent collection),National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (catalog)2002"New New Painters" at the 69th Regiment Armory, N.Y. (catalog) (over 240 paintings exhibited)2000"New New Painters" Hotel de Ville, Brussels, Belgium 2000The Flint Institute of Art, Flint Michigan (catalog) This show traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver CO. 1999"New New Painters", Galerie Piltzer, Paris, France 1996"New New Painting" Salandar-O'Reilly Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1994"Outside New York" University of Alberta, Canada,(catalog) 1990"New Directions in Abstractions", The Shippee Gallery, New York, N.Y.(catalog) 1986,

2014 The Fl3tcher Exhibit, Juror Elliott Earls, Oct15-Dec 3, Social and Politically Engaged
Art,Cranbrook Academy of Art, Johnson, City,TN
2014 Ashok Jain Gallery, New York, N.Y. curated by Richard Vaux, June 25-July 20
Bilhenry Gallery, Art Expo New York, Pier 94, April 4-6
2013 Bilhenry Gallery at the "Spectrum-Miami Venue (booth#513)” Art Basel, Dec. 4-8, Miami,
Fl Artifact, "Irene Neal" and "Matt Anzak", July 10-28, catalog essays by John Austin, N.Y, NY
Long Beach Island Foundation Art & Sciences, July 24-Aug 19, NJ
Marcel Paquet Gallery, Irene Neal, Lucy Baker, Amann, July, Biarritz, France

Irene Neal Studio
276 North Grove st
Merritt Is
Florida