Jeanne Neal: Rearticulations - Opening Reception

110 North Akard Street,Dallas TX 75201

15 May, 2021

Description

Celebrate Neal's newest body of work, oils that float across baroque compositions with a contemporary urgency. Where: Ro2 Art Downtown 110 N. Akard St. Dallas, TX 75201 When: May 15 – June 17, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 15, 12-5 PM Dallas, March 2021 - Ro2 Art is proud to present Re-Articulation, a solo exhibition featuring new works by artist Jeanne Neal. The show will run from May 15 through June 17, 2021. The exhibition will open with a reception at Ro2 Art Downtown located at 110 N. Akard St, Dallas, TX and will take place from 12-5 PM. Neal’s paintings are non-objective, gestural works that create a visual language suggesting objects, figures, or patterns derived from nature. A brushstroke serves as a vine, a tendril, or petals bursting out from the picture plane. In composition, balance, and hue the works approach the baroque. They are ornate and weighty without losing a sense of lightness, the complex images seem to float on the substrate. Repetition and evolution are central to her practice. Many of these works were made during quarantine. Neal’s pieces find balance between the heavy hues and the frozen quickness of her brushwork. Artist Statement This body of work was produced during the pandemic, which has been a time of introspection and re-evaluation; a time of re-articulation that expanded and informed Neal’s way of seeing. The time of quarantine was no doubt, different for everyone, but for many of us resulted in, on various levels, a re-thinking of what we value and what we believe in. This new body of work reveals an oil painting process intuitive (based on speed of application) in nature but creates a precise, detailed rendered language of abstraction. One might say that the outside world has been re-interpreted or re-seen internally, resulting in familiar, yet at times, ambiguous images; a vision of re-articulation. Simultaneously abstract and photographic in nature, they occasionally imply recognizable images that refer to Steam Punk, Goya, Bosch, 19th century floral still life, or imagined but fully articulated objects and places. This ambiguous space provokes unanswered questions, of what we are seeing and what we believe in. About The Artist Jeanne Neal studied art history, receiving a BA in 1974 from Texas Christian University. She continued painting, maintaining a studio and studying under Bonnie Leibowitz. About Ro2 Art Ro2 Art is a contemporary fine art gallery with spaces in The Cedars Neighborhood and Downtown Dallas, representing a diverse group of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists – many with ties to the North Texas Region. The gallery, founded in 2010 by mother-and-son partners Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, regularly collaborates with organizations such as The MAC and Cedars Union, and maintains an exhibition program within the Magnolia Theatre at West Village and other satellite venues. Ro2 Art has been named Dallas Observer's Best Art Gallery and was presented with the 25th Annual Obelisk Award for small business by the North Texas Business Council for the Arts. The gallery’s art fair program has included the Dallas Art Fair, Texas Contemporary, and Art Aspen. More info: http://www.ro2art.com All works will be on view May 15, 2021 – June 17, 2021. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 15, 12-5 PM at Ro2 Art, located at 110 N Akard St, Dallas TX 75201. For more information, visit www.Ro2art.com