Whitney McVeigh
Whitney McVeigh, whose work you can see more of on Your Gallery, is currently exhibiting at the Charing X Gallery, on Charing Cross Road in London's West End. This new body of work consists of large-scale works on paper - some as large as 8 feet high - in which through a process of automatism, McVeigh pours paint onto the thick, fabric-like paper, then gently bends the paper allowing it to carve out the image.
Whitney McVeigh, who was born in New York in 1968 and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, had her first solo show at the Air Gallery in 2004 in London where she now lives. The exhibition consisted of paintings, drawings and sculpture, her handling of all three mediums suggesting a new force to be found in the figurative. There is an immediacy about her work - particularly pronounced in the new series - and a powerful sense of the freedom of the continuous line, a mark-making which is not preordained but open to the practical as well as emotional pulls of the moment. As McVeigh says, 'I am guided by immediate sensation and thought acting in direct response to what I see or feel. I am interested in the complexities of human life. I look at the internal, at the things that attach themselves to us not by choice but through patterns of living. The work is reflective of my state of mind therefore combining my own energy with that of my subject.'
Whitney McVeigh's exhibition at the Charing X Gallery is on until 11 November.
Whitney McVeigh
Until 11 November
Charing X Gallery
Charing Cross Road
London W1
Tel:+44 0207 287 1779
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