Irene Neal

Irene Neal is an internationally exhibited American painter. She graduated from Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1958.[1] She was a member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett (1934 - 2016) in 1978,[2] contemporaneously with the further development of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden.[3] Kenworth Moffett suggested, "Irene Neal works in the tradition of large size, free form abstraction, originating with Jackson Pollock, the Abstract Expressionists, and the Color Field Painters".[4] Reviewing Neal's work for The New York Times, William Zimmer suggested, "Neal favors amorphous formats that resemble liquid drops, and often she creates a sheen like that of semi-precious stones."[5] Donald Kuspit, in reviewing Neal's paintings in 2021, suggested that in her paintings there is "fresh, newborn colors and exciting, impassioned rhythms of color—a glorious symphony of eternally fresh colors..."[6]

References
  1. "Irene Neal, About the Artist". The Art Guide. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  2. Melanson, Jim (10 November 2001). "Artsmart". New York Daily News. p. 31 – via ProQuest.
  3. "Sam Golden, Paintmaking Pioneer and Founder of Golden Artist Colors Passes Away at 82". Golden Paints. March 1998. Archived from the original on 17 April 2007.
  4. Moffett, Kenworth W. "Irene Neal". Moffett's Artletter 2.0. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  5. Zimmer, William (29 December 1995). "A Dozen 'New New' Painters And a Sculptor, Too". The New York Times. p. 15. ISSN 0362-4331 – via ProQuest.
  6. Kuspit, Donald (April 2021). "Donald Kuspit on Elated Abstraction: Irene Neal's Paintings". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
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