Marcelyn McNeil creates both intimate- and large-scale oil abstractions that evolve primarily through pouring methods. Adopting a lyrical call-and-response attitude toward process, she uses multiple layers, stains, and bleeds of thinned pigment that fade into one another—suggesting a space that is both formed and unformed. McNeil’s quietly subversive work experiments with illusion, perspective, and color to create a place for unmediated introspection.
Born in Kansas Marcelyn McNeil earned her MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Solo exhibitions of her work have taken place at Conduit Gallery in Dallas; Lawndale Art Center in Houston; Galveston Art Center; Kathryn Markel in New York, NY; Robischon in Denver; and Central Features in Albuquerque; among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Antonio Museum of Art; Denny Gallery in New York, NY; Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles; McClain Gallery in Houston; and Joymore Gallery in Chicago; among others. McNeil’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the San Antonio Museum of Art. A monograph, Marcelyn McNeil Works, was published by Radius Books in 2022. Included in the book are writings by Hesse McGraw and Alison Hearst, curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. McNeil currently lives and works in Dallas.
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