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Xanda McCagg Paintings

American, b. 1959

Xanda McCagg is an American abstract artist who lives and works in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City. A classically trained painter, she has evolved into a style that abandons figuration in search of evoking the human essence. McCagg creates her abstract compositions using a mixture of oil, graphite and collage. Although she began her practice as a figurative painter, she has abandoned the figure in search of more intimate portrayals of the human essence. Rather than planning precisely where her composition will lead her, McCagg intuits throughout her process the minimum amount needed to manifest the essence of what she calls “the fine line between perception and imagination of these relationships.”

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Artist: Xanda McCagg
Approach (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Approach (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Hold-Ing (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Hold-Ing (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Dawn (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Dawn (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aest...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Interior (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Interior (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Approach (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Approach (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Between (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Between (Abstract painting) Oil on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic voca...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Utterance (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Utterance (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Threshold (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Threshold (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Attrahere Noted (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Attrahere Noted (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube. This method is especially safe for large wo...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Touched (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Touched (Abstract painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic vocab...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Imprint-ed (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Imprint-ed (Abstract painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic vo...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Notice-ing (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Notice-ing (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas. Unframed. This work is rooted in the human figure, but is abstracted. The forms could be construed as figures in space –s...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

16 RV (Abstract Drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
16 RV (Abstract drawing) Watercolor on paper. Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic vo...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

On Being Noted (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
On Being Noted (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas. Unframed. This work is part of McCagg “Portrait/Icon” series, an expansion of her current work depicting natural and ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

8 RV (Abstract Drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
8 RV (Abstract drawing) Watercolor on paper. Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic voc...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

6 RV (Abstract Drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
6 RV (Abstract drawing) Watercolor on paper. Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic voc...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

RV Look (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
RV Look (Abstract drawing) Watercolor on paper . Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

RV Float (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
RV Float (Abstract drawing) Watercolor on paper . Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aestheti...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

15 RV (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
15 RV (Abstract drawing) Watercolor on paper . Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic v...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Adjacent 7 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 7 (Abstract drawing) Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed. This piece is one of a group of works on paper made with paint sticks and pencil on paper that has been pri...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Pencil

Holding Thought (Abstract Painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Holding Thought (Abstract drawing) Oil and graphite on canvas. Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underl...
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2010s Abstract Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Adjacent 5 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 5 (Abstract drawing) Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed. This piece is one of a group of works on paper made with paint sticks and pencil on paper that has been pri...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Pencil

Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing) Pencil and paint stick on paper. This piece is one of a group of works on paper made with paint sticks and pencil on paper that has been primed with g...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Pencil

Blue white line (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Blue white line (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas. The artwork is not framed. In this painting, McCagg simplified the composition by playing with layering to create a ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing) Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed. This work on paper is about Minimalism and exploring minimalist ideas of small moments where one thing has ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Pencil

Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed. This work on paper is about Minimalism and exploring minimalist ideas of small moments where one thing has an effect on the whole. On a s...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Xanda McCagg Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Pencil

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Convey
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Oil and graphite on canvas. Convey is about the human experience, of being next to something, being alone, or being with someone very close but not touching. This is expressed usin...
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Convey
Convey
H 36.03 in W 36.03 in
Noticed (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Oil and graphite on canvas. Unframed. Noticed explores the fine line between figuration and abstraction. Articulating compositions with graphite lines and painted forms, McCagg exp...
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Proximity Noted
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Oil and graphite on canvas. This painting is about the interdependence of two primary forms. The interplay of the elements’ scale let McCagg develop the depth and power of the rela...
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Present
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Oil and graphite on canvas, This work is part of a series called Space interrupted. Conceptually, “Space interrupted” refers to structures and systems that connect and separate indi...
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Present
H 35.99 in W 35.99 in
Tear
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Tear
Tear
H 37.21 in W 37.21 in
Bare
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Pencil and oil stick on canvas - Unframed This small, minimalist painting is rooted in observations McCagg makes about people and nature. Each line and paint mark is expressive of ...
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Bare
Bare
H 12.01 in W 12.01 in
Behold
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Oil and graphite on canvas. Behold is from an ongoing series of paintings based on McCagg's perceptions about the human experience, of being next to something, being alone, or being...
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Behold
H 35.99 in W 35.99 in
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Articulations
Articulations
H 60.01 in W 50.01 in

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