By Patty Neal
Located in Hudson, NY
Taxi, 2019
Contemporary cityscape painting of New York City Yellow Taxi Cab and Empire State Building Skyline
12" X 12" x 2", oil on panel
This contemporary oil painting depicting a metropolitan view is the work of realist painter Patty Neal. Neal's work allows us to observe the hustle and bustle of urban life from a distance, often times through the window of a cab, a train, or a sliver of skyline peeking from between a tangle of buildings. In this work, the painting offers a view of the city as a taxi cab passes in the foreground. The bright yellow and orange cab compliments the sandy blues and grays of the city. Neal works highlight everyday city scenes, utilitarian infrastructure, and industrial or electrical apparatus.
Artist statement:
A life is an accumulation of experiences: visual, emotional and mental. By compartmentalizing these snippets of life we create boundaries. The focus of my work for many years has been the exploration of these various life aspects and how they are bound together or bound from each other. My process is often literally composed of boundaries. I make a painting by putting together multiple panels, or I segment a single panel into separate visual spaces. The works are made up of pieces or elements of city and landscape. While exploring the concepts of boundaries I play with visual “reality.” Sometimes I combine images that are upside down with those that are not and juxtapose images from different contexts. Literal boundaries, such as walls fences, expanses of water and highway median strips are also used. My intent is to invite viewers to look beyond these boundaries to see the possibilities of a connected whole.
About the artist:
Solo Exhibitions
2011 "Interior/Exterior", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2008 ”Landscape Revisited”, 1870 Gallery, Belmont
2005 Nomad Rug Gallery, San Francisco
2004 "Landscapes"@Klein's, San Francisco
2004 "Landscape Renewed," Space 743, San Francisco
2003 Exploding Head...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Neal Art