Switchback 13

Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite, charcoal, paint on traditional supports of canvas and paper. Each series explores a particular formal conception and are ongoing until the exploration of this idea feels complete. In this Switchback series, the artist worked with the painterly ovoid shape in a variously transparent or opaque ground. Her interest was in embedding the shape into a shifting plane. Using heightened color to move in and out of the picture plane almost like an image exposed on a photographic plate.