Irene Neal is an 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]
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- ↑ "Irene Neal, About the Artist". The Art Guide. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ↑ Melanson, Jim (10 November 2001). "Artsmart". New York Daily News. p. 31 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Moffett, Kenworth W. "Irene Neal". Moffett's Artletter 2.0. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.