SUE MCNALLY

Lives and works in Newport, Rhode Island

ARTIST BIO

SUE MCNALLY (b. 1967) is a painter in Newport, RI, working in Rhode Island and southeast Utah. She grew up in New England and received a BFA from the University of Rhode Island in 1990 and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1995. McNally was the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. and an invited resident at Carrizozo AIR, New Mexico, McCanna House/North Dakota Museum of Art, Tamarind Institute, Carrizozo AIR, Crater Lake National Park, Two Coats of Paint, Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. Collections include the Addison Gallery of American Art, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the Tamarind Institute Archive, The Worcester Art Museum, The RISD Museum of Art, and The Newport Art Museum.

Sue McNally has painted landscapes for over 30 years. After decades of traveling the United States, she has developed a personal relationship with the American landscape, allowing her to loosen ties to traditional practices like plein-air painting. This transition empowered her to create a new approach to landscape painting, informed by the hierarchies of abstraction and focused on the process of depiction. McNally refers to the landscape as the substructure of her abstraction to determine which elements of the landscape get to live within the abstraction and which aspects of abstraction better depict the vitality of the landscape.

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