SUE MCNALLY

October 31, 2024

Sue McNally Winter Walk, 2023 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 133 inches JBGSM#24103106 — Sue McNally
*Winter Walk*, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 133 inches
JBGSM#24103106

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, 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.

SUE MCNALLY

February - March, 2025

SUE MCNALLY

POETIC PROSE: SUE, LAURA, AND SALLY

Nov 7 - Dec 28, 2024

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POETIC PROSE: SUE, LAURA, AND SALLY

October 30, 2024

Sue McNally New Mexico Mountains, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 70 inches JBGSM#24101803 — Sue McNally
*New Mexico Mountains*, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 61 inches
JBGSM#24101803

Sue McNally Night Cholla, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 70 inches JBGSM#24101804 — Sue McNally
*Night Cholla*, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 61 inches
JBGSM#24101804

Laura Bell Shoreline/Umbrella, 2002 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches JBGLB#24101804 — Laura Bell
*Shoreline/Umbrella*, 2002
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
JBGLB#24101804

Laura Bell Phoenix, 2021 Oil on canvas 28 x 20 inches JBGLB#24101801 — Laura Bell
*Phoenix*, 2021
Oil on canvas
28 x 20 inches
JBGLB#24101801

Sally Egbert I Do, 2017 Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, spray paint, watercolor, hand-painted fabric on canvas 60 x 70 inches JBGSE#24101801 — Sally Egbert
*I Do*, 2017
Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, spray paint, watercolor, hand-painted fabric on canvas
60 x 70 inches
JBGSE#24101801

Sally Egbert Sky Flower, 2017 Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, spray paint, watercolor, hand-painted fabric on canvas 60 x 70 inches JBGSE#24101802 — Sally Egbert
*Sky Flower*, 2017
Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, spray paint, watercolor, hand-painted fabric on canvas
60 x 70 inches
JBGSE#24101802

POETIC PROSE

SUE, LAURA, and SALLY

November 7 – December 28, 2024

Laura Bell, Sally Egbert, Sue McNally

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Hannam

21-18 Hannam-daero 20-gil

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

South Korea 04419

Gangnam

20 Seolleung-ro 119-gil

Gangnam-gu, Seoul

South Korea, 06100

JENNIFER BAAHNG is pleased to announce POETIC PROSE: Sue, Laura, and Sally on view in Seoul from November 7 through December 28, 2024. The exhibition presents landscapes by notable contemporary artists Sue McNally, Laura Bell, and Sally Egbert. They carve their paths with clever takes on nature, combining authority with touches of femininity. Magical, explosive, and persuasive, these inquiries on nature pulsate with idiosyncrasies and inventiveness. The works infuse the exhibition with a theatrical flair, showcasing bursts of brilliance through a dynamic interplay of color and form with psychological depth and exquisite materials. The exhibition highlights the artists’ reflective moments and unexpected encounters with nature, evoking both exhilaration and tranquility while promoting pluralism and a sense of belonging.

Sue McNally draws inspiration from the perpetual struggle with nature, emphasizing that true understanding comes from observing and experiencing the natural world while trusting our instincts. Nature, as a painter’s subject, provides McNally an abstracting freedom that is fleeting and fugitive. Her works depict time, space, and memories, synthesizing her visual recollections into chromatic harmonies. She has painted landscapes for over 30 years, loosening her ties to traditional practices like plein-air painting. Informed by the hierarchies of abstraction and focused on the process of depiction, McNally determines which elements of the landscape should live in abstraction.

Laura Bell probes the nexus of nature and anthropogenic change. Deeply appreciative of the spontaneous and serendipitous, her work is inspired by the fantastical profusion and power of the wild world – chaotic landscapes born of our increasingly extreme face-offs with nature. Our unions and collisions are volatile, fracturing yet brimming with beauty. Bell investigates nature and life with unwavering honesty, through photo collages that serve as an entrance to a described moment. The call-and-response of the paint and the alchemy that happens on the canvas show a picture plane often in flux; the images may be a slow burn, but they are always the provocation for the brushstrokes around and over them.

Sally Egbert imbues the mundane with an uncanny atmosphere. Her work alludes to the untamed beauty of nature, lonely and sumptuous, with an exceptional sensitivity to minute nuances. The works are soft and muted, like shrouded morning light. They are observations from her daily surroundings, infused with ancient symbols and contemporary pep, and influenced by the palette of Giotto. In her paintings, Egbert aims for transparency, movement, and subtlety grounded in images of nature. She invites the viewer to contemplate and wander in the multi layers of applied paints before settling on a deliberate image.

POETIC PROSE: Sue, Laura, and Sally is an intense, poetic landscape of three perspectives on nature. Each artist stakes her claim on nature, and vigorously argues her position on the picture plane. The exhibition is a strikingly intimate and compelling display of landscapes that rediscovers nature in this significant and poignant era.

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SUE MCNALLY

January 31, 2025

SUE MCNALLY

February – March, 2025

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 and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. 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.

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