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| Prince @ Broadway (detail). 36" x 48". Oil and mixed media on wood panel |
Above Manhattan
If you are in New York this month and would like to see my new work I will be taking part in a three-person show at Stricoff Fine Art in Chelsea.
May 7th - 19th
Stricoff Fine Art
564 W 25th St. New York, NY 10001
Opening Reception: Thursday May 7th. 6-8pm
This new body of work explores the rooftops
of Manhattan. Mackey has made use of
Google Earth to explore the city, looking for perfect compositional
combinations of form and shadow - a keen eye and careful cropping reveal a
luxury of potential abstract paintings.
This work is a continuation of
Mackey’s interest in the color and texture found in the urban environment, as
presented at her solo show “Patterns in the City” in New York in 2013 (Stricoff
Fine Art). Only this time, instead of using her work to remind the viewer of
the beauty of things seen every day, she is showing us what remains mostly
unseen above street level.
Mackey’s creative process always
involves the build-up of several layers of paint and collage before the final
image is allowed to emerge. In this new body of work every painting contains
fragments of posters appropriated from the streets of Manhattan within the last
twelve months.
