BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor:

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Description of Pictures: Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor
Curated by Mollie Berger Salah
November 9-December 15, 2019
Christine Neill is a nationally celebrated American artist whose work blends motifs of biological examination with visual processes and techniques. She has exhibited widely while influencing thousands of students over her long tenure as professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The effects of environmental changes on human life, and the reaction of the earth’s habitats to these threats underlie her investigations and images.
About the Curator:
Mollie Salah has worked in the Prints and Drawings department at the National Gallery since 2014. She has published essays on Kenneth Noland, Thomas Downing, and Mary Pinchot Meyer. Mollie’s research interests include artists who have lived and worked in Washington, DC, early twentieth century American landscape painting, and the cultural impact of the Cold War.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATNEI_191109_01.JPG: Flight Lines, 2012 Christine Neill
2. KATNEI_191109_07.JPG: Strangle Fig, 2019 Christine Neill
3. KATNEI_191109_12.JPG: Orpheus' Orchid, 2011 Christine Neill
4. KATNEI_191109_17.JPG: White Death, 2019 Christine Neill
5. KATNEI_191109_24.JPG: Aechemea Carcacas, 2008 Christine Neill
6. KATNEI_191109_28.JPG: Three Days, 2005 Christine Neill
7. KATNEI_191109_32.JPG: Circle Bract, 2011 Christine Neill
8. KATNEI_191109_36.JPG: The Other Side of Paradise, 2013 Christine Neill
9. KATNEI_191109_42.JPG: Lunaria Rings, 2011 Christine Neill
10. KATNEI_191109_45.JPG: Bromil Stripes, 2011 Christine Neill
11. KATNEI_191109_49.JPG: Just Weeds, 2014-2015 Christine Neill
12. KATNEI_191109_51.JPG: Night Wings, 2013 Christine Neill
13. KATNEI_191109_56.JPG: Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor Curated by Mollie Berger Salah
14. KATNEI_191109_58.JPG: Christine Neill's paintings are visual explorations of the natural world, which combine her two main interests: biology and art. Examinations of plant and occasionally insect life are captured in intimate, intricately drawn, painted, printed, and constructed views of the environment seen at ground level, as if from the point of view of the animals and insects that inhabit the spaces. She is particularly attuned to the biological cycle of plants and insects, opting for these subjects over other species, including people. Yet, humanity is indirectly the subject of her work, or rather, humanity's environmental impact on the planet. Stating that her work "notes intersections where environmental and anthropological worlds meet," Neill's art investigates a world that most people pass through without noticing the life forces contained within. Neill captures moments in time happening adjacent to us every day, but which go ignored. Climate change and the earth's response to environmental threats inform the artist's practice. Far from being purely documentary, Neill closely studies her subjects both outdoors and in her studio. Her work crosses between painting and printed image, reality and fantastical, but what remains constant are the relationships demonstrated between humans, the environment, and natural lifecycles. John Muir wrote "Most people are on the world, not in it..." Neill's works puts us firmly in the world. Mollie Berger Salah, Curator
15. KATNEI_191109_61.JPG: Balance of Colors, 2007 Christine Neill
16. KATNEI_191109_70.JPG: Mangrove Forest, 2017 Christine Neill
17. KATNEI_191109_75.JPG: Holey Leaves, Violet, 2019 Christine Neill
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