Detail of Eucalypt Medusa, 2005 (Watercolor, 58" x 28.5") by Christine Neill
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October 04, 2005-See details below for two exhibitions at the Maryland Institute: Christine Neill: Paintings from the Digital Herbarium and the Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition.
MICA Alumna & Current Faculty Member Christine Neill Exhibits
Watercolor Prints
Christine Neill: Paintings from the Digital Herbarium runs Wednesday, October 26 - Sunday, November 13 in MICA's Pinkard Gallery
Reception: Friday, November 4 from 5 - 7 p.m.
An alumna of the Hoffberger School of Painting and current painting and drawing faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Christine Neill exhibits several prints involving watercolor paint and printing processes in a solo exhibition. Titled Christine Neill: Paintings from the Digital Herbarium, the exhibition runs Wednesday, October 26 - Sunday, November 13 in MICA's Pinkard Gallery located in the Bunting Center at 1401 West Mount Royal Avenue. A reception takes place on Friday, November 4 from 5 - 7 p.m. in conjunction with MICA's Alumni Homecoming Weekend.
According to Christine Neill, "this [exhibition] is an opportunity for me to exhibit works I might not be able to exhibit elsewhere. I'm showing a combination of watercolor paintings, digital prints, and a digital slide show. The images come from digital photos that I've taken in my gardens and arboretums I visit while traveling."
Neill spends summers in New England, most recently in New Hampshire, where she paints daily in a converted-barn studio. Her Baltimore City garden shares characteristics without duplicating those of her country gardens. Neill finds the two activities, planting and painting, support each other and influence the use of nature in her paintings and prints.
She said, "Eight years ago I began to make prints at Goya Girl Press.
More recently, encouraged by colleagues and administrators at MICA, I have worked with digital printing processes. I think for me what has been important about bringing together the digital printmaking technology and the painted watercolor is that the final work combines two different attitudes. The watercolors I am best known for are instinctual and from the gut: very spontaneous, very Kamikaze. If they are not successful, I destroy them. I cannot go back in and scrape them like oil paints and salvage or save them. So, often, I do more than one version of a similar subject. I am never sure how they are going to turn out; therefore, an immediate, emotional, psychological connection is my goal. With the digital, the process is much cooler."
A native of New England, Christine Neill came to Baltimore in 1969 to study painting with Grace Hartigan at MICA's Hoffberger School of Painting. After teaching at a variety of institutions, she returned to MICA in 1980. She currently resides in the Roland Park neighborhood of Baltimore.
For 30 years, Neill has had frequent solo shows on the east coast and has participated in national and international group and juried exhibitions. Gallery AA/B in Boston, Goya Contemporary in Baltimore, and Tokonoma Gallery in Great Barrington, Mass. represent her paintings and prints. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, among them Lockheed Martin, Marriott, Commercial Credit, and the Washington Hilton. She has received a Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship, a Baltimore City Arts Grant, a Mellon Arts Grant, and numerous MICA Faculty Development Grants.
More information about Christine Neill can be found at www.christineneill.com, designed by MICA graduate Abe Brewster.
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Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition showcases some of the best work produced by MICA students
Jurors are Alumni David Humphrey and Tonya Ingersol
The exhibition runs Friday, October 28 - Sunday, November 6 in Decker Gallery and Meyerhoff Gallery, with a Reception on Friday, November 4 from 5 - 7 p.m.
Maryland Institute College of Art's (MICA) annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition allows the public to view the College's "best of the best" undergraduate works from every department and class year. The exhibition runs Friday, October 28 - Sunday, November 6 in MICA's Decker Gallery and Meyerhoff Gallery, both located in the Fox Building at 1303 West Mount Royal Avenue. A reception takes place Friday, November 4 from 5 - 7 p.m. in conjunction with MICA's Alumni Homecoming Weekend.
During an intensive jury day less than a week before the exhibition is installed, work is selected in a wide array of media and disciplines, and the exhibition generally features artists from freshman through senior year. MICA alumni David Humphrey and Tonya Ingersol are the jurors for the 2005 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition.
A sculptor, painter, and video and installation, New York artist David Humphrey received his bachelor of fine arts degree from MICA in 1977 and master's degree from New York University in 1980. He has received two National Education Association fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship, among other awards. Humphrey has had solo exhibitions virtually every year since 1983, in galleries from New York City to San Francisco, and has participated in prestigious group exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Korea, and elsewhere. In addition, he has written extensively on art for exhibition catalogs; art periodicals such as Arts Magazine, Art Issues, and Flash Art; and M/E/A/N/I/N/G An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism. Several recent exhibitions curated by Humphrey are When I Think About Your I Touch Myself at the New York Academy of Art in 2004 and Life and Limb at Feigen Contemporary in New York in 2005.
A 2002 Hoffberger School of Painting graduate, Baltimore's Tonya Ingersol has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Texas. Most recently, her work was included in Athena's Daughters at Maryland Art Place, curated by Grace Hartigan. Her work is in private and public collections including the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (on loan to the Hippodrome Foundation, Inc. from a private collector) and New Enterprise Associates. Tonya Ingersol is a trustee at MICA and a committee member at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
All exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon - 5 p.m. For more information, call 410-225-2300 or visit www.mica.edu.
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Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), founded in 1826, is consistently ranked among the very top tier of visual arts colleges in the nation and enrolls approximately 1,500 undergraduate students and 200 graduate students from 49 states and 59 foreign countries. MICA offers programs of study leading to the BFA, MA, and MFA degrees, as well as post-baccalaureate certificate programs and a full slate of credit and noncredit courses for adults, college-bound students, and children. MICA is also recognized as an important cultural resource for the Baltimore/Washington region, sponsoring many public and community-outreach programs, including more than 100 exhibitions by students, faculty, and nationally and internationally known artists annually, as well artists' residencies, film series, lectures, readings, and performances. For more information, visit the MICA web site below.
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