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When I was three years old, a fox raided the chicken coop on my parent’s farm. The site of the massacre was strewn with evidence of its swift violence. One particular bird had only been partially consumed – almost perfectly bisected in such a way that it’s entire reproductive system was revealed. I could see a series of stages beginning with a yolk and ending with a perfect, shelled egg within that body – fixed at the moment of death in pristine order. This visual experience represented a turning point in my relationship to the world. I now see it as my first clear instantiation that life, and nature underneath it, is a baroque, mysterious thing that hangs precariously on a framework of elegant reason.
- Elizabeth Neel
Elizabeth Neel’s paintings conceptualize…or maybe more accurately, formalize emotions.
In a way, the paintings are “formal introspections”
Different contextual frames clearly manifest themselves, yet as clear and dominant as those are, they are also elusive and successfully avoid being pinned down.
Her paintings have a strong sense of honesty and commitment to both intelligence and intuition.
The personal and the objective memory / experience, common knowledge…all are considered.
Life inside death, inflating the dead, blowing warm air into the dead, to see if they come to life…
Makes the work introspective, extrospective and contemporary.
The work challenges painting, bravely waking up the dead…by subject matter and by the actual (joyful) act of painting.
- Uri Aran
The synthesis of paint and idea is freshly at work in the
paintings of Elizabeth Neel. The paint becomes decay, violence, nature;
instead of describing, it simply IS. The oneness is appealing. Equally
appealing is the content-- exploration into our own violence,
contamination of nature, decay and death. Deep, layered meaning,
and the unselfconscious uniting of language and idea.
- pleiady.blogspot.com
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