Maureen McQuillan


Untitled, 1999, 
printer's ink and resin on paper
27 3/4" x 28"
Untitled, 1999, 
printer's ink and resin on paper
27 3/4" x 27"
Untitled, 1999, 
printer's ink and resin on paper
19" x 20"
Untitled, 1999, 
printer's ink and resin on paper
19 3/4" x 19 5/8"

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The long thin lines in these drawings are created one by one in a slow repetitive process. As I strech out the lines of ink and lay them down in wet resin, I have the (pointless) desire in mind to make them perfectly even and straight. The lines must also never break, touch or cross one another -- a simple operation but one requiring physical and mental concentration. After the sheet of paper is full of parallel lines, what was so carefully laid out is disrupted in different ways. Some of what appears to occur by chance is "programmed" into the work beforehand through minute adjustments to the process. The resulting patterns I create in these drawings suggest the electronic encodings of the world found in scientific images, while at the same time they track the conditions and events of their own production.


Maureen McQuillan
mcqjones@aol.com

Education
Columbia University, New York, NY, B.A. English, 1985
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, New York, NY, 1985-1988

Solo Exhibitions
1999 Drawings, JAMES GRAHAM & SONS, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000 Live from New York, HAINES GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
1999 Pattern,JAMES GRAHAM & SONS, New York, NY
Drawing,MARGARET THATCHER PROJECTS, New York, NY
The Xmas Project,KENT GALLERY, New York, NY
In Tense,VIDEOLAND ART SPACE, New York, NY
1998 Selections Fall '98,THE DRAWING CENTER, New York, NY
1997 Sweet and Low,SHERRY FRUMKIN GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
Better Color through Chemistry,THE ISLIP ART MUSEUM, Islip, NY
The Whole World in a Small Painting,TRANS HUDSON GALLERY, New York, NY
White Out,THE WORK SPACE, New York, NY
1996 1997,GALLERY 7, Hong Kong
Black, White & Blue,450 BROADWAY Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Staten Island Biennial,WEINGARTNER GALLERY, Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
1993 Summer Show,ROBERT MORRISON GALLERY, New York, NY
5,GALBREATH GALLERY, Lexington, Kentucky
1992 Travel & Leisure: Drawings by Artists on Vacation,FOUR WALLS, Brooklyn, NY
1990 Alumni Exhibition,NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL, New York, NY
Public Collections
Estee Lauder Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Awards/Residencies
1992 Artist's Residency, MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS, Austerlitz, NY
1987 JEFFREY GALLAGHER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, The New York Studio School
Selected Bibliography
Bonetti, David. "Gallery Watch: Driven to Dynamic Abstraction," San Francisco Examiner, January 28, 2000.
Hunt, David. Time Out New York, Reviews, "In Tense" at Videoland (color reproduction), Nov. 4-11, 1999.
Everett, Deborah. NY Arts Magazine Vol. 4, No. 7, "Pattern," July/August, 1999.
Freedman, Matt. Catalogue essay for Maureen McQuillan: Drawings at James Graham & Sons, May, 1999.
Everett, Deborah. NY Arts Magazine, "The Drawing Center - Selections Fall '98" October, 1998.
Harrison, Helen A. "Studies in Tone on Tone," The New York Times, August 31, 1997.
Schwabsky, Barry. White Out brochure, "Correct Me if I'm Wrong," (color reproduction), February, 1997.