Anne Neely — Water Stories: A Conversation in Paint and Sound
Museum of Science, Boston
July 2014 – January 2015
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| Beneath | Troubled Waters | |
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| Gush | Lost (River) | |
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| Alchemy Soup | Spill | |
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| Runoff | Splash | |
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| Offshore | Peak | |
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| Calving |
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| Blue | Bloom |
Within, Without, Trickle Drought
to enlarge.
Lohin Geduld Gallery, 531 West 25th Street, New York, NY
September 7 – October 8, 2011
Catalog with essay by Jonathan Franzen
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"Kettle Hole (2010–11) could be a forest under a night sky beyond a field of ice, or a bed of lake flora over another bed of limestone. Packets of color, formed by the knifing of white onto a fiendishly complicated background, cross the chilly scene. They look like coded messages, parcels en route to points east and west of the painting. The speeding, abstracted traffic brings Julie Mehretu to mind, though Neely does a more convincing job cohering the flurry of marks into a painting...
Neely never allows the sentiment behind a work to turn into sentiment in the work. She has felt the problem with great depth, yet at no expense to her artistry. Thus she can produce paintings like Tidal (2010), a fiery Divisionist landscape under a sweeping orange sky. Its summery dots could be joyful. Its blue mass in the distance could be a scorched, disappearing lake. The painting understates the message, keeping within the borders of art, where it excels."
—Franklin Einspruch, artcritical.com, October 6, 2011