Shawn Dulaney, Abstract Expressionist Virtues Landscape Venetian Plaster Painting Shawn Dulaney, c. 2010-2011

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Shawn Dulaney The Virtues IV Handmade paint on venetian plaster on paper, signed and titled verso 22 x 30 in. … Read more Shawn Dulaney The Virtues IV Handmade paint on venetian plaster on paper, signed and titled verso 22 x 30 in. (sheet), 28 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (frame). Shawn Dulaney’s paintings are layered constructions of color, spacious abstractions that read like cloud banks, flows of water, magnetic fields charged with monumental energy. Dulaney spent her childhood on a vast Colorado plateau looking west to the Rocky Mountains and has travelled widely, immersing herself in landscape. Her work captures the experience and feeling of place. Doug McClemont of ArtNews writes that Dulaney’s paintings “concern the earth, and the unyielding hand of nature”. Her work has been described by William Zimmer of The New York Times as belonging to “a very strong tradition, that of 19 th -century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states.” He says of her work, “Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction…Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur, but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them.” "The kind of painting to which Ms. Dulaney's work is most closely related, at least superficially, is the Mark Rothko branch of Abstract Expressionism, in which a sense of deep space is sought." Dulaney makes handmade paints consisting of acrylic medium and powdered pigments allowing her to get a wide range of saturations and transparencies as they spread out on Venetian plaster and linen over panel. “Her surfaces”, as described by Dominick Lombardi-also of The New York Times, are “exquisitely painted and a pleasure to see.” Dulaney continues to travel between New York, the American Southwest, and the United Kingdom, as well as having recently been awarded the Pink House Artist Residency on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. Her paintings capture the ephemeral and evoke the Celtic notion of a “thin place”, a place of energy where the veil between this world and the eternal is thin. A working artist for over 4 decades, Dulaney is represented by Sears Peyton Gallery, Weber Fine Art, Carrie Haddad Gallery and Beth Urdang Gallery. Exhibited widely, her paintings can be found in extensive public and private collections including those of the Hunterdon Museum of Art in NJ, the Venetia Resort in China, J Crew in NYC, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, talk-show host Conan O’Brien and musician Stuart Copeland. Her work has appeared in episodes of TV’s Enlightened, Portlandia and Sex & the City, and the films It’s Complicated (2009), Interview (2007) and John Wick 3 (2019). Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews and The New York Times, and has been featured in Parabola and New American Paintings. A contemporary, Post war American woman artist. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Select Group Exhibitions 2022 - Sears-Peyton Gallery, Playground, New York, NY 2022 - Weber Fine Arts, Summer Exhibition Renate Aller, Shawn Dulaney, Carin Riley, and Margaret Evangeline. 2022 - Beth Urdang Gallery, BLUE: Painting Photographs Prints & Sculpture, Wellesley, MA 2022 - Sears-Peyton Gallery, Spring Fling, New York, NY 2022 - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Bold Little Beauty, Hudson, NY Julia Whitney Barnes, Linda Newman Boughton, Sue Bryan, Shawn Dulaney, Susan Hope Fogel and Betsy Weis 2021 - Beth Urdang Gallery, BLUE: Paintings Photographs Prints, June Wellesley, MA 2021 - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Place as Memory, Hudson, NY Richard Britell, Sue Bryan, Shawn Dulaney, Susan Hope Fogel, Ricardo Mulero, Linda Newman Boughton, Leigh Palmer, and photographs by Eric Lindbloom 2021 - Weber Fine Art, Spring Exhibition Featuring Shawn Dulaney, Carin Riley, Robert Polidori and Chen Jiagang, 2020 - Weber Fine Art, Winter Exhibition Featuring Renate Aller, Shawn Dulaney, Carin Riley, and Margaret Evangeline, Greenwich, CT 2019 - Weber Fine Art, Winter Exhibition Featuring Alex Katz, Carin Riley, Shawn Dulaney, and Louise Fishman, 2009 - Weber Fine Art, with Hans Hoffman & Wolf Kahn, Scarsdale, NY 2006 - Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Inner Space, 4 artists referencing nature in landscapes exploring emotional terrain, 2005 - Weber Fine Art, Inspiration and Influence, Shawn Dulaney/Hans Hoffman, Paintings, Scarsdale, NY 1997 - Gallery at Hastings-On-Hudson, "Fresh/Fresco:The New Age of Fresco" 1996 - The Arvada Center for the Arts, "Eggs, Milk & Wax: Old techniques in New Paintings", Arvada, CO 1996 - Smack Mellon Studio, "Pattern and Relief", Brooklyn, NY 1995 - Robischon Gallery, "Revisiting the Past", Denver CO 1994 - Boston College Museum of Art, "Fresco: A Contemporary Perspective", Chestnut Hill, MA Publications - Architectural Digest, November 2022, Cover feature, 11/22 (Upcoming) – Reviews, New York By Doug McClemont, ARTnews, April 2012 pg. 111 – Works of Subtle Transcendence from a Master Artist, Parabola Magazine, Spring 2012 – H, C & G Hamptons Magazine, 2007 – Karan Ruhlen Gallery By Craig Smith, Pasatiempo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, May 2006 – Versatile with a Cross-over Style By Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times WE, April 2004 – From Different Palettes, Texture, Color and Light By Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times WE, April 2003 – Paint Layered Over Poetry By William Zimmer, The New York Times WE, May 2001 cover of Arts & Entertainment – New American Paintings #20, Open Studios Press, February 1999 See less