Donna K. McGee

Artist statement:

I try to impart a meditative yet an exciting quality with my painting. I invite the viewer to let their eyes travel over the entire canvas, to be involved and to draw their own inspiration. Viewer reactions become part of my own muse. As I paint I do not start out with a clear vision, but I deliberate with each stroke and color. The surfaces’ initial calm betrays the possibility of implosion; that these facades will give way to the unknown beneath. I manipulate the acrylic paint to create simultaneous illusions of flatness and experience: colors grow into each other; planes are inscribed with abrasions and fissures. The paint evokes the surfaces marled by the passage of time.

The final product evolves until I think it is finished. Only then is it adorned with a title. It is my hope, that my paintings will evoke the viewer’s own memories and visions and she or he will apply their own titles and be able to say, “I’ve been here before.”

Artist and art educator, Donna K. McGee acquired a liberal Arts degree from Goddard College, Vermont, a Masters of Education from Pennsylvania State University and continues to study at the Yellow Barn Studio. McGee is a member of the Foundry Gallery, Women’s Art Exchange, and an abstract group, OUTLOUD. McGee’s work has been exhibited, won awards, and/or is in private collections in New York, Washington DC, Oregon, Maryland, Vermont, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.

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Contact Donna K. McGee at donna.mcgee@verizon.net