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Xanda McCagg

1959
United States

18 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

Chelsea

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Works by Xanda McCagg

Attrahere Noted

2000

Paintings , Oil

182.8 x 142.2 x 0.1cm

15249,00 €

Utterance

2019

Paintings , Oil

152.4 x 127 x 0.1cm

10026,00 €

Interior

2019

Paintings , Oil

76.2 x 61 x 0.1cm

4863,00 €

Threshold

2015

Paintings , Oil

139.7 x 101.6 x 0.1cm

10026,00 €

Between

2020

Paintings , Oil

30.1 x 30.1 x 0.1cm

1561,00 €

Dawn

2016

Paintings , Oil

152.4 x 127 x 0.1cm

10026,00 €

Approach

2022

Paintings , Oil

91.4 x 91.4 x 0.1cm

5764,00 €

Manifest

2018

Paintings , Oil

76.2 x 76.2cm

SOLD

16 RV

2020

Drawings , Watercolors

30.5 x 46cm

1100,00 €

8RV

2020

Drawings , Watercolors

30.5 x 46cm

1100,00 €

Xanda McCagg is an American abstract artist who lives and works in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. A classically trained painter, she has evolved into a style that abandons figuration in search of evoking the human essence. Education McCagg earned her BFA in Art Education from Boston University. She has also studied at the New York Studio School and the Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle, ME, and taught at the New School in New York and at the Bronx Museum. She has completed several fellowship and residencies, including at the Vermont Studio Center, The American Academy in Rome, Italy, The Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams MA, and at C.A.M.A.C in Marnay Sur Seine, France. Technique McCagg creates her abstract compositions using a mixture of oil, graphite and collage. Although she began her practice as a figurative painter, she has abandoned the figure in search of more intimate portrayals of the human essence. Nonetheless, her work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic vocabulary for her compositions. Integral to her process is an exploration of the small and large ways relationships can "shift." Through the expressive layering of thin and impasto color, and delicate and rough-hewn lines, McCagg works to articulate these often-subtle evolutions. Rather than planning precisely where her composition will lead her, she intuits throughout her process the minimum amount needed to manifest the essence of what she calls "the fine line between perception and imagination of these relationships." Inspiration McCagg is inspired by the human experience, in particular the behaviors that arise from, and correlate to human relationships. Her work is often informed by the larger systems that emerge out of those relationships. Cultural issues like poverty, government, religion and war, cultural phenomena like mythology, and dichotomies such as strength and weakness often manifest in her work on a human and intimate scale. Collections Work by Xanda McCagg is featured in the collections of many private individuals, as well as in the corporate collection of Alliance Capital Management. Exhibitions Xanda McCagg has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as in Budapest, Hungary and Paris, France.
Solo Exhibitions 2013 Studio 7D , New York City 2012 Galerie Charlot, Paris 2011 STANDPIPE Gallery, NYC “Xanda McCagg Paintings” March 17th - April 9th 2008 Art Gotham, New York, NY 200 0 A.I.R. Gallery Push Me Pull You New York 1999 The 2nd Annual West Chelsea Art Walk New York A.I.R. Galler y Generations II 1997 The Kent School Gallery Kent, CT 1996 Kenneth Winslow New York, NY 1990 Vis - a - Vis Gallery St. Clemens Church New York, NY 1989 Galleria Alexander Del Ray Beach, FL (solo)   Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 62nd Regional Exhibition, Mystic museum of Art, Mystic CT Juror Don Woodford, August 30-September 22nd  Made in Chelsea Group of 10 West Chelsea Artists, Agora Galery 530 West 25th St NYC, August 1-7  No Man’s Land: Woman and Abstraction, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT, June 1 July 7 Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC Group show Juror, Betty Cuningham, Jan.2-27 2017 Hostetler Gallery, Nantucket, MA Summer show 2016 Muse Gallery, May Oh io Group show The Painting Center, NYC June The Retrieval of the Beautiful Group show 2015 M17 Projects space , New London, CT Sept “ Unfinished Task” Muse Gallery, Hilton Head, SC 2014 Hostetler Gallery, Nantucket, MA 2012 Ground Arts, NYC Paper: Work Group Exhibition, curated by Kelly Worman 2011 POOL Art Fair, NYC Art 101, Brooklyn NY “NEW WORK” 2010 POOL Art Fair, Miami Florida Art 101 Miniatures , Brooklyn, NY SideShow Gallery It’s A Wonderful 10th Brooklyn, NY 2009 Mystic Art C enter 53rd Regional Juried Carolina Pedraza, juror, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum ArtBridge ArtBridge: First Exposure 2009, Public Art Piece New York, NY 2008 Art Gotham Painting (solo) New York, NY Stamford Art Association Faber Birren - National C olor Award Show, Stamford, CT Attleboro Arts Museum Out of the Blue - National Juried Exhibition, Attleboro, MA Abstract EXPOsure Best in Show Winner, July Exh ibition, abstractexposure.com Projekt30 A Glass Darkly - Juried Online Competition, project30.com 2007 Michael Ingbar Gallery New York, NY Mulry Fine Arts West Palm Beach, FL New Year – New Art 2006 Dana Hall School Between Generations, Wellesley, MA SideShow Gallery War is Over Brooklyn, NY 2004 A.I.R. Gallery Sketches New York, NY 2003 2B Gallery 2nd International Hanger Show Budapest, Hungary 2002 Washington Square East Galleries 25t Small Works Barbara Millstein, Curator Brooklyn Museum of Art Gallery 128 Pieces 5 Sylvia Netzer, Curator New York, NY 2001 Hungarian Consulate We Love Our Customers , New York, NY 2000 A.I.R. Gallery Push Me Pull You New York, NY (solo) Niack Small Matters New York, NY 1999 A.I.R. Gallery Generations II New York, NY Chelsea Studios Figuratively Speaking New York, NY Chamboultou Chamboultou ( online gallery) New York, NY 1998 Washington Square East Galleries 21st Small Works New York, NY 1997 The Kent School Gallery Kent, CT (solo) A.I.R. Gallery Generations New York, NY Brooklyn Brewery Small Statements Brooklyn, NY 1996 Kenneth Win slow Artists For Habitat New York, NY 1994 Alternative Space Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Art World, New York, NY The Otherwise Gallery Group Show Lansing, MI 1993 CORK GALLERY Four Artists Lincoln Center, New York, NY 1990 LEDO Gallery Transitio ns New York, NY (McCagg/Twombly) 1986 Gary Wortzel Fine Arts Figures and Faces Boston, MA