Maureen Gallace

Born 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut
Lives and Works in New York, New York

Maureen Gallace finds inspiration in the modest edifices and rural environs of her native New England. She paints intimate landscapes featuring serene, unpeopled houses. Deceptively effortless in their appearance, Gallace’s paintings take shape through careful observation and decisive omission. In this series of works, boxlike cottages are surrounded by bright hues of thriving summer greenery and a luminous pale sky. Visible brushstrokes, applied in wet-on-wet layers of oil paint, describe areas of color that appear infused with light. In some of her paintings, descriptive architectural details such as windows and doors are absent, leaving the viewer free to attach his or her own associations to the structure.

Read About the Artist

"Women's Work"
—T Magazine/The New York Times (February 2010)

"Maureen Gallace: New Paintings"
—Art Review (July 2009)

"Review: Maureen Gallace"
—Frieze (October 2006)

"Review: Maureen Gallace"
—Artforum (July 2006)

"Art in Review; Maureen Gallace"
—The New York Times (March 2003)

"Seen and not Seen"
—Frieze (March 2001)

"Art in Review; Maureen Gallace"
—The New York Times (October 1993)