“Crashing Waves, Late September” (2023).
"The English landscape painter John Constable died roughly 200 years ago, but lightning-fast brushstrokes that echo the agitated clouds and roiling waves he depicted keep his paintings looking astoundingly fresh compared to the varnished stillness of many of his compatriots’ canvases. An ocean away and a couple of centuries later, the pounding surf in Maureen Gallace’s 'Crashing Wave, Late September' (2023) conjures a similar immediacy, but one that has also subsumed the frissons of modernity — all those revolutions of expression and abstraction that have continually rejuvenated the bloodline of an art form that stretches back tens of millennia to pigment on cave walls. In the 1950s, Jackson Pollock looked out at the Atlantic from the far end of Long Island; Gallace (born 1960) surveys the expanse of Long Island Sound from Connecticut. Pollock worked at mural scale, Gallace on panels that are often less than a foot across, and yet both artists’ compositions pulse with visceral gestures constrained only by the frame edges.
"Summer Porch" (2023)
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