Sue McNally featured in Certeza published by Evergreen Review

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Sue McNally featured in Certeza published by Evergreen Review.

Writer Mark Jobs wrote the story called “Certeza,” published in Evergreen Review in the spring/summer issue 2025, with six illustrated works by gallery artist Sue McNally. Mark Jacobs creates the world he has worked in and traveled through. As a Peace Corps volunteer and diplomat, he engaged with people in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Mark has published over 200 stories in magazines including The Hudson Review, The Atlantic, Playboy, The Baffler, and The Iowa Review. His seventh book, a novel, Memory Fallks, is upcoming from Regal House.

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THIS IS MY TUNE

August 16 – October 27, 2025

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Opening Reception:

Saturday, August 16, 4 – 6 PM

Artist’s Talk: 

Saturday, August 16, 4:30 PM

Location:

Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park

139 Saint-Gaudens Road, NH 03745

As the series evolved, so did my process. Over time, expressive interpretation replaced literal depiction. My focus shifted from geographic accuracy to memory, identity, and experience. The landscape remained the structure, but the act of painting itself began to lead . . . Each piece marks a moment in my practice that signifies a shift in how I approach making.

For more than thirty years, Sue McNally has been painting landscapes, usually multiple landscapes at a time, in an undertaking of discovery through an exploration of surface, tools, mark-making, and color. This Is My Tune features paintings created in the last decade that present an evolution in the artist’s focus and process. While the landscape of the United States is the dominant subject, these vibrant, large canvases reveal a shift from an emphasis on the specificity of location and a reliance on photographic reference material to the intuitive process of painting and exploration of materials.

Sue McNally is based in Newport, Rhode Island, with a creative practice spanning locations in Rhode Island and southeastern Utah. Raised in New England, she earned a BFA from the University of Rhode Island and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. McNally has held numerous artist residencies, including the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art, as well as residencies at Carrizozo AIR, Crater Lake National Park, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Her artwork is included in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Newport Art Museum, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the RISD Museum, the Tamarind Institute Archive, and the Worcester Art Museum. McNally is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery in New York.

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Sue McNally participates at the Arts Center at Duck Creek

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Sue McNally participates at the Arts Center at Duck Creek

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to present the Duck Creek Alumni Group Exhibition, a celebratory summer show featuring a dynamic group of artists who have contributed to the life and identity of Duck Creek since its founding. On view from June 14 through July 27, 2025, this expansive exhibition brings together works across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, highlighting the breadth of creative voices that continue to shape Duck Creek’s community-driven mission.

Gallery artist Sue McNally had a solo exhibition, Mining The Middle, August 26- October 8, 2023, https://www.duckcreekarts.org/sue-mcnally, and will participate in this group. https://www.duckcreekarts.org/acdc-alumni

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Where On Kawara constructs privacy through erasure and minimalism, Jaye Moon constructs it through obfuscation and code.  Both artists instrumentalize the mode of refusal, turning systems of language into architectures of protection.  Their works challenge the concept of communication, particularly in terms of personal or emotional meaning, which must be shielded, deferred, or encrypted.  In this sense, communication is not a conduit but a boundary.

PRIVATE frames privacy as an active aesthetic condition. Sustained through visual and linguistic constraints, Jaye Moon’s critical practice offers a poetics of discretion. PRIVATE values the careful and deliberate control of information, as well as resistance and the right to remain unread.

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