SALLY EGBERT

SALLY EGBERT

Sally Egbert

Sally Egbert (b. 1958) is a New York-based artist. For over three decades, she has been making paintings, drawings, and installations. Her work is primarily abstract, loosely inspired by natural observations. Egbert studied at SUNY, New Paltz. She is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Gottlieb Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She has shown nationally and internationally. Her work is in several collections, including the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; the Progressive Insurance Collection; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, gift of the Alex Katz Foundation. Reviewing Egbert’s work in Art in America, Eileen Myles notes, “Sally Egbert’s oil paintings are as hypnotic as aquariums…(her) chief concern seems to be pinpointing distinctions to name the moment in color and space.” Glenn O’Brien, in a catalogue essay, describes Egbert’s work: “These magical tableaux conjure dream states outside of experience and history, but they seem to evoke not what has happened, but what will happen–a balance of a state that we have experienced and one that we are moving toward with the attraction of sublime unknowns.” Sally is currently a studio member of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City.

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Sally Egbert on view at The Colby College Museum of Art

February 12, 2026 – May 31, 2026
Sally Egbert Floating Sky, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 34 x 47 inches

SALLY EGBERT

March, 2025

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

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HENRI MATISSE

Henri Matisse Femme au Chapeau, 1922 Oil on canvas 13.78 x 9. 6 inches

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CECILY BROWN

Cecily Brown Guys and Dolls, 1969 Oil on canvas 76 x 98 inches

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ROBERT MANGOLD

Robert Mangold 1/4 W Series, 1968 Acrylic, graphite on manganite 48 x 48 inches

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ROBERT MOTHERWELL

Robert Motherwell The Scillian Window, 1972 Oil on canvas 72 x 96 inches

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YOSHITOMO NARA

Yoshitomo Nara Winter Long, 1999 Acrylic, color pencil on paper 20 x 14.17 inches

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SHUSAKU ARAKAWA

Shusaku Arakawa No, Says the Signified, 1972 Acrylic on canvas 75 x 108 inches

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SUE MCNALLY

SUE MCNALLY

SUE MCNALLY

Lives and works in Newport, Rhode Island

ARTIST BIO

Sue McNally (b. 1967) is a painter based in Newport, Rhode Island, with a creative practice spanning locations in Rhode Island and southeastern Utah. Raised in New England, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1995. McNally has held prestigious residencies including the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence position at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. Her work has also been supported by residencies at Carrizozo AIR (New Mexico), McCanna House/North Dakota Museum of Art, Tamarind Institute, Crater Lake National Park, Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her artwork is in prominent public and private collections, such as the Addison Gallery of American Art, North Dakota Museum of Art, Tamarind Institute Archive, Worcester Art Museum, RISD Museum, and Newport Art Museum.

Sue McNally has painted landscapes for over 30 years. Through decades of travel and expeditions across the United States, she has developed a deep personal connection to the American landscape. Her work reflects a passionate intensity, vibrant expression, and luminous quality, all skillfully balanced with realism. Depicting mountains, wind, and water, with a delicate ferocity and a sense of playful disorder, she investigates the inherent shapes and proportions of the natural world. 

In 2010, Sue McNally embarked on an artistic endeavor, “This Land is My Land,” later named the States paintings. Reflecting her experiences and observations of the American landscape, this journey has produced over forty large-scale paintings and murals. It is ongoing, with each piece representing one of the fifty states. The works, incorporating specific and locatable on-site photographs, exemplify her meticulous attention to detail. They convey a sense of grandeur and the enduring beauty of the terrain, replicating impressions as if viewers are standing in her place. Aiming to further explore abstraction, around 2016 and 2017, these works rely on memory as their reference point. Distorted forms, measured shapes, and pictorial harmony express the internal structure of the landscape, showcasing an abstract and elusive quality. The State paintings encapsulate McNally’s aspiration to transform viewed vistas into landscape paintings through the interplay of forms and colors while appropriately scaling nature.

Since 2020, the work has displayed a richer undergrowth of imagery and a delicate transparency that authentically reflects interpretations of experiences rather than merely physical reality. It draws inspiration from Charles E. Burchfield’s romantic and fantastical delineations of nature and Philip Guston’s efforts to harmonize surrealism, abstraction, and figuration. This evolution has been challenging and invigorating. Rich in regal, seasonal, and phantasmagorical elements, the rebellious features unite different structures in the painted images.

Sue McNally is a painter of the scenic and a poet of visual prose. Her landscapes are hallucinatory, cryptic, and mesmerizing. Ghostly turquoise, magenta curtains, and phantasmal yellows in magnified natural forms evoke a striking sense of monumentality. Each mystical and transcendental palette is carefully chosen to meet the specific demands of the structures in the picture planes. They are the invented landscapes and the enduring myths of the terrain — embodiments of the American sublime immortalized in paint. They emphasize that the fleeting beauty of the American land, as it lives on in our minds, is worthy of our reverence. The most essential form of cultural literacy is to read our environment.

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Sue McNally featured in the Maier Museum of Art

October 19, 2025 - March 8, 2026
Sue McNally THIS IS MY TUNE

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THIS IS MY TUNE
August 16 - October 27, 2025
Sue McNally Jaye Moon Janet Taylor Pickett

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June 2025
Sue McNally My Winter Wall, 2025 Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

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February - March, 2025

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RU MARSHALL

Ru Marshall Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Ru Marshall

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

ARTIST BIO

Ru Marshall (b. 1960) is a nonbinary visual artist and writer. They have painted and employed photographic processes on mirrored surfaces for over twenty-five years—vinyl, glass, fabric, and Dibond. These reflective images shift and change depending on the position of the viewer and the quality of the light, capturing the fleeting and interactive nature of perception and the natural and urban landscape seen in passing from car and train windows. In Marshall’s most recent work, they explore our compromised experience of nature in a time of environmental catastrophe. For the last seven years, they have been developing an improvisational dance practice and recently completed work on Interlope, dance/video project which took place in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and which explored gender, the interaction between human and organic gestures, and our search for solace in a natural world we have failed to respect.

Marshall has had exhibitions of their visual work at Participant Inc., Triple Candie, The New Orlean Contemporary Arts Center, Thread Waxing Space, The Brooklyn Museum, Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas, The Drawing Center, Maryland Art Place, White Columns, and numerous other venues in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. They have received fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, The Banff Centre, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Marshall’s novel, A Separate Reality, a queer coming-of-age tale set in Phoenix, Arizona, was released by Carroll & Graf (2006) and nominated for a Lambda Book Award. American Trickster, their forthcoming biography of the faux anthropologist and cult leader Carlos Castaneda, will be released by Red Hen Press in 2026 and has been optioned for film/TV by Hybrid Cienma. They have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for their short fiction, appearing in N + 1 online, The Evergreen Review, The Barcelona Review, The Kenyon Review, Your Impossible Voice, Another Chicago Magazine, and numerous other publications. They attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated from Wesleyan University.

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CREDIT: A. Farm, Tra My Nguyen, Luke Schneider, Alec Phuoc Thuong

Performance, Presentation, & Discussion

by Ru Marshall and Lyon Nguyen

January 11, 2025, A. Farm in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

A. Farm presented “Performance, Presentation & Discussion,” featuring resident artist, gallery artist and writer Ru Marshall, and choreographer Lyon Nguyen, at Amanaki Saigon Boutique Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, on January 11, 2025.  This event was part of Ru’s ongoing project-in-progress, Interlope. Inspired in part by Argentine philosopher and dancer Marie Bardet’s “The Cultivation of Gestures,” Interlope investigates the meaning of gesture in visual arts and dance. It also explored how movement-quotidian and artistic-is informed by our relationship to nature — in particular, trees. There was a brief performance by Lyon Nguyen and a presentation of Ru Marshall’s drawings (based partly on their collaboration with Nguyen), followed by a discussion between the two artists

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TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE September 3 – November 2, 2024 HANNAM, SEOUL

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Sept 3 - Nov 2, 2024

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