Little Round Top, PA, 2024
Acrylic on canvas 103 x 74 inches
Chesapeake Storm, VA, 2014
Oil on canvas
72 x 96 inches
View from Far, 2024
Acrylic and pastel on Paper
22 x 30 inches
Delicate Balance, 2024
Acrylic and dry pigment on Paper
22 x 30 inches
Sue McNally
THIS IS MY TUNE
August 16 – October 27, 2025
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Opening Reception:
Saturday, August 16, 4 – 6 PM
Artist’s Talk:Â
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.
VIEW EXHIBITION: https://saint-gaudens.org/exhibition/sue-mcnally/
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