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Shawn Dulaney’s paintings are part of a landscape tradition that stretches back to the 19th Century when nature reflected the human condition, when artists mirrored our emotional states through natural atmospheres, wild, sensuous spaces, land and sea, mountains and rivers.
These paintings are not a representation of what Dulaney sees, rather they are an emotional response to the land, of the memory elicited from seeing, being connected to the energy and feeling of being part of a world that is immense, has gravity, holds within it the history of time. The New York Times said this about her work:
Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction…Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur. but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them.
This deep connection to the earth is reflected in the physicality of the painting the dripping, brushing, splashing, stroking, layering or her gliding of a squeegee across the panel. This physicality, this mark making, is imbued with an energy that seeks to embody nature, wants to make us feel, connect on an emotional level to the beauty that surrounds us, is omnipresent.
Dulaney is a painter who wishes to immerse us in the atmosphere of the natural world and take solace, to think, to reflect and contemplate that which we take for granted.
