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Maureen McQuillan
March 18 - April 17, 2004



Maureen McQuillan's new drawings refer to both the perceptual ambiguities of Op Art, and the biotechnical, virtual and artificial realities which are fast becoming a familiar part of everyday life. While her work evokes an optical complexity akin to micrographic images of natural phenomena, it is actually created by decidedly low-tech means. Her open-ended and repetitive process embeds the white ink in the glossy polymer to produce both sharp and nebulous marks. At times, the mysteriously convergent and divergent lines appear to lie on the surface of the paper, at others they twist and swell into knife-edges or waves of ink that emerge from the blackness of the backgrounds. Blobs and other imperfections are purposefully left on view. These visual "blips" in the seamlessness of the surface serve as indexical reminders of the process of their making. One procedural variation suggests another, and the images flow logically one from another as the process itself remains open to transformation and change.
 
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10031
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
11 1/2 X 12 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10032
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 3/8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10033
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
13 X 11 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10034
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10035
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 3/8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10036
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
11 1/2 X 12 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10036
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
11 1/2 X 12 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10039
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
11 1/4 X 13 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10038
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10040
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10041
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10042
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10044
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 1/2 X 15 1/4 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10043
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10045
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
11 1/2 X 12 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10047
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 X 8 1/4 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10046
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/4 X 10 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10048
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 x 8 1/4 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10049
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 1/8 x 8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10051
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/8 X 10 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10050
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 X 8 1/8 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10054
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 X 8 1/4 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10053
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 1/4 X 8 3/8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10052
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 1/4 X 8 1/4 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10055
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 1/4 X 8 1/4 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10056
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/8 X 10 1/8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10057
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/4 X 10 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10058
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
10 X 8 3/8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10059
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 3/8 X 10 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10061
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/4 X 10 1/8 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10060
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/4 X 10 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM100
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/4 X 10 1/8 inches
Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10065
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
12 X 11 1/2 inches
  Maureen McQuillan, Untitled MM10064
Untitled, 2003
Ink and acrylic polymer on paper
8 1/4 X 10 inches
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