Meridith McNeal

Magical Things from Quarantine Salads and Goat Cheese, 2020

Watercolor on paper

12 x 12"

Value: $1200

Magical Things, my ongoing series of watercolors, venerate the easily overlooked objects of everyday life: paperback novels, a thermos, a pencil sharpener. Mundane objects become totems, Milagros-charms of mindfulness, imbued with a power greater than the sum of their parts. Several weeks ago, after NYC implemented mandatory stay-at-home, I began a trajectory of this work: Magical Things From Quarantine. Included in this series are portraits of objects that are most meaningful to me during this strange and disorienting time.

*This piece will be available for fair market value.

Artist Bio:

Meridith McNeal is a Brooklyn-based artist represented by Figureworks Gallery in NYC. She has been a frequent Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her work has received numerous awards, most recently Meridith was honored as a 2020 Artists of the Year by the Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France. Meridith regularly exhibits her artwork throughout the US and abroad. Her exhibition Graceful Confusion will be on view at Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Polignac, Venice, Italy in spring 2022.