About the Artist - donna K. mcgee

BIO:

Donna K. McGee holds a Liberal Arts degree from Goddard College, a M.ED degree Pennsylvania State University and has written “The Whole Collage, an art book for aesthetic education” and “Creativity and The Child: Training Modules For Teacher.” In addition McGee has been the recipient of a prize in the 79th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg PA. She is a member of the Foundry Gallery, Women’s Art Exchange, and an abstract group, OUTLOUD. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, won awards, and has her work in private collections in New York City, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington DC.

Artist Statement:

I try to impart a meditative yet an exciting quality with my painting. I invite the viewer to let their eyes over the entire canvas, to be involved and draw their own inspiration. As I paint I do not start out with a clear vision, but I deliberate with each stroke and color. I am told that my works are paintings with a historical awareness. Using a sometimes bold but generally muted palette of earth and rust tones, my paintings evoke surfaces marked by the passing of time. I subvert the surface of the canvas and evoke crumbling, peeling, and fraying materials. Where different planes meet and surfaces seem scratched or rusted, my paintings inscribe abstract art in the cycles of history. The initial calm surfaces betray the possibility of implosion; that these facades will give way to the unknown beneath.

Contact Donna K. McGee at donna.mcgee@verizon.net