6: Neo-Neel-Twist with Elizabeth Chapin
Elizabeth Chapin
Rashad Walters, Barneys NY, 4th Floor, 2016
Acrylic and gouache on canvas, w42" x h72"
Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX USA
Since I got all excited about the Neel yesterday, pretty much obliged to feature the above as the last Austin work, as the artist pretty clearly has Neel as an influence (or at least reference point). As the gallery's page says, it's all in the "direct gaze and...loose but expressive line", along with that really distinctive flat patchy bold color application.
Found this particular portrait in the Wally Workman Gallery. Chapin is a current Austin resident (and another acrylic artist!), and on the gallery's page for her you can take a virtual tour of her recent solo show, read a couple reviews, see an artist talk video etc to learn more about her body of work. Also for the record, Chapin usually focuses on subjects with a bit more of a Southern bent, but 'Barneys NY' is the one that was super prominent over the gallery stairway so here it is. (Also also, if you happen to have $7K+ laying around, it is still available. I myself suspect that I started doing art because I can't/could never afford works made by other people, which theory continues.)