Beth Urdang Gallery | Early Summer Selections

Shawn Dulaney’s paintings are layered constructions of color, spacious abstractions that read like cloud banks, flows of water, and magnetic fields charged with monumental energy. Dulaney was raised in Colorado, looking west to the Rocky Mountains, and has travelled widely immersing herself in the landscape from an early age. Her paintings overwhelmingly capture that experience and the unique feeling of place:

"Dulaney’s work belongs to “a very strong tradition, that of 19th century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states….Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishe the paintings from most abstractions….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."
William Zimmer, “The New York Times”