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Fuzzy, disjointed memory of the past

Nathaniel Mary Quinn is a Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1977. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums.  Nathaniel Mary Quinn  began to paint a recent vision he had experienced, a fuzzy, disjointed memory of his past. With no clear intention, he worked entirely in the moment, hurling onto the canvas the truth of whatever expelled out of him in the moment. When he finished, he said he was “blown away.”  In January 2014, the New York Times art critic Holland Cotter wrote a positive review of Quinn’s work from that show. And it’s basically been fast-forward ever since: Group exhibitions that followed include “Corpus Americus” at Driscoll Babcock Gallery in Chelsea and “Species,” a one-person exhibition at Bunker 259 Gallery in Brooklyn…
The appeal of his paintings are in the heart-rousing stories, the artistic choices and also the special technique he employs to bring them each to life. He uses sketches from photographs as source material then creates charcoal drawings over gouache, an opaque watercolor-based paint on paper. There are no prints or image transfers or mechanical devices used; everything is drawn and painted by hand. So the first thing he does is ad the color and, as an exceptional draftsman, draws on top of and around the color. Then he smudges over the paint with charcoal, followed by a meticulous erasing away of the charcoal to create shadows and reductions and other effects. Some of it looks flat, while other parts look three-dimensional. And as he’s making the work, what you see before you comes to surface entirely by means of free association. “So everything I make is based on visions I get,” said Quinn. “Initially, I don’t even know what the vision means. But I have a visceral response to make it, based on how I feel, as I’m constantly trying to recreate the vision that came to mind in the first place.”
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