表象与心理之纽带 ｜ Elizabeth Neel

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Elizabeth Neel

(born 1975, Stowe, Vermont，based in New York)

BA  Brown University 1997

MFA from Columbia University 2007

看到Neel这个姓氏相信很多热爱艺术的朋友都不会陌生，Elizabeth Neel就是英国著名肖像画家Alice Neel的孙女。Elizabeth小的时候，祖母就经常将温莎牛顿的颜料作为礼物送给她，然而在高中和大学时她却放弃了绘画，完成学业后她才正式成为一名艺术家。Elizabeth并没有一直被祖母的光环笼罩，随之时间的推移，她发展出属于自己独树一帜的绘画风格。

尼尔的作品大胆地摒弃了抽象与表现之间的区别，风景和人物从抽象中脱颖而出，同时又巧妙地演变成另一种形式的抽象，这种抽象呈现的并非是几何图形，而是一种感知上的“错乱”状态。在新世纪的绘画中，尼尔提炼出一种方法，即对数字型图像的重新理解和运用，这也是艺术史的进程。尼尔创造了一种混合型的绘画，将媒介与情绪有机的结合到一起，是日常图像与抽象的结合，呈现出忧郁而富有娱乐性，朴素又具有自发性的氛围。

Elizabeth的绘画和雕塑模糊了建筑与身体，记忆与行为之间的关系。Elizabeth的作品虽然表面上是抽象的，但她对符号化的残缺却有着一贯的坚持。她的大型绘画作品展现了绘画艺术的创作过程与材料探索之间潜在的张力，体现了现代抽象主义的精神性遗产。Elizabeth的典型风格是在大尺寸的画布上泼洒，轻刷涂抹以及碾上颜料，用代表性的符号与稳定的线条和色域相互作用，创造出层层结构。她创作时的”暴力“一面，甚至可以拿来与德库宁比较。她标志性的图样和纹理编排介于对态势绘画（Gestural Painting）的独有特点的遵循与打破之间。画面上看似随意的爆炸性处理和偶然的对称性相结合，最终使画面折射出罗尔沙赫氏实验中研究出的图像表象结构与心理状况之间的纽带；而画面中的大地棕、绿色、深蓝色、贵族紫和丰富的红色也暗指着生物学中的人类体液。侵蚀、磨损和涂刷在她炼金一般的作画过程中隐喻着未来世界，也象征着远古时代。同一个画面上，“史前化石”和形似有毒物质渗漏的颜料同时存在，以此，Neel暗示了从古至今躯体本身的局限和人类未来极有可能面临的灭绝命运。她的雕塑使用各种材料，包括了粘土，木材，蜡，胶带，喷墨印刷品以及回收物，将不同视角的透视与视觉经验拓展到三维。

罗尔沙赫氏测验

罗尔沙赫氏测验是指把被测试者对10种标准墨迹的解释作为情感、智力机能和综合结构的检测方法来分析的投射测验方法。一个人对墨迹图的主观描述，会将其隐藏在潜意识中的欲望、需求、动机冲突等反映到刺激上。

Mother Type Resonant2017
Acrylic on canvas, 205.7 x 198.1 cm

Barrier Plane2017
Acrylic on canvas, 243.8 x 193 cm

Double Wrangle2017
Acrylic on canvas, 266.7 x 198.1 cm

Parallel Evolution2018
Acrylic on canvas, 200.7 x 162.6 cm

Glister The Pitch 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 231.1 x 185.4 cm

Vulture and Chicks 2016

Acrylic on canvas 198.1 x 350.5 cm

• First Man in Situ 2016
• Acrylic on canvas 185.4 x 116.8 cm

• Belongings 2016
• Acrylic on canvas 200.7 x 121.9 cm

• Katty Kath Katherine 2016
• Acrylic on canvas 274.3 x 200.7 cm

• Grouper 2016
• Acrylic on canvas 200.7 x 130.8 cm

• Click the Tongue 2014
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• Fixtures Morning to Evening 2014
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• Pagoda the Prairie 2014
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• Look Return Look Between Wing and Fence 2014
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 124.5 x 109.2 cm

• Gape 2014
• Wood, plastic, resin 121.5 x 75.5 x 32.5 cm

• Customs 2014
• Wood, spray paint, plastic, activa clay, resin 129.5 x 137.2 x 106.7 cm

• Speech Writer 2014
• Acrylic on canvas 198.1 x 182.9 cm

• Black Moon Socket 2013
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• Workers Work 2013
• Oil on canvas 244 x 193 cm

• Ten Thousand Years 2013
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• Edge of the Lip Face On 2013
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• #1(Lips) 2013
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• #2(Cross) 2013
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• #3(Baby) 2013
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• #4(Cat) 2013
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• #5(Wig) 2013
• Oil on canvas 243.8 x 193 cm

• The people, the park, the ornament 2013
• Oil on canvas 193 x 243.8 cm

• Here and the outside 2013
• Acrylic and collage on paper 61 x 48.3 cm

• Container and exit 2013
• Acrylic and collage on paper 61 x 48.3 cm

• Quiet made loud 2013
• Acrylic and collage on paper 61 x 48.3 cm

• Dorsolateral Prefrontal  2011
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 193 x 243.8 cm

• Relation of a Journey 2011
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 193 x 243.8 cm

• Almanac 2011
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 193 x 243.8 cm

• Double Blind 2011
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 116.8 x 147.3 cm

• Double Blind II 2011
• Oil and spray paint on canvas 116.8 x 147.3 cm

• The Younger 2011
• Found cloth, acrylic paint/acrylic spray paint, found metal, wood 55.9 x 43.2 x 40.6 cm

• The Head Comes from Elsewhere 2011
• Found cloth, acrylic paint, wood, aluminum armature wire 86.4 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm

• Slept and Slept 2011
• Wooden dowels, steel, acrylic paint, sheepskin 62 x 54 x 337.8 cm

• Prose 2011 Ceramic coffee cup, tea bag, wood, fabric, aluminum armature wire, bone, clay, mdf, acrylic paint  25.4 x 50.8 x 47 cm

• Deadfall with Figure 2011
• Acrylic on paper 72.4 x 59.7 cm

• Revert 2011
• Acrylic on paper 43.2 x 35.6 cm

• Friend of a Friend 2010
• Oil on canvas 48 x 40 cm

• Clever girl 2010
• Oil on canvas 23x18 inches

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