CONTACT

If you have a gallery space and are interested in showing my work, to commission artwork, to purchase existing artwork, for more information or other inquires please email:

albinamcphail@gmail.com

BIO

My childhood resembled first few seasons of LOST: I was trying to “get off the island!” Eventually I succeeded. After making my home in the place far, far away from where I started out, I was able to pursue many interesting things: education, travel, raising a family. My love of running with paintbrushes, glue, and scissors has culminated in my achieving an art degree with an emphasis in Studio Painting. No one was willing to give me “runs well with scissors” degree. Now I reside somewhere between Fargo and The Big Easy, at my “Wit’s End”, and remain constant in my creative pursuits and delusions of grandeur.

STATEMENT

Painting, to me, is a journey. It is a multi-layered experience of trying to reconcile opposing forces of chance and choice. My work is informed by stepping away from the familiar and desiring to find it again, in however unlikely a form or abstraction. Intent is placed on color, movement, and texture. Relationships between drawing and painting are explored in a search for balance between the controlled and the unpredictable. I find inspiration everywhere, but nature has remained a constant cause of awe and delight.

EDUCATION

2002 BFA, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 artstream studios Gallery, Rochester, NH

2011 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2010 artstream studios Gallery, Rochester, NH

2010 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2010 Chicago Art Open, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL

2010 climate/gallery, Long Island City, NY

2010 Gallery 10, Washington, DC

2009 artstream studios Gallery, Rochester, NH

2009 Aurora Public Art Commission, Aurora, IL

2009 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2009 Fontbonne University Gallery of Fine Art, St.Louis, MO

2008 Pachyderm Gallery, Portland, OR

2008 artstream studios Gallery, Rochester, NH

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Morton College, Cicero, IL

2002 Glass Gallery, NIU, DeKalb,IL

AWARDS

Liquitex Student Paint Exchange Award

COLLECTIONS

Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NH