Kristen Cochran, Katy Heinlein, & Marcelyn McNeil: Fold In

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Dec 8 2018 - Mar 3 2019

Fold In brings three Texas-based artists together: Kristen Cochran of Dallas, and Katy Heinlein and Marcelyn McNeil of Houston, who have never before exhibited together. Cochran, Heinlein, and McNeil share an affinity for quiet, coyly emoting, almost non-objective abstraction. One essential tool is shared in the creation of their work: scissors. Each artist has a unique way of folding, cutting, pattern-making, zhooshing, and piecing together.

Cochran, Heinlein, and McNeil utilize a carefully considered palette in their toying, sensual exploration of pictorial and actual space. A loose architecture exists in all of the work, a structure that frames a ghostly emptiness. Each artist is pragmatic and provisional, utilizing an economy of means. There is a deadpan humor present in the work, an obtuseness, a muted feeling, and an acceptance of mystery.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.          

  • Various Media
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Kristen Cochran
  • Katy Heinlein
  • Marcelyn McNeil

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