Florence Neal

Untitled (1988)

To learn more about Florence Neal's exhibitions, printmaking, painting, sculptures, public installations, and a full CV, visit www.florenceneal.com
Neal exhibited in numerous COLAB and ABC No Rio exhibitions.

Neal's artworks have been collected by numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, Columbus Public Library, Columbus, GA, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New York Public Library, Department of Prints, Fifth Ave., & 42nd St., New York, NY, Omaha Public Library, Omaha, NE, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, and the University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

Florence Neal is the the co-founder, director and chief curator of the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook and a former Exhibitions Coordinator at the Brooklyn Public Library. The Kentler has been presenting beautiful exhibitions since 1990.

 

1988
screen print
edition: 30
image: 30"h X 22"w
4 colors on Rives BFK

The transparent colors in Florence Neal's untitled print overlap and combine to form new colors. The image elements reference nature in bold gestures. Untitled is in the collection of the New York Public Library. Neal is a prolific printmaker and said, "this experience with water-based printing encouraged me to explore water-based methods going forward."

 

I am interested in the thin line, the tension, between balance and chaos and the many ways in which they dance on the edge of becoming the other. In my current work I explore the elements of nature through the medium of water-based woodblock prints (mokuhanga), giving voice to immediate environmental concerns.

Growing and flowing, our woodlands and waterways are essential mirrors of our own humanity. The interdependence and relationships between trees and water speak to me about the tenacity of life itself. As an artist, I see it as my job, my responsibility, to explore these themes and be guided by nature’s voice.

Florence Neal 2023