McNally, Elizabeth Ann

Artist’s Statement

As an artist I alternate between two types of artistic content, narrative and nonrepresentational.  Working this way allows me a sense of retreat, variety, and reinvigoration.

In narrative work, I share my sense of humor and passion for animals, particularly woodland animals.  Animals fascinate me and people relate and identify with them as extensions of themselves.  It excites me to see and hear how observers bring different associations and interpretations to life when viewing my work.  This creates collaborative art with the audience.

Creating nonrepresentational pieces exemplifies the intrinsic value of the mediums, the materials, and the compositional elements.   Eliminating subject matter focuses the concentration on pure beauty.  This work is a personal expression of subjective experiences.

Artist’s Biography

Elizabeth Ann McNally is an artist and printmaker residing in New Britain Connecticut.  She chooses to work in both narrative and nonrepresentational content.  Key elements in her narrative work are animals, humor, and the graphic use of line.   In her nonrepresentational art, color, line, pattern and the properties of the material and medium, are the sole focus of compositions.

Elizabeth has a bachelor’s of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a focus in drawing and printmaking.  After graduation, her work was chosen to represent SAIC in admissions slide shows and on the SAIC website.  Her is work in the collection of the Children’s Library at the Chicago Field Museum and in the UConn Hospital art collection.  Elizabeth has been selected for public art projects in the towns of Southington, New Britain, Litchfield, Hartford, and Winsted.  Awards include the honorable mention award in Mystic Art Association’s 45th Regional Juried Show and honorable mention in the professional category for CRT’s 2015 National Art’s Program show in Connecticut.  Elizabeth and her solo show, “Playful,” in the Barnes Franklin Gallery, was featured in the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s blog, “Artists Spotlight”.   In 2018, Elizabeth and her exhibit, “Do Not Feed the Animals!” at the Fisher Gallery was a featured article in the Hartford Courant.  In fall of 2018 she was interview on Nutmeg Chatter for WAPJ and NPR’s Robin Hood Radio.

Exhibited in Good Purpose Gallery November 14, 2018 – January 15, 2019.