The Things I Love To Paint

Michael Reid Berlin ushers in the European spring with the first international solo exhibition from Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary painter and celebrated stalwart of our Murrurundi gallery, Stacey McCall. The culmination of an extended artist residency in Paris, McCall’s series builds on the glittering success of her most recent Murrurundi show, Lucent, which similarly emerges from the sketchbooks she keeps during a sojourn in the City of Light.

Titled after the gorgeous, gauzy glow that washes through each picture and lights up her elegant, effortlessly arranged accoutrements and tableware, Lucent finds McCall honing her softly expressive painterly language rooted in tonal underpainting. Evoking the essence of her still-life objects with an economy of graceful gestures and pared-back textural markings that filter through clouds of earthy, peachy tones, McCall’s deceptively simple, deftly realised style feels perfectly attuned to the warm insouciance and easy eclecticism of a Parisian pied-à-terre.

With her distinctive and richly evocative approach to still life, McCall allows the cumulative impact of timeworn objects and artfully undone florals and fruit to conjure a familiar yet faraway mood.

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