Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at Upcoming Exhibits at CYNTHIA REEVES, thru 3/29

The artist comments:

"Sometimes the places I depict are melancholic and soulless, other times they are droll. Part of how viewers can identify with these places is a sense of having been there before, or seeing something we have seen before. I want to show them back to the viewer: to re- present them as a way to establish a sense of belonging."

Macdonald's newest body of work, Sky on Ground (2014 - 2015), similarly calls our attention to overlooked everyday occurrences. She inserts elements of the landscape that would normally reside outside the picture frame, and places them squarely in the center of the composition using reflection as the vehicle. These interruptions again draw attention to a different way of visually referencing the land.

"Shona Macdonald's paintings and drawings offer an evocative reading of landscape riddled with manifold implications. Her works present imagery characterized by both its precisely rendered detail and confounding spatial ambiguity. Macdonald's imaginative topographies incorporate an intriguing array of pictorial tactics, as she zeroes in on her surroundings, observing and reworking them deftly. Drawing upon the history of abstracted landscape, a complex range of sources become refined into renderings that lay claim to a highly layered and nuanced, sometimes haunting graphic imagery." - Martin Patrick, "Around: Shona Macdonald", Roswell Art Museum, 2011