TRICKSTER UTOPIA PAINTINGS
"SPILYAY’S CHALLENGE IS ADDRESSED TO BOTH NON-INDIAN AND INDIAN
TO LEARN ABOUT THE ART OF LIFE AND DEATH.
THE CHALLENGE OF SPILYAY IS ALL AROUND US."
Yakama Tribal Museum
"McPhee’s five large paintings continue in, and expand on, her tradition of highly controlled and elegant mark-making. They speak a gestural language rich with references to the natural world and to physical and emotional landscape. Her dense, cinematic and palimpsestic works invite you in through their scrim via nuanced points of entry: a dart of intense orange, a window of Naples yellow. The works assert themselves both as images and as monoliths, jutting out from the wall with hefty edges (which are themselves fully considered, revealing glimpses of the underpainting). Are they space or surface, or both? Entire theses are contained within their edges." -- Madeleine Ignon, LUM Art, 2021
Trickster Utopia paintings were shown with ceramics by Toshiaki Nora at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, (background image) and at Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, in 2021 (see below).
Photos in slide show : Solien and McPhee, Swerve/Collide installation at Left Field, photos by Elliot Johnson
