Maeve D'Arcy

Maeve D’Arcy’s practice explores mark-making as language. In a contemplative process, she turns her random thoughts into dashes, Xs, dots, and every other sort of...

We love Maeve D’Arcy’s new paintings, which consist of obsessive mark-making, which is the hallmark of her work. The marks have become much more varied in this group of paintings, so there are big dots and little dots, and there are big Xs and little Xs. All of these marks create this energy that radiates from a distance, and then, as you get closer, you see where the energy comes from. The marks absolutely mark time, which is one of Maeve's raisons d'etre of mark-making, but they also reflect her stream of consciousness and bizarre thought process as she's creating work. She talks about how arbitrary her thought processes are and how she'll think about the most banal things and most important things, but they're all connected.

“Primary Colors” is a group exhibition on view in the Bridgehampton gallery through August 14, 2023. The show features beautiful abstract artwork by Greg Chann,...

This is a wonderful painting by Maeve D’Arcy, a Queens-based artist. It’s very typical of her style in which she uses very concentrated, meditative, and...