Tear glued but the process is ever

but the process is ever changing depending on the shifting conditions of their environment

Each successive painting took on its own identity completely apart from the source materials

His artistic practice originates in the studio

a series of drawings and paintings that are visual representations of fragmented images

Tear glued but the process is everPlace has such an effect on McCagg's work. This painting was created while she was in New England, rather than in her New York studio. When working in a square format, Xanda McCagg is focusing solely on composition. In this painting, as soon as she made the red line, she was forced to suddenly rethink the space creating a new space that she had not been working with. This spontaneity and response to each new mark is at the core of her working process