RV Float gouache on raw linen impasto brush marks

impasto brush marks

she watches the clouds in the sky over the East River daily

Though she shudders with gratitude

and winter

RV Float gouache on raw linen impasto brush marksMcCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic vocabulary for her compositions. Xanda McCagg is an American abstract artist who lives and works in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. A classically trained painter, she has evolved into a style that abandons figuration in search of evoking the human essence. McCagg creates her abstract compositions using a mixture of oil,