Transcript Thaneeya McArdle - Amazon Web Services

Infectious Alto
Size: 18" x 24" x 1.5"
Medium: Acrylic
Surface: Canvas
Style: Abstract
Artist: Thaneeya McArdle
This painting is aesthetically inspired by my
keen interest in the folk arts of Mexico and
India, particularly in the intensity of their color
palettes and their detailed patterns. This
painting combines my love for tribal art with a
contemporary urban aesthetic resulting in a
fresh, vibrant abstract style that expresses the
complexity and multiplicity of modern life
through a youthful and jubilant perspective.
Through the frenetic juxtaposition and overlap
of colors and patterns, I create a sense of
energy and exuberance on the surface that
immediately transforms the atmosphere of any
room into one of exotic festivity. This painting
may be hung with any side facing up! The 1.5"
thick edges of this painting are painted black,
making this painting ready to hang directly
onto the wall without a frame.
Intangible Evidence
Size: 8" x 8" x 1.5"
Medium: Acrylic
Surface: Canvas
Style: Abstract
Artist: Thaneeya McArdle
This colorful abstract painting
depicts eight vertical strips of
various designs and colors, each
interacting and harmonizing with
the neighboring colors and the
designs as a whole. This painting
embodies the concept of unique
individuals co-existing in affinity
with others. The 1.5" thick edges
of this painting are painted black,
making this painting ready to
hang directly onto the wall without
a frame.
Here I am inside the Turbine Hall at
the Tate Modern. This piece is entitled
"Embankment" by the artist Rachel
Whiteread, and consists of huge piles
of 14,000 white boxes.
thaneeya
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Astrological Sign: Gemini
Zodiac Year: Rat
Industry: Arts
Occupation: Artist
Location: it changes - Florida / UK /
France
Thaneeya McArdle
• Thaneeya McArdle is an internationally-collected artist working in a
variety of styles, ranging from photorealism to abstraction, and a
whimsical combination of the two. Her artwork is inspired by themes
of spirituality, nature, travel, multiplicity and change, held together by
a reverance for and appreciation of the everpresent unknown. She
seeks to evoke a sense of joy and wonder through her artwork, with
the belief that visual harmony creates a healing impact upon the
viewer, which can then spiral outward to positively affect all areas of
a person's life.
• Thaneeya utilizes a number of mediums in her work, such as
acrylics, watercolor, and colored pencils, forming her vision on a
variety of surfaces, from the traditional paper, wood and canvas to
more unconventional surfaces like the frame of her car! On this
website you can view an extensive portfolio of her work to date, as
well as purchase originals, prints, t-shirts, handmade necklaces, and
other gift items featuring her addictive artwork.
• I was born in the summer of '79, and six weeks later
experienced my first intercontinental plane ride. I've
been hooked on travel ever since. I learned to walk in
Saudi Arabia, stayed with a tribal village family in India,
visited a civil war refugee camp in Sri Lanka, had my
palm read in Nepal, trekked through gorgeous green
fields in England, and got lost in the Louvre. What I love
about travelling is that it forces you to find a sense of
rootedness within yourself - the perfect lesson in nonattachment. In many ways, the physical voyage runs
parallel to the inner journey, each realm of adventure
enhancing the other. Placing yourself out of context often
helps you see yourself more clearly, and I try to maintain
that perceptiveness in my daily life.
Early Years
•
•
I grew up mostly in Florida, a fairly normal child, although probably
considered quite shy and inward-looking, preferring daydreams and doodles
over daring and drama. I knew from an early age that I was an artist, and
quite clearly recall being thoroughly unsatisfied at the age of 6 with the
quality of the supermarket art materials I was given to work with. (Tempera
paints that were runny and blended into dull, muddy tones; slick
posterboard which would not properly soak the pigment; and clunky brushes
whose hairs would fray too easily and offered no practical control over
detail.) I liked drawing horses, but always forgot the mane.
After a colorful academic elementary career including a First Grade Spelling
Bee Champion trophy, I went through middle and high school in the normal
way, sprinkled with bouts of artmaking here and there amidst a mainly
scholastic curriculum. This began to change when at the age of 15, I
undertook lessons at the Atelier of Plein-Air Studies in Safety Harbor, FL,
where I learned the classical techniques of rendering still lifes in charcoal
and oil paints (such as the Satyr painting in the scrollbar below).
And then
•
•
I graduated high school in 1997 with numerous awards to my name, both academic
and art-related, such as being named a National Merit Scholar and an Outstanding
Painting Student. I've always loved to exercise the contents of my cranium, so I
started college unsure of whether to pursue my creative side through Creative Writing
or Art, or to pursue my intellectual and spiritual yearnings through Philosophy or
Religion. After taking a number of classes in each subject at the wonderful Warren
Wilson College, I realized that the pursuit of a livelihood in art would be the only
career path that would allow me to simultaneously explore all four of those interests
at once! I realized that art would allow for a creative outlet to all the intellectual and
spiritual searches that I would conduct throughout my life.
My time at Warren Wilson was important in many ways. It was (and still is, I imagine)
a rather tiny college nestled in the mountains outside of Asheville, NC, which focused
on service and work in addition to learning. The small, community-minded
atmosphere provided a supportive environment for personal growth and plentiful
opportunities for meaningful connections with other like-minded individuals. My
experiences there were invaluable in shaping and nurturing my burgeoning sense of
wanting to live a positive life imbued with appreciation and compassion for all living
beings - solidifying my aim to work for the overall constructive good of the world,
using whatever skills I can contribute.
•
•
As much as I loved the fun, open-minded environment of Warren Wilson and its
beautiful natural surroundings, its Art Department was still in its infancy at that time,
so I left for a school with a more established program. I spent four years at the
University of South Florida on a full scholarship. Most of the artwork I created there
falls under my Composite Realism category and reflects a time in my life when my
artistic output correlated with my search for a sense of identity through my crosscultural connections.
I graduated magna cum laude in the spring of 2004, after taking the meandering 7year route through college. I have since been happily meandering in other
contemplative ways - travelling the world and creating more artworks, now employing
a variety of styles and themes to express the many nuances of existence that my
boundless curiosity compels me to explore. I'm inspired by nooks and crannies,
unseen paths, ever-present mysteries and endless beginnings. With subject matter
ranging from politics to the subconscious, and through themes personal and
universal, I create works that draw directly from tangible images of the world around
me (photorealism) to works that spring from an inner spiritual search (abstracts).
Always a lifelong student, now the world is my classroom and I seek inspiration from
all I find around me.
And now
•
•
During the past three years I was intimately involved in the creation of an
ecological Buddhist co-housing community in southern France, which
provided me the opportunity to meet lots of interesting people from all over
the world and spend ample time enjoying nature. These experiences had a
profound influence on my art and consciousness. With each new piece of
art that I create, my skills are continually challenged and expanded and my
concepts become richer and more fully defined. Like life, my creative
endeavors are an endless learning process that is often surprising and
always enriching.
Since 2002, I have sold hundreds of artworks to collectors all over the
globe. My images can be found on t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, jewelry,
and countless other items. It brings me great joy and fulfillment to know that
my artwork is being enjoyed and appreciated all over the world! My goal as
a person is to live a genuine life, imbued with meaning, with openness and
awareness for all that is around and inside of me. My aim as an artist is to
give a visual voice to this quest, to honor the path that we are all on by
shedding light and adding color along the way.
Title: Tremulous
encounters between two
worlds
Size: 8" x 10"
Medium: Archival,
lightfast Ink &
Prismacolor Colored
Pencils on 300 lb HotPressed Watercolor
paper by Fabriano Uno
Artist: Thaneeya McArdle
Title: Tremulous encounters
between two worlds
The theme of this highly charged drawing is the mythic concept of life, growth,
and evolution. A cloud of elaborate eyes shoots down from the bustling
cosmos and wisps delicately into a fine tornado-like point that makes
contact with the dark, churning ocean of bobbing eyes. This drawing is
incredibly detailed; you can see close-ups below. This piece is a fusion of
my intensely-detailed black ink drawings and my equally-detailed colorful
abstract work. The two come together in a rich marriage of style and
energy. My abstract artwork is very process-oriented and carries a spiritual
meaning related to the mystery of existence and a reverence for the
unfolding process of life. The designs in this drawing arose spontaneously
in a stream-of-consciousness manner. While working on drawings that are
this detailed, I become so immersed in the work that drawing the images
becomes a meditative process through which I strive to achieve balance
amidst chaos (similar to the concept of mushin). The colors and designs
arise spontaneously and reflect my interest in tribal and aboriginal art,
specifically in the act of storytelling through nonrepresentational means. My
abstract art is also heavily inspired by my world travels, particularly my visits
to remote tribal villages in the Kutch region of India, as well as my visits to
temples and roadside shrines in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal.
• My abstract art paintings explore the self as an ever-evolving entity
engaged in the mythic quest of uniting the spiritual with the material.
Through the use of color, form, and personal symbology, I create
pieces that express the mystery and delight of questioning the
nature of existence.
• Abstract art is an ideal way to express matters of the spirit universal concepts and existential questions that reach across the
boundaries of language and cultural iconography. Through these
paintings I manifest the intangible elements of everyday existence emotions, thoughts, energy - by translating them into colors and
patterns. My abstract works are often highly detailed because of my
desire to achieve balance through multiplicity, in order to reflect the
complexity of human consciousness (as a microcosm of the
unfolding universe). The result is a whimsical concoction of color
and form sustained by a lyrical harmony.