Tear glued Healing and pleasure

Healing and pleasure

His artistic practice originates in the studio

and New York Presbyterian Hospital

using classic almost primal materials such as graphite

into corners and structures

Tear glued Healing and pleasurePlace 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