Xanda McCagg

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’s paintings push and pull our perception through layers of distilled human experience. Using the language of line, color, and mark-making, McCagg’s work comments on the dichotomies that shape our lives on both an intimate and global level. Observing the world around her, and exploring the cause and effect of shifting relationships as they occur in nature and in humanity, McCagg creates compositions that speak to memory, metaphor, and perception.

Embodied in these paintings is the deep human need for hope so pronounced in these times. Connecting to the universality of art that communicates through the centuries, from one hand to an eye, to the brain and back out, interpreted by each individual - that is the depth of understanding.

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