FELIX MACNEE

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UPPER MARKET GALLERY is pleased to kick off a series of solo pop-up shows during the month of March 2023, starting with MACNEE, a painter originally from Chicago who is now local to the Bay Area. A graduate of SFAI, Macnee comes from a family of prolific artists and has shown at many galleries over the years, including Incline and Dolby Chadwick in San Francisco.

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March 3 - March 12

“My love of landscape started as a way to open up the claustrophobic walls of my tiny studio in the Tenderloin, which had only one small window. Each painting I made served as another window that opened into its own world. I loved the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder, and I think it showed.

Painting has always felt like a refuge, but recently it has been a place to revisit darkness, a kind of comfortable darkness. I’ve always eschewed attempting any kind of political art, but I think the events of the world today can’t help but color my recent work. I’ve embraced it, and I find it somehow liberating.”