MERIDITH MCNEAL
Inside Outside Leaded Glass (Yorkville, Manhattan), 2019, watercolor on paper, 75×55” 
Inside Outside Unnameable Books (Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn), 2020, watercolor on paper, 55×41” 
Inside Outside Graceful Confusion (Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn), 2020, watercolor on paper, 78×55” 
Inside Outside Quarantine Acropolis (Clinton Hill, Brooklyn), 2021, watercolor on paper, 75×55”
Windows invite a multiplicity of meanings. Add a reflective surface, so light can work its magic, and you bring a sort of graceful confusion: what is on one side can coexist with what is on the other, the space behind and before the viewer overlaid. Where you have been shows itself side by side with where you are, or where you may yet be going.
Meridith McNeal is a Brooklyn-based artist represented by Figureworks Gallery and Kentler International Drawing Space Flat Files in Brooklyn, NY. She has been a frequent Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Meridith represented Sperlonga, Italy in the renown Fabriano Paper Festival in 2019. In 2020 and 2019 Meridith was awarded Artists of the Year by the Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France. Her work received Jurors Top Choice Award Arizona Aqueous XXXV and Best of Show in Arizona Aqueous XXXIV, Tubac Center of the Arts; andwas cited for top merit in 2019 Contemporary Art Survey at Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, CO.
Meridith regularly exhibits her artwork throughout the US and abroad. Meridith’s recent solo exhibitions include Portrait of My Mother at Kentler Gallery NYC; Inside Outside Windowphilia, Figureworks, NYC; The View from Here at FiveMyles, NYC and In Reflection, Torre Truglia, Sperlonga, Italy. Her exhibition Graceful Confusion will be on view at Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Polignac, Venice, Italy in 2021. Her work is included in 35×35 Art Project & permanent collection of Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece. Meridith is the founder and Director of ART YARD BKLYN.