Maureen Meehan received her BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 1986, and then attended LIU Southampton Summer Masters Program to study with April Gornik and Eric Fischl.

She held her first solo exhibit in 1987 at the East End Council of the Arts in Riverhead, Long Island. Her paintings have graced the walls of Lutece, Church Street School of Music and Art, The Society of Illustrators, and SVA Gallery in New York City; BizG87 and One River in Larchmont, NY; and Open Door Medical Center in Port Chester, NY.

Her award winning illustrations have been featured by Ms. Magazine, Playboy, Viking Penguin, Berkley Publishing, St. Martin’s Press, etc. They have also appeared atop NYC cabs as part of a public service advertising campaign.

Maureen lives, paints and teaches in Larchmont, New York.

Artist Statement

35 years ago I was an illustrator, telling stories through pictures and feeling out of place. I knew the paintings needed to go somewhere else but where? The years moved on and I slowly started to listen to the painting instead of demanding anything from it. I began trying to get out of the way.

Listening is a quiet act. My work is to go into the quiet by stilling the chatter in my head. When i can get there something internal rises up. It’s a messy battle but worth it.

My paintings document that process; where things retreat, what needs to be exposed, what rushes forward, what insists on shining bright. They’re visual and energetic shifts that take you somewhere and through things. Acrylic, ink, graphite, oils and epoxy resin are incorporated. The paint is poured, thrown, burnt, blown, removed and replaced on the long road it takes to stand on its own.