
The works serve as beautiful warnings to us all, speaking visually about humanity, triumph, and tragedy. The Palace Floor series takes this ominous tone and turns it on its head. She shifts to the future long after a cataclysm has occurred. Organic topiaries now surround obsolete man made monoliths. A lush hyper-green landscape, with cracks like mud cracks in a drought, is painted like a seductive mosaic floor. This is the antidote for the disasters, covering these segments of earth in all manner of lush vegetation, growth and hope. Once useful and glorified temples of progress, they now seem to haunt us with their mysteriously manicured grounds.
McGinnis grew up on a farm in central Illinois and earned a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1984. She did graduate work in sociology and anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
The Winter show will be up until April 20 with a reception to be held with the artist on April 17, 6-9. Both shows are presented in conjunction with Aron Packer of Packer Schopf Gallery.













