Margaret Maclean: to hell and back

Margaret Maclean’s "to hell and back" presents new oil paintings of figures caught between waking and dreaming. Bodies bleed into atmosphere, faces stay half-formed, and limbs stretch and double back, while familiar art-historical groupings—the mother and child, the ascending figure—are quoted and then unraveled. In the most abstract works the figure dissolves into color, exploring flesh, instability, identity, and sensation.