Maureen McCabe

My painting series is about my meditation practice and the awakening I’ve experienced through

mindfulness meditation. This series is titled “Process.” By creating textural and luminous abstract paintings, I take the viewer on a journey through the terrain and landscape of my mind. Each piece in this series represents the different stages of my mind and body awareness that I experience during my meditation practice. Before meditating, I usually have “Swirling Thoughts,” as they say in Buddhist practice, “Monkey Mind.” To calm these thoughts, I stop and become present. I sit on my meditation cushion and “Breathe,” I slowly inhale and exhale. I observe and watch my thoughts rather than engage in them. During this process, my mind calms, and I slowly become more aware of my thinking, mind, and body. I then delve deep into “Introspection” and reflection. As I “Emerge” from the meditation, I come forth with a new awareness.
Bio: Maureen McCabe paints iridescent abstract landscapes that evoke both an earthly and otherworldly terrain. McCabe creates her cosmic topographies in a spin on action painting, where her tools come from the kitchen and her motions from massage therapy. In her distinctive process, she works on panels set flat on butcher-block carts with casters. Moving along with the artwork, she pours, drips, sculpts, and builds, using a mix of molding paste and acrylic paint in the luminous hues of gemstones. Thick with impasto, each surface reflects and radiates light. The artist, who earned her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, lives and works in Medford, Massachusetts. Her art is in many private and public collections, including Boston Children’s Hospital and Charles River Community Health in Brighton.