Olly Olly Oxen Free is a phrase used in children’s games to indicate that players who are hiding (in a game of hide and seek, for example) can safely come out into the open. The playful paintings created by the collaborative team of Stephanie King and Pam McDonnell started in 2017 when McDonnell gave King a two-year-old drawing to complete (Phase I). The resulting piece birthed the idea of an over/under game where clever prey outsmart the hunter. Both artists felt compelled to pursue the subject further with more paintings. Their second collaboration took place in 2018 at L Ross Gallery in Memphis, TN. This show presented eight large scale paintings worked out and over by the pair together and separately over a period of five months. The first-round series of paintings delight the imagination with magical creatures such as shady rabbits, leaping frogs and flying fish. The duo now moves into the third phase of Olly Olly Oxen Free by continuing to develop their own styles within as well as outside of their collaborative work. In their 2019 show at Anne Neilson Fine Art in Charlotte, NC, King and McDonnell will each present 7 individual, non-collaborative pieces directly influenced by the work they have done together. The duo feels this forward/backward creative process embraces the act of working together to create singular pieces of art.
Blind Man’s Bluff | 39x55 | $4800
Marco Polo | 60x54 | $6500
Hide and Go Seek | 54x62 | $6500
Leap Frog | 54x63 | $6500
I Spy Something Brown | 54x61 |$6500
Pick Up Sticks | 63x55 | $6500
Barking Up The Wrong Tree | 39x55 | $4800
*Bangtail and the Bronc-Busters | 36x47 | $4000 Unframed
Leap Frog | 41x29 | $2500
Marco Polo | 41x29 | $2500
Blind Mans Bluff
| 41x29 | $2500
I Spy Something Brown | 41x29 | $2500
*Blind Mans Bluff | 23x30 |$1600 Unframed
Hide and Go Seek | 23x30 | $2000
Pick Up Sticks | 41x29 | $2500
Barking Up The Wrong Tree | 41x29 | $2500
Marco Polo | 40x30 | $3000
Barking Up The Wrong Tree | 40x30 | $3000
Hide and Go Seek | 40x30 | $3000
Blind Mans Bluff | 40x30 | $3000
Leap Frog | 40x30 | $3000
Pick Up Sticks | 40x30 | $3000
I Spy Something Brown | 40x30 | $3000
KOREN AYERS | GA KOREN@ANNENEIL
ANNA ELLIOTT | G ANNA@ANNENEILS
LESLIE A. CULBERTSON | CORP LESLIE@ANNENEIL
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Olly Olly Oxen Free is a phrase used in children’s games to indicate that players who are hiding (in a game of hide and seek, for example) can safely come out into the open. The playful paintings created by the collaborative team of Stephanie King and Pam McDonnell started in 2017 when McDonnell gave King a two-year-old drawing to complete (Phase I). The resulting piece birthed the idea of an over/under game where clever prey outsmart the hunter. Both artists felt compelled to pursue the subject further with more paintings. Their second collaboration took place in 2018 at L Ross Gallery in Memphis, TN. This show presented eight large scale paintings worked out and over by the pair together and separately over a period of five months. The first-round series of paintings delight the imagination with magical creatures such as shady rabbits, leaping frogs and flying fish. The duo now moves into the third phase of Olly Olly Oxen Free by continuing to develop their own styles within as well as outside of their collaborative work. In their 2019 show at Anne Neilson Fine Art in Charlotte, NC, King and McDonnell will each present 7 individual, non-collaborative pieces directly influenced by the work they have done together. The duo feels this forward/backward creative process embraces the act of working together to create singular pieces of art.
BLIND MANS BLUFF
STEPHANIE KING + PAM MCDONNELL 55x74 | $
STEPHANIE KING 41x29 | $
STEPHAN 23x3
NIE KING 30 | $
PAM MCDONNELL 40x26 | $
MARCO POLO
STEPHANIE KING + PAM MCDONNELL 61x55 | $
STEPHANIE KING 40x30 | $
PAM MCDONNELL 40x26 | $
HIDE AND GO SEEK
HIDE AND GO SEEK
STEPHANIE KING + PAM MCDONNELL 55x63 | $
STEPHANIE KING 23x30 | $
PAM MCDONNELL 40x30 | $
I SPY SOMETHING BROWN
STEPHANIE KING + PAM MCDONNELL 55x62 | $
STEPHANIE KING 41x29 | $
PAM MCDONNELL 40x26 | $
BARKING UP TH
STEPHANIE KING 40x30 | $
HE WRONG TREE
PAM MCDONNELL 40x26 | $
LEAP F
STEPHANIE KING 41x29 | $
FROG
PAM MCDONNELL 40x26 | $
KOREN AYERS | GA KOREN@ANNENEIL
ANNA ELLIOTT | G ANNA@ANNENEILS
ALLERY DIRECTOR LSONFINEART.COM
ALLERY CURATOR SONFINEART.COM
Š Anne Neilson Fine Art 2019 All Rights Reserved | anneneilsonfineart.com