Megan Mulrooney is thrilled to present Embraced by Sunlight, our first exhibition with Virginia based artist Alexandra McGowan. The exhibition will be on view from May 16 – June 20, 2026.

McGowan’s canvases bleed, pulse, and blend; their marks scintillate and vibrate and morph and meld. Using watered down acrylic on super absorbent cotton bedsheets, she layers staccato dapples of color and wider washes of paint repeatedly across her surfaces. Her color palettes in each work are refined, but throughout the exhibition range from the dark blues of the deep ocean to the fluorescent yellows and pinks of more celestial spheres. While each work is entirely abstract, they recall perceptual experiences enabled by natural phenomena, from light reflecting off a water’s surface to the shifting sun’s rays, peaking through overlapping foliage.