MAUREEN CHATFIELD is a contemporary American artist based in New Jersey. Painting since her childhood in New York, Chatfield studied at the Art Students League, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Hunter College. She now instructs the Modern Landscape at Hunterdon Art Museum. Chatfield works between three distinct bodies: the modern landscape; the semi-representational, or transitional; and pure abstraction. ARTIST STATEMENT Maureen Chatfield's paintings emerge from a sustained inquiry into structure, memory, and the invisible architectures that organize human experience. Working within the lineage of postwar abstraction while refusing its nostalgia, Chatfield builds fields of tension where gesture and geometry negotiate authority. Her surfaces are neither purely intuitive nor purely constructed; they function as sites of reckoning. Forms appear, dissolve, and reassert themselves. Color is not decorative but declarative—carrying spatial weight and pyschological temperature. The work asks how meaning coheres before language, and how order arises from rupture. Often compared to Gorky and Diebenkorn for their lyrical spacial structure, Chatfield's paintings ultimately insist on presence over reference. Each canvas is not an image but an event—a lived calibration between chaos and clarity. These works do not illustrate ideas; they enact them.