You’re Invited – ArtFair14C!

I’m excited to announce that I was accepted to exhibit at Art Fair 14C at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey Novevember 11-14, 2021. I’ll be showing a whole big booth – Booth B16- of artwork – paintings from my Can we Talk?, my Boats series and my lachelmachle sculptures! 

For tickets go to: https://artfair14c.com/tickets

I also have a limited number of complimentary tickets – to get these go to this Link.

Thanks and I hope to see you there! 

The Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary
10 Senate Place

Jersey City, New Jersey

THURSDAY 11.11

PREVIEW
Cultural Partner access only 11am-5pm
VIP Reception 6pm–9pm

FRIDAY 11.12

VIP access 11am onward

Public Access 12pm onward
After Hours Reception 6pm–9pm

SATURDAY 11.13

VIP access 11am–7pm

Public access 12pm-7pm

SUNDAY 11.14

VIP access 11am–6pm
Public access 12pm-6pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, Booth 97, July 22-25 2021

I’m delighted that I’ll be exhibiting again at ​The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, next weekend, July 22-25, Booth 97 at the Brooklyn Expo Center at 72 Noble St. in Greenpoint.

I’ll be exhibiting all new paintings and sculptures. For free tickets go to TOAF and use code MargaretTIX. Or for the VIP event on the 22 use code MargaretPV.

I hope to meet you there!!

Gossamer wings of flapping sunshine

On gossamer wings of flapping sunshine the people in the tiny blue houses rose up into the snapping and sputtering spring air. Only to collapse, dazed and dizzy into the grass as if they were seeking forgiveness from winter. Their only wish, was that spring could forgive them, so that summer could then redeem the achy winter inside of them.

Happy and absurd were out rough housing in the field before dinner

I’m delighted that I’ll be exhibiting again at ​The Other Art Fair, this weekend, May 4th-6th. Stop by Booth 68 at the Brooklyn Expo Center to see my new paintings and sculptures. For a complimentary ticket go to http:/Nyc.theotherartfair.com/comp and use code TOAFCOMP

America!

gossamer wings of flapping sunshine reminding my face of summertime

Little lächelmachles at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

springing out from the Taurus-Littrow valley
2014; flashe paint, gouache and ink on paper; 30″x22″

lächelmachle #2

Come join me at The Other Art Fair, Nov.10th (noon-9pm), Nov.11th (11a-7p) &Nov. 12th (11a-6pm).   I’ll be exhibiting several paintings and my new ceramic lächelmachle* sculptures at Booth 76, the Brooklyn Expo Center,72 Noble Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

For a complimentary ticket go to nyc.theotherartfair.com/comp and enter this code: mwithers

Please shoot me an email if you would like to attend the private preview party on Nov 9, 6-9:30pm.

*lächelmachle:  loosely defined as ‘a small smiling world’.

even the stuffed bird is laughing’ 2017; 12″x9″; watercolor, ink and gouache on paper

The Plot Thickens…

They had fought.
Nothing but this waiting was what they felt and yet somehow, there was more. And now, by agreement, she faces east and he faces west. It’s the space that they’ve promised each other for there’s nowhere else to go.
And so, this waiting has been dissipated by words somehow found and formed while floating on this log. Looking east at the emptiness of sea and sky she thinks of when she once desired his time and resented his money. She had romantically thought of them being rich in time and cash poor -with a small house, a picket fence, and maybe a chicken or a goat.
Although, this realization isn’t what she wants right now.
What she wants is more.

I’ll have several paintings in the group show, The Plot Thickens…curated by Martha Willette Lewis at The Gallery at the Institute Library, at 847 Chapel St, New Haven, CT

September 9 – October 31, 2017, Opening Reception Saturday, September 9, 4-6 pm, Artist-led tour at 5 pm.

Artists: Lani Asuncion, Chris Barnard, Susan Clinard, Maya Deren, Clymenza Hawkins, Nathan Lewis, Christopher E. Manning, Margaret Ann Withers, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

From this thought a hazy question…

Go ahead, turn the knob and that will start this world up. You see it, right? Just east of the yellow sails. Then the people in the houses will rush to their controls, the wires will jiggle, the satellites will listen, the engines will roar and from this thought a hazy question will form.

from this thought a hazy question;2016; watercolor, gouache, ink, pigment on paper; 54″x72″ You can also buy high quality, limited editions of this painting on Jen Beckman’s 20×200.

If you find yourself in upstate NY this summer then plan to visit the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden in North Salem, NY. These two paintings will be up at the Inspiration exhibit, opening Reception June 1​7th, ​1p-3p; the show is up through Sept. 16th.

Remember when we bantered in my dream? 2016, 30″x22″, watercolor, ink, gouache on hand molded indigo paper

Lovely the swift Spartacus

I’ll be exhibiting in London during the London Art Fair week at ArtRooms.  I’ll have two large paintings, several small oil on panel from my boat series and some small works on paper from my Electric::Current::Amp series.  I’d love to meet you in London next weekend!
Show Dates: January 20-23, 2017 at Meliá White House Albany ST Regent’s Park.

Friday 20th January VIP and Press Preview • 4pm – 8pm (Invitation Only)
Saturday 21st January • 12pm – 7pm
Sunday 22nd January • 12pm – 7pm
Monday 23rd January • 10am – 1:30pm

California Dreamin’; 2015; 61.5″x49.5″x3″; flashe vinyl paint, ink, acrylic gouache, driftwood, small -people, Bugatti Veyron, telephone poles

Lovely the swift Spartacus that brought you over this black earth; 2015
acrylic gouache and ink on raw linen 66″x53″

that howling infinite; 2016; oil on panel; 12″x12″x1″

“Adrift” wine reception and artist talk

MARGARET ANN WITHERS 'ADRIFT' WINE RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK DECEMBER 29 (THUR), 2016  /  5:30 - 7:30 PM Gspot CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE invites you to celebrate the holidays with a glass of wine and meet the artist, MARGARET ANN WITHERS, and discuss the insights behind her new body of work entitled “ADRIFT” (now on display until January 1, 2017). Gspot Contemporary’s first solo exhibition of Texas native, Margaret Ann Withers. Consisting of a series of oceanscape paintings in which Withers navigates deeply personal and visionary scenarios informed by themes of alienation, isolation, and uncertainty offset by a wry sense of humor, which functions as an antidote to the constant specters of hopelessness and despair, as she fearlessly dives into the mystery of existence in the 21st century. Withers’ artwork is in multiple private and corporate collections, including Trunginger AG, in Zurich, Switzerland, and has won many awards, including a 2016 Artist in Residence at The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

310 East 9th Street Houston, Texas 77008 Contact Wayne Gilbert 713-869-4770If you need or would like further info please contact Wayne Gilbert @ wayne@digimg.com

Warmth of Winter at NAC

Two paintings from my Waiting for Beckett series will be in the The Warmth of Winter show, curated by Dee Shapiro at the National Arts Club, Grand Gallery. Opening Reception, December, 22nd 6-8pm.

December 19, 2016 – January 7, 2017
Gallery open Monday–Friday, 10:00am until 5:00pm
National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York NY

my dear Rosette Nebula; 2016; 18″x18″; oil on linen

bubbling from heart to soul;2016; 18″x18″; oil on linen

Adrift

If you are in Houston this weekend please come out to the opening of my solo show, Adrift, at G-Spot Contemporary Art Space, Houston Texas.

On view December 3rd, 2016 through December 31st, 2016. Opening Reception December 3rd, 6pm-9pm.

I have to see a man about a dog

Attached  to the paintings is a three-dimensional sculptural object of driftwood that contains HO-scale people, a car, and telephone poles.  This sculptural object is attached to the linen with magnets. In the sky is painted an apparatus that appears to be part botanical and mechanical.   It floats just out of reach of the humans who are left, floating on driftwood,where it seems that something might occur, or has already occurred, and now the consequence is being played out, and they’re forever set to repeat the narrative assigned to them.

cowgirl barracuda

close-up of wood sculpture on I have to go see a man about a dog

close-up of wood sculpture for cowgirl barracuda

Withers’ artwork is included in multiple private and corporate collections, including Trunginger AG, in Zurich, Switzerland, and has won numerous awards, including a 2016 Artist in Residence at The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA),  2013/2015 resident fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, a 2013 fellowship to the Millay Colony, and a 2013 USA Project Grant.   She has exhibited at The Drawing Center Museum in New York City, MarinMOCA in California and Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts.  In 2014, the city of Brussels, in coordination with La Bellone, invited her to participate in a group exhibit during Brussel’s Winter Wonders.

G-Spot Contemporary Fine Art

310 East 9th Street, Houston, Texas 77007, USA

T.1.713.869.4770

Website:  http://www.ggalleryhouston.com/margaret-withers-gspot-contemporary-art-space/

salty mutterings glanced out loud

Her new blue house reminded her of the sea.  And,  she felt vaguely homesick for her dad, and those childhood drives spent searching, on packed sand, for the perfect spot, while listening to his salty muttering’s glanced out loud.

These two painting will be in the upcoming exhibit, Something Else, at The Painting Center in New York city, opening reception today, Thursday, March 31st,  6-8p, closing reception, April 21, 6-8p at 547 W 27th St, Suite 500.

 

 

salty mutterings glanced out loud, 2015; 41.5″x29.5″;flashe, watercolor, gouache, ink on paper

nothing to say in words for which I would not stand for; 2013; watercolor, gouache, ink, enamel on paper; 30″x22″

Adrift – at Aqua Art Miami 2015

Three paintings from my Adrift series will be available at Aqua Art Miami, rm 210 with Arcilesi|Homberg Fine Art.

There will also be several unframed small paintings from my google earth series and my electric current:amp series available with AHA (rm 210) and with C Emerson Fine Art (rm 224).  To see all work go to my website and search with Description = Aqua.

Below are fifteen possible narratives to go with these paintings.

California Dreamin’
2015; 61.5×49.5×5 inch or 157×126 x13 cm
Flashe paint, ink, acrylic gouache on linen, driftwood, small people, Bugatti Veyron, telephone poles

California Dreamin’

(Five possible narratives)

1. After silently weighing their odds, they decided to just let rock, paper, scissors determine the final winner.
2. Slowly the realization came to him, he was in hell, stuck as it were in one last board meeting.
3. Three venture capitalists, their minds racing with the possibilities.
4. Summoning a deep breath, the earth finally decided to just blow them off.
5. Timothy racked his brain for a funny joke to tell his new best buds.

I didn’t know you meant now
2015; 61.5×49.5×5 inch or 157×126 x13 cm;flashe paint, ink, acrylic gouache on linen, wood, small people, Porsche 356 Speedster, telephone poles

I didn’t know you meant now

(Five possible narratives)

1. Something was coming toward her, from above, and she was waiting for it, lying still and concentrating.
2. Having thought that today might be the last day, Betty Sue decided to lie down and take a nap.
3. The brother’s decided that the best course of action would be to try to leave while she slept.
4. The brother was right, the car was useless, but in his briefcase he kept the keys, along with crumbled up post-it notes he had written to his mistress.
5. The contraption floating above him belched more telephone poles, and again, he wistfully fondled the iphone in his pocket.

Reading the Eternities
2015; flashe paint, ink, acrylic gouache, wood, small people, telephone poles;1960 Ford F100 Pickup Truck; 49.5″x79.5″x5” or 126x202x13cm

Reading the Eternities

(Five possible narratives)

1. Thoreau might have said ‘Read not the Times, read the Eternities’ but really, how many times can reread either?
2. Playfully spitting balls, the Thing Above could not get her attention.
3. Sam realized that he was -happy.
4. For a cigarette, for just one more cigarette… she sighed into the ocean.
5 Sam thought, at least now, I won’t ever have to replace the distributor cap.

Dwellings

These paintings, from my Dwellings series,  will be at the Cambridge Art Fair, Oct. 2-4th, in Booth G3, with Global Art Traders.

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I heard you running after me, because you felt this once, didn’t you? Come, walk with me.

I know that I have felt this dwelling and this one too, and somewhere within the folds of my memory, there remains a formless falling of words that will tie me to this place.

But first, you have to put your vision of a crystallized world of ordered homes and quiet villages to the side, and see? A curious system exists of a classification by lines and a species of color.

Something, is pushing something, into existence.

Move with me by these windowless dwellings, and look, a tensing, flexing multitude of ridges, and, along the ridges flow channels of color, and in these channels are some circles, some bright, some dull, and some interrupt the flow as others pull away.

Coger en un trampa is to catch in a trap, but this is the right way and it’s a marked path, so just follow the lines and you’ll find an exit.  Me?  I think I’ll stay awhile.

 

waiting, huddled they stand

then leaving, arriving, somewhere

a smattering of truths stepped away from gravity

I’ll have this painting, a smattering of truths stepped away from gravity, in the upcoming Black & White exhibit, Aug 1-Aug 23 at BWAC in Red Hook, Brooklyn.  The reception is Aug. 1st at 3pm.

a smattering of truths stepped away from gravity; 30″ x 22″; 2015; gouache, ink, flashe paint, watercolor on paper

Group Exhibit at the Queens Museum, NYC

This painting will be on exhibit at the Queens Museum in NYC as part of the pop-up group exhibit, A Diamond Called Outsider Art.  This weekend only, July 17-19th, curated by Alessandro Berni.  Opening reception is Friday night 6-8pm.

Russian fireballs tossed under my skin,2015;30″x22″;vinyl paint, ink, watercolor on paper

ART SOUTHAMPTON -this weekend

These paintings of mine will be at ART SOUTHAMPTON this weekend with Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance Booth #AS27.   July 9 – 13, 2015. @art_southampton #art_southampton

of desire for when I look at you; 2015; 25.5″x19.5″; vinyl paint, ink on paper

Some men say, some men say, some men say, but I say; 2015; 30″x22″; vinyl paint and ink on paper

Spring into Art at SCAA in Rancho Santa Fe, California

I’ll  have several pieces in a group exhibition, Spring into Art, at Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance in Rancho Santa Fe, CA (near San Diego).  The exhibit opens today, June 6th, from 10-6pm and will be up till June 20th.  Email: SCAAinbox@gmail.com for directions.    Here is the catalog.

Lady of Gold Arms Doom; 2015; 16″x12″; vinyl paint and ink on paper

Some men say, some men say, some men say, but I say; 2015; 30″x22″; vinyl paint and ink on paper

a theoretical movement of iron; 2015;ink,vinyl paint, gouache on paper, 30″x22″

pulled in two -SELECT Art Fair, May 13th-17th, NYC

the nurse men

Pulled in two

He called me and my friend Rebecca to the fence that enclosed the playground.  I was eight and he seemed really old to me.  He smiled and winked, opened his hand and said, Want some Tootsie Rolls?  I thought of my lunch that I had made for myself, a heel of bread folded in half with butter and a wilted pickle.  I eyed the Tootsie Rolls, thinking how I loved the mild, slightly chewy chocolate flavor.  Rebecca ran away,  and hesitating, I grabbed the candy and ran back to her as I stashed one of the pieces into my pocket.

”It’s poisoned!”  she yelled at me.  Shamed by her certainty I threw away the piece in my hand.  The rest of the day, I fidgeted in class as I fondled the Tootsie’s outside waxy paper, while twisting and untwisting the ends I imagined the chocolate on my tongue and my stomach grumbled it’s inclination.     Running home from school, I pictured my death by poison and  my parent crying at my funeral.  I let myself into our house and stood in the quiet doorway,  I unwrapped the Tootsie Roll, examined it and pulled it in two.

Auriga charioteer in search of Hippodamia

I’m excited to be exhibiting at Select Art Fair this year, May 13 -17th, located at Center 548 (DIA Building) in Chelsea,  New York City.    

Star of Celestial Meadows

Marfark

if not winter, no pain

spangled is the earth with her crowns

pulled in two- SELECT Art Fair – May 13-17th, NYC

Pulled in two

He called me and my friend Rebecca to the fence that enclosed the playground.  I was eight and he seemed really old to me.  He smiled and winked, opened his hand and said, Want some Tootsie Rolls?  I thought of my lunch that I had made for myself, a heel of bread folded in half with butter and a wilted pickle.  I eyed the Tootsie Rolls, thinking how I loved the mild, slightly chewy chocolate flavor.  Rebecca ran away,  and hesitating, I grabbed the candy and ran back to her as I stashed one of the pieces into my pocket.

”It’s poisoned!”  she yelled at me.  Shamed by her certainty I threw away the piece in my hand.  The rest of the day, I fidgeted in class as I fondled the Tootsie’s outside waxy paper, while twisting and untwisting the ends I imagined the chocolate on my tongue and my stomach grumbled it’s inclination.     Running home from school, I pictured my death by poison and  my parent crying at my funeral.  I let myself into our house and stood in the quiet doorway,  I unwrapped the Tootsie Roll, examined it and pulled it in two.

Auriga charioteer in search of Hippodamia

I’m excited to be exhibiting at Select Art Fair this year, May 13 -17th, located at Center 548 (DIA Building) in Chelsea,  New York City.    

Star of Celestial Meadows

Marfark

if not winter, no pain

spangled is the earth with her crowns

Visual Tone Poem #1 – Curious USA

To get there, you follow a passage, not like this sentence is a passage, but instead, like a line is a passage, and you know that the road is there because you can see the  houses,    and you look up and down the line and see the telephone poles with the telephone lines that snap in some breeze unfelt, at least by you, and listening, you hear the party lines hum with gossip and pig futures.

Do you see the eyes?    They’ve been there all this time, just staring at you, as if they’re waiting for their cue, and you think you know what this is all about, that you’ve seen this written down on scraps of paper that were crumbled up and tossed in a trash can, where you repeatedly dug them out and smoothed them on your knee while mumbling to yourself that, really, it’s ok to move on.

Well, the mouth,  you understand, it’s just a souvenir, picked up at a Stuckey’s store somewhere in West Texas, where afterwards, you pulled out of the parking lot and back onto the road, snapping your eyes up from the mesmerizing pull of the telephone lines as they stretch from pole to pole, rolling down into the curve and back up, click, and down, then back up, click, keeping time with the purr of the tires on the blacktop, and beyond that you see the flat darkness of the fields, corn rows  fanning  out in the curve of each line

 , and before long a house interrupts this flow and you see your own tired eyes reflecting back at you in the glass.
You quickly roll down the window just to feel the cool breeze and you stare straight ahead and somehow you know that this image is just a passage moving through this curious American landscape and that, if you look away now, you might just miss it.

(Apologies to RPW.)

January 2015 exhibits

Places to see my artwork in January, 2015

• Curious American Landscapes, solo show at the Main Gallery in Port Washington Public Library, now through January 31st, Port Washington, Long Island, NY.
• Monmouth Museum,  36th Annual Juried Exhibition, Lincroft, New Jersey,  Jan 17-March 8th.
• Arcilisi |Homberg Fine Art, All Good Things, Opening January 17th at 6pm, (LES) 139 Eldridge St, NY, NY.

Oregon;: She flies into her own wings::Bethenia at Monmouth Museum

into the crepuscular light the mary’s tossed mightily at Port Washington

touching his toes in the electron sea, watching waves of lead at AHA

Auriga charioteer in search of Hippodamia at Port Washington

La Bellone Fait Le Mur! Opening Dec. 18th

A woman reclining in a field of grass falls asleep while reading The Clouds by Aristophanes. She dreams a theater, a stage and actors who speak a dialogue in a myriad of languages as they perform an unfamiliar ancient play that reflects a modern sensibility of disquiet and humor.

Five paintings that represent scenes from the play, and the transliterations of the dream, will be exhibited at  LA BELLONE FAIT LE MUR ! – TRÉSOR CACHÉ, in Brussels, Belgium, Opening Party Dec. 18th at 18:30.  Exhibition open Dec18- Jan 3rd.  Curated by Barbara Coeckelberghs,  Yamina El Atlassi and Olivier Goldstein.

This is the graphic representation of the mapping of the dream.

I fell asleep in a field reading Aristophanes’ The Clouds – I was walking toward the Chorus of Clouds while hiding my mouth in the mirror and fleetingly, across this mouth I saw the real me.  But then, Unjust Argument who is my foil, turned my teeth into the bars of a jail cell while Just Argument made a prisoner of my tongue, so that only my eyes saw the war-chariots guarding the house where the nurse men mumbled for more power.  Yet, unaware, the hero, my mind, was sluicing and panning for ore with a large rocker box, searching for flecks of gold.

Transliterated Version
I went to choir clouds, while hiding his face in the mirror and volatile, testified at the mouth of the real me.  But then the argument is not fair that my film, shot in bars with dental inmates and jail cell arguments of only my tongue, so that my eyes saw only tanks guarding the house where the men muttered nurses for more power . However, ignoring the hero, in my opinion was very mineral sweeping and washing, with a big flip-flop, looking for gold points.

 Click here to see the Google translated transliteration in each language.

Scene One – Walking Toward The Chorus Of Clouds

Scene Two
Unjust Argument and Just Argument panning for ore

Scene Three
only my eyes see what my mouth is locked out from

Scene Four
the nurse men

Scene Five – The Hero with the rocker box

losing verbal acuity

Maybe you feel this way sometimes – caught in a Gertrude Stein poem.  Not tongue-tied but word-tied, but then again, maybe not, because you’re smart, brilliant and you refuse to believe in such nonsense… me, however, I’m searching for the words in the cushions.

Upcoming events to see my art:

• Aqua Art Miami, Dec 3-7th with William Baczek Fine Arts, room 114 (click here to see all that is available)
• Holiday Salon Art Sale on Saturday, December 6th 12-8pm and Sunday, December 7th 12-6pm at Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC NYC.  (small works from my Waiting for Beckett series)

Wazn, 12″x8.5″ at Aqua Art Miami room 114

cosmic dust; 8″x8″, oil on panel at Jeffrey Leder Gallery

Déjà vu

A couple of large paintings of mine will be in the Déjà vu group show, October 30th -November 12th, 2014 at NOoSphere Gallery in New York City, 251 E. Houston st, curated by ArtForProgress.  Opening reception 10/30 from 6-10pm.

Archimedes’ lever
2014; gouache,vinyl paint, ink, watercolor on paper Dimensions: 30″ x41.5″

blushing into epistemic humility
2013; gouache,  vinyl paint, pigment, ink on linen; 72”x63”

October::exhibits::places to see my art

• Home, at Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at the College of Saint Elizabeth, curated by Dr. Ginny Butera, Oct. 9th – Dec.14,Reception Oct 9th, 5-7pm, Morristown, NJ
• Brussels Accessible Art Fair,Oct 16-19 at Cercle de Lorraine; Place Poelaert 6
  VIP Preview – Oct 16 6p-10pm; Open – Oct 17 11a-7p; Oct 18 11a-6p,Oct 19 11a-7p      Contact me if you need tickets as I have a couple to spare and please go to my website  to see a preview of the artwork that will be at AAF.
• self-published, at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, curated by Lanny Quarles, Oct24-Nov29, Reception Oct 24 6-9p,  Dallas, TX    (Showing Prints from my digital art – USA Transliteration Project)

Misplacing Erichthonius at Accessible Art Fair
2014; vinyl paint and ink on paper; 22″x30″

 

Béjar gobbled raisinets at the majestic at Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery

US Transliteration Project- Arkansas at Cohn Drennan Contemporary

#Margaret_Withers @no_drag_no_wind @AccessibleArtFair @Accessibleart @CercleLorraine #Brussels #OctoberEvents

wrong number

You’re at JFK and it’s 6 am and your cell phone rings and you’re in the middle of laughing at someone’s joke but you answer the phone because somewhere in your head you think it’s the pet sitter or building super or someone you should speak to before you fly off to somewhere deserted, foreign and filled with blue-green light. You don’t recognize the voice shouting obscenities at you wondering, “Ho, where you at?” And he’s calling you by a name not yours and you respond, “Hey dude, you’ve got the wrong number.” But he doesn’t believe you, as if you’re covering for the woman he calls “Ho”, so you hang up and ignore the subsequent flurry of desperate calls and texts until you board the plane.
I’ve relocated my studio to the far northern reaches of Manhattan and it felt like the universe temporarily gave me the wrong number.

I will have artwork in these upcoming group shows (finally….California!):

• 2014 National Fall Exhibition, selected by Betti-Sue Hertz at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in  Novato CA, Aug 30 to Oct 5, opening reception, Aug 30 5-7pm.
• Shifting Alterity:Otherness in our Social Landscape, curated by Vida Sabbaghi Sept 9- Oct 17 at Skylight Gallery in Chelsea – NYC, reception Sept 18 6-9pm.
• 2014 Annual Landscape Exhibition at William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA, Sept 3- Oct 4, reception Sept 6, 5-7pm.

under toes tapping tempo ground the morning glory at William Baczek Fine Art
2014; 22″x30″

if you must speak then please speak with words; 2014, 30″x22″                      at William Baczek

sudden prosperities of sunlight, 2013, 22″x30″ at MarinMOCA

Lena’s little constitutional
2011; 30×22″ at Skylight Gallery

AS | Orchard 33

This piece, Let the Rose bloom, will be in an upcoming group show at Orchard 33 Gallery, at 33 Orchard st. in the Lower East Side, NYC.  For a sneak preview of the show join The Gertrude Salon, tonight, July 30th from 6-7pm for a curator’s talk of the show. The opening reception is Thursday, July 31 from 6-8p.

Let the Rose Bloom at AS | Orchard

New York Poetry Festival – outdoor installation

This weekend, July 26-27, I’ll have an outdoor installation of my digital art project, The United States Transliteration Project up at the New York Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island, Saturday and Sunday from 11am-6pm.  It’s a free event and will be lots of fun!

Below are 3 of the 51 states (including DC) that will be up:

Alaska

@NYCPOFEST @no_drag_no_wind #NYCPOFEST #MargaretWithers

Tonight- The Intuitionist at The Drawing Center

My artwork will be at these upcoming exhibits in July/August:

The Intuitionist, curated by Lisa Sigal, at The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St, Manhattan, July 11- August 24  Reception, July 10 6-9p. The catalog of the show is available on Issuu.  (My art will be in the vitrine.)

Layers, curated by Aimee Hertog at City Without Walls, 6 Crawford St, Newark, NJ, July 19 – August 23. Reception  July 19, 6-9p.

My summer digital art project, Transliteration Project: Revising the 50 US Seals, is an outdoor installation at the New York Poetry Festival, July 26-27, 11a-6p on Governor’s Island, NYC.  The e-book of this project is available on iTunes.

AS | Orchard, curated by Jill Conner, at the gallery 33 Orchard, 33 Orchard St, Manhattan, July 31 – August 16, Reception, July 31, 6-8p.

#TheIntuitionist #MargaretWithers #NYCArtEvents @DrawingCenter @no_drag_no_wind

Warm::Silence for The Intuitionist group show at The Drawing Center, NYC.

swamping tideless wrapped in coaxial cable floated the east river Regatta, one of four paintings at City Without Walls

Let the Rose Bloom at AS | Orchard

Kentucky from the US Transliteration Project

warm::silence

My artwork will be at these upcoming exhibits in July/August:

The Intuitionist, curated by Lisa Sigal, at The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St, Manhattan, July 11- August 24  Reception, July 10 6-9p. The catalog of the show is available on Issuu.  (My art will be in the vitrine.)

Layers, curated by Aimee Hertog at City Without Walls, 6 Crawford St, Newark, NJ, July 19 – August 23. Reception  July 19, 6-9p.

My summer digital art project, Transliteration Project: Revising the 50 US Seals, is an outdoor installation at the New York Poetry Festival, July 26-27, 11a-6p on Governor’s Island, NYC.  The e-book of this project is available on iTunes.

AS | Orchard, curated by Jill Conner, at the gallery 33 Orchard, 33 Orchard St, Manhattan, July 31 – August 16, Reception, July 31, 6-8p.

Warm::Silence for The Intuitionist group show at The Drawing Center, NYC.

swamping tideless wrapped in coaxial cable floated the east river Regatta, one of four paintings at City Without Walls

Let the Rose Bloom at AS | Orchard

Kentucky from the US Transliteration Project

warm dirt

Finally.
Grass, flowers, trees and the clanging sound of the  ice cream truck hinge out from the earth’s woolly socks.

Where to see my art:

Viewpoints, a group show at the  Aljira Center for the Arts, in Hoboken, NJ from June 4th – June 28th, Opening reception, June 7, 6p-9p.

Balls to the wall, a summer group show at AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, June 5th – June 29.

Agreement and Disagreement went walking in the woods, 2013; vinyl and oil paint, 40″x40″

New catalog of collected work.

Wait for Dial Tone by Margaret Withers

Curious American Landscapes

My ebook and print magazine of my new work, Curious American Landscapes, is now available at:

Curious American Landscapes::artwork by Margaret Withers

nameless and silent she counted the fine hair; 2014; 30″x22″; vinyl paint, ink, watercolor on paper

camping

Truck camping, (pickup truck with camper attached) was surely invented to maintain parental sanity during ambitiously long family trips and was my parent’s chosen method of vacationing.  Separated by two layers of heavy glass with only walkie talkies to connect parent and child, my parents, in their wisdom, always ‘forgot’ to turn theirs on.   And with this absence of a tattletale device, a microcosm of a sibling version of Lord of the Flies would always exist in the camper.   As such, I spent a good deal of each camping trip locked in the camper’s tiny bathroom, where I would stand on top of the porta pottie, watch the American west roll by from the tiny window and tell myself stories.

Upcoming places to see my art:

•  BWAC Wide Open from 4/26-6/1, opening reception 4/26 2-6pm, juried by Paulina Pobocha of MoMA.
• Brooklyn FireProof Gallery, May 1st from 7-9:30 at the exhibition fundraiser by Bushwick Art Crit called, #MUTUALBENEFIT, an exhibition of BACG artist for the new project, BACG Artist Film Library.
• I’m also happy to announce that BlueStone Fine Art Gallery in Philadelphia will now be carrying my time::second series, (oil on canvas) if you’re in Philly swing by and say hi to Pam.

At BWAC -strange infirmities of a cognitive agent 2013; flashe vinyl paint and ink on linen; 72″x63x2″

At #mutualbenefit, lost in the Rub’ al Khali
2013; watercolor,ink, enamel on paper; 20″x14″

 

At BlueStone Fine Art Gallery, longer periods of lesser coincidence
2013; oil on canvas; 40″x40″x2″

 

Art Expo 2014

I’ll have several pieces at ArtExpo with Estrany-Merida Art, booth 161.  April 4th-6th
Pier 94; 711 12th Ave (55th Street & the West Side Highway), NYC.

melancholizing sunlight dappled onto the spot 2013; gouache,vinyl paint, ink, watercolor on paper; 30×22″ $1950.00 framed

tipping the fandango
2013; watercolor/ink/gouache; 12×8.5;
$650.00 framed

many eyelash fortnights of navel gazing continuations followed
2012; watercolor/ink/pigment; 12×8.5;
$650.00 framed

tossed Tiara’s landing in muddy pixie dust
8.5×12″; 2014; gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
framed – $650.00

‘Other Worlds’ group show at Skylight Gallery through 4/4/14

There’s still time to go see a group show that I’m in, Other Worlds, at the Skylight Gallery 538 W. 29th St., in Chelsea (Manhattan).   The show is up Feb. 27 – April 4, 2014.

Curated by Jill Slaymaker.

Below are the two pieces that will be in the show.

Cosmic ruminations marshaled into minute particles; 2013
flashe vinyl paint and ink on canvas; 40”x40” $2400.00

black holes leaping in and out of existence
2013
Gouache, vinyl paint, ink, watercolor on paper
22 x 30 ½”
$1950. framed $1650. unframed

2014 Scope New York Art Fair

I will have several pieces at Scope NY courtesy of C Emerson Fine Art – booth G09- this piece below and four small ones.

lost among the stones the thing onto itself laughed
8.5×12″; 2014; gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
framed – $650.00

I feel for you my tiny prince
8.5×12″; 2014; gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
framed – $650.00

tossed Tiara’s landing in muddy pixie dust
8.5×12″; 2014; gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
framed – $650.00

dark windows into infinite pools
8.5×12″; 2014; gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
framed – $650.00

the sea

If, as I’m walking, I narrate what I’m doing and even thinking, creating a feedback loop, thinking, I’m thinking that I’m walking and I’m walking, thinking of walking.
It’s at this moment that the earth seems to be moving in the opposite direction to my feet and time has lost duration-flattened as if diluted by the sea.

Tonight, at 7pm, I will be speaking about my art as part of the Bushwick Art Crit  at the Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery (1st floor next to the cafe) at 119 Ingraham Street (cross is Porter).

Despecification of lonely routes not taken by Margaret WIthers

Camp Teton by Margaret Withers

black holes leaping in and out of existence by Margaret Withers

December 2013 Art Events

My artwork will be available at these Miami Art Fairs:  Aqua Art Fair with William Baczek Fine Art  and Scope Miami Art Fair with C. Emerson Fine Art – B-15 -both are currently up and running through Sunday, Dec. 8th.

I will also have several small works available  at the Jeffrey Leder Gallery in LIC, NY this weekend as part of his Salon Art Sale to celebrate the Holidays.

On another note – I’m one of the featured artist in the Winter/Spring LA Antioch Lunch Ticket Literary Journal.

Just a reminder you can get a free .pdf or .ebook of my solo show exhibition catalog (currently up at the Landau Gallery at Belmont Hills School, MA) by going to my website.

At Scope: she moves among us vacantly playing hand games; 2013; 30″x 22″

At Aqua: an opaque context was formed when the superheroes kissed; 2013; 22″x30″

small works available at Jeffrey Leder Gallery in LIC, Queens.

‘one mind’s imaging into another’, Solo Show at the Landau Gallery at Belmont Hills

Landau Gallery image of Margaret Withers’ solo show.

One mind’s imaging into another, is a collection of new work on linen by artist Margaret Withers that invites the viewer to draw a comparison between these two disparate ‘landscape’ painting styles.  The first group of paintings are hyper colorful, energetic and full of cosmic anxiety and  the second group primarily use muted colors to form a hypnotic landscape.    The show opens November 21st from 5pm-8pm and runs through December 18th, 2013 at the Landau Gallery at Belmont Hills School in Belmont, MA.

Below are a few of the paintings that are in the show.

blushing into epistemic humility; 2013; flashe vinyl paint and ink on linen; 72”x63”

strawberry flavored leptons dripped onto the fabric of space time; 2013; oil on canvas; 40″x40″

longer periods of lesser coincidence; 2013; oil on canvas; 40”x40”

Cosmic ruminations marshaled into minute particles; 2013; flashe vinyl paint and ink on canvas; 40”x40”

Cosmic ruminations marshaled into minute particles; 2013
flashe vinyl paint, oil and ink on canvas
40”x40”

Millay Colony Residency

I’m currently a resident at the Millay Colony for the arts for the month of November.  It was an honor to get selected as they only select about 60 artist, writers and/or composers for the whole year.  I’m here with a sculptor, photographer, 2 playwrights, a poet and a fiction writer – a very nice mix of people.  Below is an image of my studio and what I’ve been working on.  Followed by some shots of the Millay grounds.

These paintings will be in a solo show that I have at the Landau Gallery outside of Boston on Nov. 20th.

I’m working on linen with oil, flashe and ink while I’m here – the five small paintings on the left I brought to finish up.

I’m working on linen with oil, flashe and ink while I’m here – the five small paintings on the left I brought to finish up.

my studio

Millay Colony – view from my studio

Millay woods in the Fall

AS | AP DUMBO Group Show

Upcoming group show AS|AP  curated by Jill Conner.  The opening is on November 7th, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm, and will be up through November 29th at 2pm. This exhibition will take place in Gallery Room 212, located in the 111 Front Street building in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
Painting Title: On the six cornered snowflake Phidias did blow by Margaret Withers
2013;  gouache, watercolor, ink and enamel on paper; 44″x78″; $2500.00

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Seattle Affordable Art Fair, Nov. 6-10th, 2013

I will have several pieces available at the Seattle Affordable Art Fair at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall courtesy of Lori at C. Emerson Fine Arts, swing by her booth C-2 and say Hi.  Below is some of my artwork that will be available.

sudden prosperities of sunlight, 22″x30″

staring back from cumbersome towns; 46″x30″

despecification of lonely routes not taken; 46″x30″

Tell me about the killer swamp bunny Mr. President; 20″x14″

Abstraction Group Show at William Baczek Fine Arts

If you’re in MA there is still time to go see the Abstraction group show at William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA, it will be up until Nov. 10th.  Other artist in this show are Carrie Seid, Anne Lilly, Jaq Chartier, and Sean Green.

decisions will go awry, 31″x47″

Rising out snapping and sputtering, 22″x30″

whenever one begins to speculate, 30″x22″

#art, #Margaret_Withers, #ArtCollecting, #MassArt

wet yellow slickers at BAAF

I will be showing artwork again this year at the Brussels Accessible Art Fair, the weekend of October 10-13, at Steigenberger Grandhotel, Avenue Louise 71, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. I have a limited number of free passes please email me at mwithers.artwork@gmail.com if you would like to come.
Below are a few of the paintings that will be available.

‘twirling into her candy breathed light’ at Brussels Accessible Art Fair

‘June punch out’ at Accessible Art Fair

“wet yellow slickers abucing hypothetical storms’ at Accessible Art Fair

‘she sent him a warm and gentle wind’ at Accessible Art Fair

‘red little holes of delight then warning’

in linear time my memory is clear as day

dreamy for lupinus texensis while wind whipped skirts flutter up to bonnets bended

time complexity

There’s something really nice about having an art show in the town that you grew up in.  It’s odd, because I left Texas as soon as I could, and overtime, it has become a place that I miss more in the texture of my memories and in my ideas of the place, than in the hot muggy concreteness of its existence.  I feel on some level like I’ve been accepted and that maybe, I can go home again.

I’m excited that my work will be in a two person show, Striations, with artist Kia Neill curated by Diane Barber, at G Gallery 301 East 11th St., Houston, Texas Aug. 3rd-Sept 1st. Opening reception is Aug. 3rd,  6p-9p.  Come by and hang out with me if you’re around.

I also currently have work up at the Summer Group Shows at William Baczek Fine Arts  in Northampton, MA and Arcilesi |Homberg Fine Art in Brooklyn.

Below are some pieces that will be in the Striation show:

in linear time, my memory is clear as day by Margaret Withers 2013

still air trapped with buzz while fire light twinkles by Margaret Withers 2013

decisions will go awry by Margaret Withers 2013

dreamy for lupinus texensis while wind whipped skirts flutter up to bonnets bended by Margaret Withers 2013

what I’m currently working on in my studio

I’m currently working on this new large one (29″x41.5″) that I started a couple of days ago (I’m unsure of the final orientation) and this large painting – 47″x31″ that I’m almost done with and a couple of small paintings.

Margaret Withers – currently painting

Margaret Withers -painting in progress

currently painting these four small paintings

fluently mumbling

Tonight in Brooklyn is the reception for  Unhinged,  a salon style group show at Pierogi Gallery that highlights selections from the Pierogi flat files.   I will have a piece up and plan to attend if you would like to come by and have a beer.   Up through July 28th.  Reception is 7-9pm at 177 North 9th Street in Williamsburg.

At Pierogi -Eyewitness foul-ups of the neckerchief needlewoman; Watercolor, ink, and enamel on paper; 12 x 8.5

I also have a couple of pieces up at William Baczek Fine Art for his Summer group show.   36 Main St., Northampton MA.

At William Baczek, on the table, off and on, she fluently mumbled

 

 

 

Connecting the Dots

There’s a beautiful fountain in Spain designed by Calder that flows mercury.  It’s a trick of abstraction to see silver liquid flow from a fountain, as if you are looking at a black and white movie that has been partially colorized.    When art is sublime it can move us beyond ourselves, offering the same rewards as nature, a space to breath and a shift in perspective-a gift of kindness bestowed on by fireflies, shooting stars and ocean waves.

My artwork will be available at this upcoming four person show.

Connecting the Dots… at ISE Cultural Foundation, located at 555 Broadway (btw Prince and Spring), June 7th -July 5th; opening reception June 7th, 6p-8p, curated by Lovina Purple.

I also have a small piece in Jersey City at Curious Matter, as part of the A Time in Arcadia group show – open through June 23.

bars blocking the cosmos suspended in a vase of flowers
2012; 22″x 31.5″; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper

unbound in orbit, floating near unswept storehouses where sluttish tinkerer’s tinker
2012; 39″x 28″; watercolor, ink, enamel on paper

At Curious Matter –
many eyelash fortnights of navel gazing continuations followed

into star lake, letters falling into words

I have absolutely nothing to say about Margaret Withers.  Today, staring out my studio window at the Manhattan skyline lit by that warm east coast spring light, watching the school trucks leave their sheltered bus barn, and listening to the beeping of all the backing trucks, it seems, that at this moment, Into the inky star lake my words have fallen.

My artwork will be available at these upcoming group shows:

AS – Boom & Blum  at The Phatory, located at 618 East 9th St. (btw Ave B and C), May 3 – 31; opening reception May 3, 6p-9p, curated by Jill Conner.

Wide Open IV at BWAC, located at 76 Degraw St., Red Hook, Brooklyn, May 11 – June 16; opening reception May 11, 1p-6p, juried by Carrie Springer, curator at the Whitney Museum.

 

Das Wird Sich Alles Finden

Upcoming group shows where you can see my artwork:

Arts Collinwood is pleased to present, Das Wird Sich Alles Finden [everything will turn out alright]. The German title speaks to the origin of the exhibit. Curated by Christopher L. Richards.  Location: 15605 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44110
Exhibit Opening April 5, 6-9pm, show up April 1st-27th.

Gallery 263 Group Show curated by Laura Frances April 18-May 12.  Please check the website for the opening reception.  263 Pearl Street • Cambridge, MA • 02139

at Gallery 263- star throwing Centaurs reclining on the exomoons

At Arts Collinwood -fleeing Ike

at Arts Collinwood
blushing eastward where blue earth is gathered

at Arts Collinwood duchess pyjama cassowary shyly moved among the leaves