The working of my imagination left in solitude, simmered in anxiety, immune to self-judgement and away from the connections and chatter of technology has unlimited possibilities to grow as if it were a virus in a petri dish disguising its activity until it becomes its own pandemic taking over my plain white sheet of paper.
I would like to invite you to come see several pieces of my artwork at the upcoming Fountain Art Fair in NYC at the Armory March 9-11 courtesy of Art for Progress and FAFA . The following weekend, March 18 I’ll have some pieces in the BWAC‘s, Wide Open Three show in Red Hook, Brooklyn. See you there!
At Fountain - Art for Progress - "the Sun itself is solitary" 66"x50"; Watercolor, Ink and Enamel on Paper
At Fountain- Art for Progress,"the nuisance of a single thought",48”x33.5”, watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
At Fountain - FAFA -"dithering and diddering to the docken she went to pick some dogfinkil",15”x15”;unframed; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
At Fountain - FAFA -"sun dogs in the sky",30"x41"; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
At Fountain - FAFA - "Slipping Summer"; 12"x 8.5" unframed, watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
At BWAC-Wide Open show - "a warm stellar wind" 50"x50"; Watercolor, Ink and Enamel on paper
At BWAC- Wide Open Show - "the Exponents turn to mock us" 10"x12"; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
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About Margaret Withers
For my works on paper I layer multiple colors of watercolor and ink based their different levels of viscosity and texture onto a white background to form the "landscape" or "machine" of my antistory. The high gloss enamel shaped mouths and large staring eyes balanced within offer a hint of who the characters are and what they might be moving toward, fleeing from or watching intently. In sharp contrast to the color of the cantilever lines and shapes - exist flat black and white houses and telephone poles which add a sense of taking place in a kind of separate "once-upon-a-time" world that seems to delight in the inventiveness of creative play, creating a mythical world/machine that is both playful and disquieting. This series is influenced by my childhood in the rural American South of the 1970's and depicts the interplay between that remembered physical landscape of my childhood and my emotional landscape past and present. My artistic intent is to explore what an image of an American antistory would look like, to build upon it and to leave it open for interpretation.
I was born in Austin, Texas and currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
Notes on selected artists from "New American Painters" ed 92, by curator Laura Hoptman.
"Many of the narrative paintings in this selection have rejected solipsism in favor of a more direct, more relatable manner of storytelling, or of shaping a subject. In the best work, there is an alchemy of realism and generalization, of detail and abbreviation, of timeliness and timelessness."
Please take a look at my artwork at: http://www.margaretwithers.com
Your work really blew me away! Wonderful, powerful stuff! Thanks for posting.