On a sheet of paper I pour a line. The randomness of the line becomes a freedom for form; sometimes it become a lever, an arm, a piece of machinery, the ground swept prairie with a house and a telephone pole, and either an openness or an unconstrained bustle.
If you are in New York in April I would like to invite you to come see several pieces of my artwork at the upcoming Affordable Art Fair in NYC, April 18th-22nd at 6 W. 35st, courtesy of Galerie Juliane Hundertmark, Booth E6. On Monday, April 23, I’ll have artwork at the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Buy What you Love 2012 Fundraiser at The Hole at 312 Bowery St. from 6:30-9:30pm.
in a tinderbox jumble she set upon slipping into her escape
2012; 22 x 31.5 in; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
Attack of the Lyman-alpha blob
2012; 22 x 31.5 in; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
Dancing, twirling and spinning in the antiblue
2012; 31.5 x 22 in; watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
staring out at absolute space
2012; 22x31.5; 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
