From R-L: Still from Canon, 2023. Video, courtesy Margaret Garett; Anima 2019, Photo by Margaret Garrett; Margaret Garrett photo by Jenny Gorman.
Tickets
General Ticket: $10
Members: Free, RSVP Required
Deepen your appreciation for the beauty of line, shape, and form with artist Margaret Garrett. A former dancer turned visual artist, Garrett will discuss her inspirations and her process in the creation of Canon, a video that is representative of her movement-based work. Learn how Garrett began making videos as a way to find shapes for her paintings and how this evolution led to the development of a new visual language for her—video collages that explore movement, shape, and the unfolding of contrapuntal patterns. Following the discussion there will be a spirited Q&A.
Garrett’s Canon will be on view as part of Here & There – The First Churchennial, our fall exhibition, and can be seen ahead of the talk during our exhibition hours Thursday-Monday, 11 AM to 5 PM, beginning October 5th.
MARGARET GARRETT
Photo by Bruce Wolosoff
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Margaret Garrett is an interdisciplinary American artist whose practice includes painting, collage, printmaking, and video art. She grew up training to be a dancer and joined a professional ballet company at the age of 16. In her early twenties, she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color and switched her focus to visual art.
Margaret Garrett's work is held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. She has exhibited in New York City at Planthouse, Danese/Corey, the FLAG Art Foundation, and Birnam Wood Gallery. Recent achievements in large-scale public work include a 40-foot glass mural commissioned by NYU Langone Art Program and fabricated in collaboration with Peters Studio in Germany. Museum collections include Blanton Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Collection, The Leiber Collection, and Guild Hall Museum.