Margaret Withers
sun dogs in the sky, 2012
Watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
30"x42"
Courtesy of the artist
MARGARET WITHERS
PAINTING THE AMERICAN ANTI-STORY
November 4 - December 1, 2012
Opening Reception November 8 and 9 from 6-9pm at 111 Front St. Suite 222, DUMBO, NY 11201
Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Margaret Withers. The exhibition, Painting the American Anti-Story, is the artist’s first solo show at the gallery and will include approximately fifteen paintings dating from 2011 to the present.
Painting the American Anti-Story is Withers' ongoing works on paper project that strives to open a space between the viewer and the art, and between the point of recognition of an identifiable form and the abstract. By ignoring the structural conventions of traditional narrative paintings, Withers’ anti-story paintings interrupt the flow of abstract shapes and forms with familiar shapes causing a pause in the viewing pace, as if a lightning strike across the setting of an implied narrative. This pause causes a flash of possibilities for a story by suggesting a direction that the viewer can take in forming a narrative. Utilizing a static iconography of a quickly becoming American past of erect and sometimes teetering wooden telephone poles and shrunken houses, that are immersed between the cacophonous daubs and dots of color, the informative floating eyeballs, and the pockets of space - Withers propels the viewer into her imaginative landscape.
Margaret Withers was born in Austin, Texas in 1965. Her father worked in the oil industry and because of the nature of the work they moved frequently, Withers’ dealt with this constant change by casting herself as both playwright and lead actor in countless fictions. She attended Texas A&M University where she received a BA in Literature.
She moved to Colorado in 1991 and worked primarily in hand-built porcelain objects. In 1998 she started a series of mixed-media oil paintings with bronze cast porcelain heads pushed into the canvas.
In 2004 she attended CU Boulder’s MFA program but did not matriculate, instead deciding to move to New York City in 2006. In 2011 she started working primarily on paper with watercolor, ink and enamel on an overlapping series that explores migration, identity, belonging and the American anti-story. She has won numerous fellowships and awards for best in show, best watercolor and artist of distinction.
Her art has shown extensively in the US, and internationally in Europe, China and Moscow.
ARCILESI | HOMBERG FINE ART
111 Front St. Suite 222
Brooklyn
New York, NY 11201
T: 1-347-743-4132
ARCILESI | HOMBERG FINE ART
ARCILESI | HOMBERG FINE ART, Brooklyn, New York
sun dogs in the sky, 2012
Watercolor, ink and enamel on paper
30"x42"
Courtesy of the artist
MARGARET WITHERS
PAINTING THE AMERICAN ANTI-STORY
November 4 - December 1, 2012
Opening Reception November 8 and 9 from 6-9pm at 111 Front St. Suite 222, DUMBO, NY 11201
Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Margaret Withers. The exhibition, Painting the American Anti-Story, is the artist’s first solo show at the gallery and will include approximately fifteen paintings dating from 2011 to the present.
Painting the American Anti-Story is Withers' ongoing works on paper project that strives to open a space between the viewer and the art, and between the point of recognition of an identifiable form and the abstract. By ignoring the structural conventions of traditional narrative paintings, Withers’ anti-story paintings interrupt the flow of abstract shapes and forms with familiar shapes causing a pause in the viewing pace, as if a lightning strike across the setting of an implied narrative. This pause causes a flash of possibilities for a story by suggesting a direction that the viewer can take in forming a narrative. Utilizing a static iconography of a quickly becoming American past of erect and sometimes teetering wooden telephone poles and shrunken houses, that are immersed between the cacophonous daubs and dots of color, the informative floating eyeballs, and the pockets of space - Withers propels the viewer into her imaginative landscape.
Margaret Withers was born in Austin, Texas in 1965. Her father worked in the oil industry and because of the nature of the work they moved frequently, Withers’ dealt with this constant change by casting herself as both playwright and lead actor in countless fictions. She attended Texas A&M University where she received a BA in Literature.
She moved to Colorado in 1991 and worked primarily in hand-built porcelain objects. In 1998 she started a series of mixed-media oil paintings with bronze cast porcelain heads pushed into the canvas.
In 2004 she attended CU Boulder’s MFA program but did not matriculate, instead deciding to move to New York City in 2006. In 2011 she started working primarily on paper with watercolor, ink and enamel on an overlapping series that explores migration, identity, belonging and the American anti-story. She has won numerous fellowships and awards for best in show, best watercolor and artist of distinction.
Her art has shown extensively in the US, and internationally in Europe, China and Moscow.
ARCILESI | HOMBERG FINE ART
111 Front St. Suite 222
Brooklyn
New York, NY 11201
T: 1-347-743-4132
ARCILESI | HOMBERG FINE ART
ARCILESI | HOMBERG FINE ART, Brooklyn, New York
