Beauty in the Decline

Opening Reception    March 30th, 2019    4pm-7pm
Closing Reception      May 4th, 2019          4pm-7pm
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Show runs from -
March 30th, 2019 - May 4th, 2019
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Artist - Margaret Curnow

​STATEMENT

My body of work reflects a synthesis of multiple experiences merged into singular moments. I’m interested in how we process and retain experiences and use those experiences as an
anchor point in order to better understand an idea or experience through re-creating. My work is a response to the state of our Contemporary world and allows viewers a space to contemplate issues pertaining to absence, presence, nostalgia, experience, and history. My process explores the enigmatic and sometimes meager qualities of our environments. I am interested in the ambiguity of experience and finding the beauty in the mundane. Many of my paintings are on the verge of breaking down or slowly vanishing but each piece manages to find harmony between each element. I use mixed media techniques as a way to express the recording of an experience. Through use of layering, peeling, scraping and shifting of depth and perspective, I explore the process of how we retain experiences and how our environments are effected by change and the passing of time. I’m interested in the state of being and the aftermath of what was once there…

​BIOGRAPHY

Margaret Curnow (b. Whitesboro, NY, 1987) is a visual artist based in Baltimore, MD. She is completing her final year in the MFA LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting program at the Maryland Institute College of Art with a critical studies concentration (2019). She holds a Masters in Art Education from Boston University (2013), Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art from Brandeis University (2015), and a Bachelors in Art Education from Flagler College (2009). She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions including Arts @ 29 Garden Gallery at Harvard University, Craven Arts Council and Gallery in New Bern, NC, Gallery Underground in Arlington, VA, Drietzer Gallery at Brandeis University, Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, FL, St. Augustine Art Association in St. Augustine, FL, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery in Tampa, FL, Art Pool Gallery in St. Petersburg, FL, and Riggs Leidy Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Additionally, her work has been featured in the 2018 winter edition of Studio Visit magazine. Margaret is pleased to show her work in an upcoming Solo Exhibition; Beauty in the Decline (March 2019) at Gallery Blue Door in Baltimore, MD.

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