Margaret Evangeline
Margaret Evangeline | |
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| Born | 1943 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of New Orleans |
| Known for | Sculpture, Painting |
| Movement | post-minimalist, performance, and installation artist |
| Website | Official website |
Margaret Evangeline (born 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a post-minimalist painter, video, performance, and installation artist notied for her bullet-riddled paintings.[1]
Life
Evangeline was born in Baton Rouge, LA, and lived in New Orleans before moving to New York in 1992. Evangeline received her M.F.A. and B.A. from the University of New Orleans. Evangeline has had more than forty solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad and has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the ART/OMI Foundation Artist in Residence.[2]
Works
Evangeline’s diverse practice includes large-scale site-specific installations using mirror-like surfaces. In these installations, viewers can find their reflections moving through bullet-marked environments of woods[3] or water,[4] with outcomes sometimes documented in Evangeline’s videos. The installations became linked with environmental art,[5] as the shot mirror polished stainless steel panels she is known for begin as a performance in either the woods, the New Mexico landscape, or the sky, which are mirrored in the context of the artwork. In New Orleans, she filled a cottage with fertile dirt from the Mississippi River, which sprouted new growth from seeds she planted.[6]
As a process artist[7] her work began to evolve to include autobiographical elements,[8] which distinguishes her work from other process art. Her career-spanning monograph was published by Charta[9] in 2011. Including an essay by Edward Lucie-Smith and an interview by Dominique Nahas, it was reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail article 'Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass'[10]
Sabachthani,[11] a book of photographs, essays and poetry centered around a project Evangeline carried out in collaboration with her son's military unit in Iraq, was also published by Charta[9] in November 2012.
Materials and Techniques
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Mirror polished Stainless Steel and Gunshot
Foilfaced insulation punctured with High Heels
Rectangular Extruded Aluminum Pipe
Metallic paint on canvas
References
- ^ D. Dominick Lombardi, Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2010 "
- ^ "Heriard Cimino". Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Dominique Nahas, "New Work of Margaret Evangeline: Achieving Punctuation"
- ^ BBC News
- ^ Malcolm Jones, "Toward a New New Orleans," Newsweek, April 26, 2008
- ^ Linda Yablonsky, The New York Times, T Magazine, "Cottage Industry" September 26, 2008
- ^ Absolute Arts
- ^ Koan Jeff Baysa, "Ricochets and Tangled Trajectories," Art Slant, December 2009
- ^ a b Charta Art Books
- ^ Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass
- ^ Sabachtani on Amazon
External links
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Artists from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Artists from New York City
- Painters from New York
- American women sculptors
- American women painters
- University of New Orleans alumni
- American women video artists
- American women installation artists
- American women performance artists
- 20th-century American painters
- 21st-century American painters
- American performance artists
- American installation artists
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 20th-century women artists
- 21st-century women artists