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RECENT PRESS:
Gayle Clemans/The Seattle Times:
"'Show of Hands' offers plenty of substance at the hands of the Northwest's female artists"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2012490708&zsection_id=2003960242&slug=women31&date=20100730
Jason Lahr, Curator, South Bend Museum of Art, wall text for Surface Tension:
"Margie Livingston makes paintings (or are they sculptures?) that form a paradox. Presented as objects but crafted from acrylic paint, Livingston plays fast and loose with the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Simultaneously, these works reflect a literal disassembly of the surface of abstract painting as well as a wry reinvention of Abstract Expressionism's fixation on paint as material"
Barbara Matilsky, Curator of Art, Whatcom Museum: “Every so often, an art critic claims that ‘painting is dead,’ that it can’t be pushed any further—there’s nothing new to explore. Livingston’s work says otherwise, both in the way she experiments with paint and the compositions that result.”
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Suzanne Beal: "Northwest artist Margie Livingston has long been admired for her paintings of objects from the natural world. But in "Riff: New Paintings" she proves she's a sculptor as well— albeit a sculptor of paint." http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=27&aID=267
Jen Graves: "Yes, Livingston's wearing her debts on her sleeve in these new works, but let's see where she's going." http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/12/04/thoughts-from-last-nights-artwalk
Regina Hackett: "She uses it to dissect her representations, to pool her resources and to chart a lyrical course through light, space, form and time."
http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2009/11/margie-livingston---paint-in-t.html
Joey Veltkamp:
“...it's quite a small group of folks who have won both the Betty Bowen and the Neddy”
http://joeyveltkamp.blogspot.com/2010/04/margie-livingston-2010-neddy-artist.html
"I went to Margie Livingston's talk yesterday (along with about 50 other folks!)" http://joeyveltkamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/margie-livingston-artist-talk.html
"And what began as a happy accident (as much great art does), has now been developed into a really interesting new body of 3-D work."
http://joeyveltkamp.blogspot.com/2009/11/margie-livingston-and-akio-takamori.html
Susanna Bluhm: "It’s as though the paint has been forced from the canvas into “room air” and must now be on life support in order to survive. In her hands, and in this space, it’s not only surviving– it’s thriving." http://gettingtoknowyoubetter.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/making-the-magic-of-painting-one-piece-of-paint-at-a-time-margie-livingston-at-greg-kucera
Ryan Molenkamp: "Call them painting sculptures, sculptural paintings, paint installations... call them what you will, they are delightful and interesting to look at, which is no easy thing. Check it out." http://molosketchbook.blogspot.com/2009/11/art-quickie-7-margie-livingston-kucera.html
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Surface Tension
A group show that focuses on the ways that contemporary painting draws from, subverts, and adds to its own history.
South Bend Museum of Art
October 2, 2010 – January 8, 2011
South Bend, IN
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2011
Repertoire
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, 2011
Chicago, IL
Kittredge Gallery, 2011
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA
PAST EVENTS:
Honoring 15 Years of Neddy Artist Fellows
Tacoma Art Museum
June 5 – August 22, 2010
Tacoma, WA
Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010
Whatcom Museum
April 24 – August 8, 2010
Bellingham, WA
SOIL in Residence
Seattle Design Center
March 14 – May 28, 2010
Seattle, WA
Riff: New Paintings
Greg Kuceara Gallery
November 19 – December 24, 2009
Seattle, WA
Shenzhen Fine Art Institute
August 18–28, 2008
Shenzhen, China
Aqua Art Miami
December 4–7, 2008
Miami Beach, Florida
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
University of Washington
January 2009
Seattle, WA
Art Miami
December 5–9, 2007
Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
ArtTalk Series
Gage Academy
November 8, 2007
Seattle, WA
Richard Levy Gallery
July 20 – August 31, 2007
Albuquerque, NM
Public Dialogues with Artists and Mathematicians
Shift Gallery
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Seattle, WA
Hybrid
Greg Kucera Gallery
March 15 – April 28, 2007
Seattle, WA
Aqua Art Miami Beach
December 7–10, 2006
Miami Beach, Florida
The Flattening and Opening of Space
In collaboration with Carrie Bodle
New Works Laboratory, 911 Media Arts Center
September 12 – October 27, 2006
Seattle, WA
All in the Painted View
Museum of Northwest Art
July 15 – October 8, 2006
La Conner, WA
Exploded View
SOIL
August 3–27, 2006
Seattle, WA
Archer Gallery
September 19 – October 22, 2006
Clark College, Vancouver, WA
SOIL 1995-2005: A Retrospective
SOIL
October 6–30, 2005
Seattle, WA
UW School of Art Alumni Award Exhibition
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
October 25 – November 12, 2005
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The Structure Paintings
Greg Kucera Gallery
April 7 – May 14, 2005
Seattle, WA
Northwest Biennial: Buildingwise
Curated by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Tacoma Art Museum
April 17 – August 29, 2004
Tacoma, WA
An Introduction
Greg Kucera Gallery
January 8 – February 29, 2004
Seattle, WA
The Last Judgment Project
Bumbershoot Arts Festival
August 26 – September 1, 2003
Seattle, WA
Fulbright Project
I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work in Germany from September 2001 through July 2002. More...
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