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Catch Your Breath Graphite, gesso, and acrylic on Hosho paper with polyester thread
Catch Your Breath Graphite, gesso, and acrylic on Hosho paper with polyester thread
Catch Your Breath Graphite, gesso, and acrylic on Hosho paper with polyester thread
Sponge, Place, Pin Collage, acrylic, copper leaf on paper handmade by artist, 13 x 9
Collaboration Acrylic and mixed media on paper handmade by artist 7 x 7
Demonstration Acrylic and mixed media on paper handmade by artist 9 x 12
Planted mixed media on paper 13.5 x 33
East Window Mixed media on paper, 24 X 18
West Window Mixed media on paper, 24 x 18
Swede Hollow Mixed media on paper, 24 x 18
The Old Neighborhood Thanked Her Mixed media on paper, 24 x 18
Moonlight on the Marquee Oil and mixed media on paper 11 X 15
Strolling Through Oil and mixed media on paper 11 X 15
Beyond Oil and mixed media on paper 11 X 15
Part of the Process Mixed media on paper, 20 x 16
In Reflection Mixed media on paper, 18 x 24
Passing Trains Mixed media on paper, 16 x 20
Open Water Mixed media on gessoed map, 8.5 X 11
Acres Mixed media on gessoed map, 8.5 X 11
Legend Mixed media on gessoed map, 8.5 X 11
Resources Mixed media on gessoed map, 8.5 X 11
Margi Grill’s work documents how landscape exists in an urban environment. Inspired by ecological concerns of land-use and access to green spaces, each painting aims to start a conversation about our modern relationship to the natural world. Margi was granted an Artist Participation Scholarship to Split Rock Arts Program in 2005. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in painting and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Art History from the University of Minnesota. She is currently experimenting with interactive installations that mimic her own sense of discovery and understanding.
Artist Statement: As an artist I have focused my practice on reinterpreting traditional landscape painting to include the environments we experience everyday. I am drawn to areas where human-made spaces overlap with areas permitted to grow wild. I am also interested in how those boundaries have shifted through generations and continue to change. My process involves diluting water-soluble oils to create a translucent wash and letting it spill over the surface. The landscapes I depict are built up through layers of color and texture with layers of observational drawing, wavering several times between precise realism and gestural abstraction.