Margaret Garrett has two daughters, the singer-songwriter Juliet Garrett and the sculptor and mixed media artist Katya Wolosoff.
10 Facts About Margaret Garrett
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Margaret Garrett, born in North Carolina and raised in Pennsylvania, began her artistic career as a dancer.
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Margaret Garrett undertook private study with the artist Thorpe Feidt and studied drawing at the Art Students League in New York City.
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Margaret Garrett's work has been compared to the artists Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Mark Tobey.
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Many of these influences are evident in Margaret Garrett's series Tuning Fields, a collection of textural paintings that the artist began in 2008 and which includes over 300 individual works.
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In 2017, Margaret Garrett returned to dancing as a way to inspire new works: She began filming herself dancing and using the video clips to create moving collages.
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Margaret Garrett took this approach to dance-informed visual work one step further in the project The19, which includes a video, two groups of collages, and a suite of seven woodblock and chine colle prints.
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Margaret Garrett then translated the abstract gestures of the poses to a painted collage.
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Margaret Garrett's work has been included in the Armory Show, Art on Paper, the Dallas Art Fair, and the Contemporary Print Fair at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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Margaret Garrett's work is held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe, as well as in museum collections at the Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall museum of East Hampton.