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Margo Magid BFA (Energy Gallery's Membership Award)
Margo Magid works in oil, acrylic, sumi, collage, photography and digital media – often in combination. She has studied painting with Koho Yamamoto, C. C. Wang, Amalie Rothschild, Grace Hartigan, Sam Francis and Hilton Brown.
Education: She believes art is a story well-told. In this age, our personal landscapes are limitless, and artists become what they see and the stories they tell. She is interested in combining artistic disciplines to tell those stories, and from the beginning of her career she has explored connections between word and image. For the past several years, she has painted warscapes: landscapes of war that she has seen, remembered or envisioned. These warscapes reach for those indelible moments on the battlefield where everything is possible, even ecstasy. Her involvement began during the time she spent in the Middle East and Central Asia, and intensified with Desert Storm, witnessing Ground Zero and examining subsequent military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq closely. Artist’s statement: on the series Paradise Now In this age our personal landscapes are limitless. We swim in facts, imagery and dialogue that make life-transforming events intimate. We have broken through historical boundaries of person, time, place and relevance. We become what we see. And so, each of us knows war. We know aggressor, target, hero, ally and enemy.We know wars fought at home, on foreign soil, in political shadows, in our hearts or on MSNBC. We incorporate the language of war into our most intimate conversations. Knowledge of war is woven into our personal and collective memories. We are all embedded.
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