- Margaret Evangeline
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Margaret Evangeline (born 1943, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a post minimalist painter, video, performance, and installation artist who "achieved notice with bullet-riddled paintings".[1] Evangeline’s diverse practice includes large-scale site-specific installations using mirror-like surfaces in unprecedented ways that seem both fragile and aggressive. In these installations, viewers can find their reflections moving through bullet-marked environments of woods[2] or water,[3] with outcomes sometimes documented in Evangeline’s videos. The installations became linked with environmental art,[4] 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.[5]
As a process artist[6] her work began to evolve to include autobiographical elements,[7] which distinguishes her work from other process art. Her career-spanning monograph will soon appear from Charta[8]
Materials and Techniques
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 "
- ^ Dominique Nahas, "New Work of Margaret Evangeline: Achieving Punctuation" [1]"
- ^ BBC News "[2]"
- ^ Malcolm Jones, "Toward a New New Orleans," Newsweek, April 26, 2008 "[3]"
- ^ Linda Yablonsky, The New York Times, T Magazine, "Cottage Industry" September 26, 2008 "[4]"
- ^ Absolute Arts "[5]"
- ^ Koan Jeff Baysa, "Ricochets and Tangled Trajectories," Art Slant, December 2009 "[6]"
- ^ Charta Art Books "[7]"
External links
Categories:- 1943 births
- Living people
- People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Artists from Louisiana
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