Margaret Garrett
Margaret Garrett is an interdisciplinary American artist whose practice includes painting, collage, printmaking, and video art. She grew up training to be a dancer and joined a professional ballet company at the age of 16. In her early twenties, she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color and switched her focus to visual art.
Margaret Garrett's work is held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. She has exhibited in New York City at Planthouse, Danese/Corey, the FLAG Art Foundation, and Birnam Wood Gallery. Recent achievements in large-scale public work include a 40-foot glass mural commissioned by NYU Langone Art Program and fabricated in collaboration with Peters Studio in Germany. Museum collections include Blanton Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Collection, The Leiber Collection, and Guild Hall Museum.
In my abstract paintings, collages, and video work, I stay connected to the body through the quality of line and form. Dance was my first identity and mode of expression as an artist and informs my approach to visual art. I view the canvas as an empty stage, and the line as movement.
Through gestural drawings and layers of color, I create work that evokes the dynamic flow of music and dance. The calligraphic textures within my pieces are contrapuntal, creating interwoven rhythms and tensions.
I believe that energy flows through both the universe and art, and I try to capture that connection in my work. Each piece becomes a way to explore the unseen rhythms and beauty of the universe. — MG
Dancing in the Street, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 60” x 74”
Yellow Poem, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 60” x 74”
Dance of the Muses, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 60” x 74”
Hymn, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 35” x 77”
Serenade, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 35” x 77”
Blue Nebula, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 35” x 77”
Turquoise Rhythm, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 57” x 66”
Asemic Drawing (white on grey), 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 29” x 41”
Rhythm in Blue, 2023, Acrylic on Linen, 29” x 41”
Meditation, 2024, Acrylic on Linen, 51” x 66”