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September Issue 2005
Silver Fox Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, Features Works by Margaret Scanlan
An exhibit
of color fields by Margaret Scanlan opens at the Silver Fox Gallery
on Sept. 2 entitled, Toward Perfect Balance. The exhibit
will be on view through Oct. 6, 2005.
Scanlan has been painting color fields for more than thirty-five years. "I return to them over and over, aiming for perfect balance and images in which you can become lost," she says. Her paintings are rich and strong in color and technique, yet provide a place for calm contemplation.
Scanlan's work has been described as "a decadent view of nature" with "much to offer if one lets go of trying to figure it out and instead embraces its mystery."
An artist of national and international renown, Scanlan is influenced by Mark Rothko, abstract expressionism, and Gerhard Richter. "The looseness of Scanlan's brushwork both gives a sense of movement and tangibility," wrote critic Nandini Makrandi. "One can see the spontaneity and gesture of the abstract expressionists in the way Scanlan intuitively builds up paint and color, and Richter's restlessness is palpable in the way Scanlan struggles with questions of plurality in style, the idea of beauty in art, and the ability to achieve on canvas what is in the mind's eye of the artist."
Scanlan's work is in the permanent collection of the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL, the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, MO, and in numerous corporate and private collections in the United States, England, Ireland and France. She studied at Mundelein College (Loyola University) and the Museum School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
Scanlan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Webster University, where she studied with sculptor Rudolph Torrini. Her graduate degree is from the University of Tennessee, where she had her first solo gallery exhibition in 1981.
A signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and the Watercolor USA Honor Society, Scanlan has work in numerous private and corporate collections.
The artist lives with her husband in Knoxville, TX.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/698-0601 or at (www.silverfoxartgallery.com).
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