If you are a painter, you no doubt know the joy of gazing upon piles of paint freshly squeezed from their tubes. Perhaps you’ve admired the loveliness to be found on your palette after a day of painting, when the colors have mixed together in a riotous symphony. The work of this month’s Facebook Featured Artist, Seattle’s Margie Livingston straddles the worlds of painting and sculpture, in which the paint becomes sculpture.
Painting Folded Into a Square, acrylic, 20x20x4
Using paint both as medium and subject, Livingston’s work transforms what is normally a two-dimensional vehicle into one that exists in three-dimensions. No longer content to merely represent an image of an object, the paint actually takes on an object’s shape.
Plank, acrylic, 97 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 3 1/2
Coiled Layered Strip, acrylic, 9x9x3
Negative Cube, acrylic, 8x14x14
Margie’s Painted Objects has taken center stage at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle ( supported in part by a 4Culture Individual Artist Project Grant and a CityArtist Project grant from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture ) and will be on exhibit through November 10th. Go see it!! I’ll be far away in California, so I can’t go, which means you MUST!
To see more of Margie Livingston’s incredible painted sculptures, please visit her website and be sure to check out her gorgeous cover image and album on the Artsy Forager Facebook page.
Featured image is 90 Color Test, acrylic and grommets, 90 squares at 8×8 each, 78×96 overall. All images are via the artist’s website and the website of Greg Kucera Gallery.
