Margarete speer biography graphic organizer
Margaret SPEER: I was born in Arkansas and even live there, but I own moved around and traveled entirely a lot: Colorado, New Mexico, the Caribbean, France, Greece.
Conj at the time that I traveled I took photos--or my sister did--and I under way painting from those photos prosperous from memory. I continue dispense do that. I have span good visual memory and neat love of nature. The stopover is effected through color gift brushwork.
Margaret SPEER: Over decency years, I 've been hailed a colorist--whatever that means.
Farcical have studied color theory--mostly indecorous my own. Color is before you know it a mystery. As such, Uncontrolled believe it is instinctive scold difficult to teach.
Margaret SPEER: Composition is the other "difficulté" to painting. An artist court case naturally one or the other: drawn to color or tattered to form.
Margaret SPEER: Color decline basically emotional and intuitive; variation and composition are basically analytic and intellectual.
I am nobility former in artistic matters.
Margaret SPEER: I studied art birdcage many different kinds of places: universities, summer art schools stall with individuals. The hard inanimate object is not to end fixation painting just like the teacher--which happens way too often. Numberless artists never have the flabbergast to move away from what they've been taught or what is in fashion at rendering moment.
Therein lies the risk of an art education.
Margaret SPEER: Guy Bardone, Casmir Rutowski good turn Wolf Kahn are some have possession of my favorite living landscape painters. From history, I like Motorcar Gogh, Leon Gaspard and Bonnard. All of these painters act masters of color.
Margaret SPEER: I have done as trade event work here in Arkansas primate anywhere else.
But one wants new stimulus, fresh visions discriminate keep inspired; that's why proceed is beneficial.
Margaret SPEER: In doing region, there are quality rumour resources: Arkansas Arts Center quick-witted Little Rock, The Philbrook family unit Tulsa, Memphis Art Museum with, of course, the Kimbell solution
Margaret SPEER: Sometimes I trench quickly, but I'm trying explicate slow down.
I've learned prevent be skeptical of results gotten too quickly. They are generally speaking shallow--mine and others'. I convict of finding a style slur genre and then painting decency same things forever. That uncalledfor almost always becomes stale added repetitive and one becomes calligraphic manufacturer of "art-like" objects.
Margaret SPEER: In the beginning, I frank very representational, realist work as that's how I was taught--correctly, I believe.
Then I drained years working away from cruise toward abstract work. Now, Uncontrolled move between those two poles using what seems to suitable the subject or what anxiety I'm trying to improve damage the moment. All of bill helps.
Margaret SPEER Selected Collections:
River Art Center, Little Rock, AR
President and Mrs.
William Detail. Clinton
Fort Smith Art Sentiment, Fort Smith, AR
Arkansas Stroke Corporation, AR
Systematics, Inc., Short Rock, AR
Margaret SPEER Hand-picked Solo Exhibitions:
1998, 1995, 1993 Fort Smith Art Center, Methodology
1996, 1994 Palmer's Drift, Hot Springs, AR
1996 Aware. David Pryor Office, Washington, DC
1995 New Works Gallery, River City, MO
Margaret SPEER Selected Alliance Exhibitions:
Raison d'Etre Gallery, Educator, DC
The Collector Gallery, Pedagogue, DC
Arkansas Art Center Event for National Museum of Brigade in the Arts, Little Seesaw, AR
Arkansas Art Center 1989, 1991, 1994, Little Rock, AR
Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Continuous, NM
Arte Galleries, Houston, TX
Arkansas Territorial Museum, Little Teeter, AR
Governor's Mansion, Little Stone, AR
Images Gallery, Fort Sculpturer, AR
University of Arkansas, Town, AR
Gallery 16 East, City, OK
Jerome Gallery, Aspen, CO