Margie Livingston

Painting

Acrylic

Oil Painting

Sculpture

Paint Objects

Extreme Landscape Painting

Extreme Landscape Painting contains the artist’s exploration of her own brand of landscape painting. Using what she refers to as “a hybrid of Action Painting and performance,” the artist drags painted canvases and panels across various terrains– parking lots and sidewalks, fields and hiking trails. The resulting scratches, gouges, and scrapes are the effects of the landscape physically coming into contact with the artist’s work.

“I feel an affinity to Michael Heizer's use of drawing when he carved circles in the desert with his motorcycle. I too am claiming land as artist's materials, but I'm using the ground to inscribe the surface of the paint.

“I see this work as non-painting painting, seeking ways to surprise myself and expand the possibilities for my chosen medium. Inherent in my process is that the ideas change and evolve as I get into the work.”

– Margie Livingston

Work on Paper

Drawing

Prints

About

Exhibitions

Left Turn, February 17 - April 2, 2022

Extreme Landscape Painting, November 1 - December 22, 2018

Too Soon For Hindsight, July 7 - August 20, 2016

Poured, Sliced, Draped, May 22 - June 28, 2014

Paint Objects, October 4 - November 10, 2012

Riff - New Paintings, November 19 – December 24, 2009

Hybrid: Paintings, March 15 – April 28, 2007

Structure: New Paintings, April 7 - May 14, 2005

Introductions: New Paintings, January 8 - February 29, 2004

  • Margie Livingston received her MFA from the University of Washington. In 2001, a Fulbright Scholarship allowed her to study in Germany. She was the 2006 recipient of the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. In 2010, Livingston received both the Neddy Artist Fellowship for Painting and the Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust, Seattle, WA. Her work is in the collections of Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Whatcom Museum, and Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.

  • April 24, 2024
    The Seattle Times
    From Salvador Dalí to local artists, must-see Seattle exhibits in May
    by Margo Vansynghel

    January 2, 2024
    The Seattle Times
    Most anticipated Seattle exhibits of 2024
    by Margo Vansynghel

    September 4, 2024
    Seattle Refined
    From Trash to artistic treasures: Meet Recology Artist in Residence, Margie Livingston
    by Jenise Silva

    November 30, 2018

    Seattle Magazine
    
15 Best Things To Do in Seattle in December 2018
    
by Gavin Borchert

    November 20, 2018
    
Crosscut (Now Cascade PBS)
    
In Seattle galleries, Art Meets Climate Change
    by Brangien Davis

    December 2, 2018
    
ÆQAI

    "Calling to mind the way we are ground down by the process of living. Margie Livingston at Greg Kucera Gallery”
    
by Martha Dunham

    December 2018
    Visual Art Source
    Exhibition Recommendation “…Continues to re-invent the nature of painting…"

    by Matthew Kangas

    December 5, 2018

    The Stranger
    
“Margie Livingston Dragged Her New Paintings Facedown Through Bellevue”

    by Jasmyne Keimig

    April 29, 2014

    Studio Critical
    
“A Behind the Scenes Approach to Contemporary Painting.”

    by Valerie Brennan

    November 23, 2013
    Beautiful/Decay
    “Lynda Benglis And 6 Contemporary Artists Sculpt With Paint
“
    by Kristin Bauer

    October 4 - November 10, 2012

    New American Paintings Blog
    “Alchemy of Paint: A Studio Visit with Margie Livingston and Isaac Quigley”

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