Margie Livingston
Painting • Sculpture • Works on Paper • About
Painting
Acrylic / Egg Tempera
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
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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.
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April 24, 2024
The Seattle Times
From Salvador Dalí to local artists, must-see Seattle exhibits in May
by Margo VansynghelJanuary 2, 2024
The Seattle Times
Most anticipated Seattle exhibits of 2024
by Margo VansynghelSeptember 4, 2024
Seattle Refined
From Trash to artistic treasures: Meet Recology Artist in Residence, Margie Livingston
by Jenise SilvaNovember 30, 2018
Seattle Magazine
15 Best Things To Do in Seattle in December 2018
by Gavin BorchertNovember 20, 2018
Crosscut (Now Cascade PBS)
In Seattle galleries, Art Meets Climate Change
by Brangien DavisDecember 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 DunhamDecember 2018
Visual Art Source
Exhibition Recommendation “…Continues to re-invent the nature of painting…"
by Matthew KangasDecember 5, 2018
The Stranger
“Margie Livingston Dragged Her New Paintings Facedown Through Bellevue”
by Jasmyne KeimigApril 29, 2014
Studio Critical
“A Behind the Scenes Approach to Contemporary Painting.”
by Valerie BrennanNovember 23, 2013
Beautiful/Decay
“Lynda Benglis And 6 Contemporary Artists Sculpt With Paint “
by Kristin BauerOctober 4 - November 10, 2012
New American Paintings Blog
“Alchemy of Paint: A Studio Visit with Margie Livingston and Isaac Quigley”
Egg tempera on panel with reclaimed fibers, thread, and polyester stuffing
17.75 x 12 x 1.75 inches
$2,500