RRSRR2 coming to Method Gallery June & July 2023!

I am excited to announce the next iteration of my multi-component soft sculpture Red Ratchet Strap Remnant Relationship (RRSRR2) alongside my wall-sized work on paper Impermanent, will be installed at Method Gallery this summer!

Detail of RRSRR1 installed at KCLS, Kirkland Library, Kirkland, WA 2023. Photo by Mark Woods.

Join me for the opening at Method Gallery, Seattle, WA for the first Thursday art walk, June 1, 2023 from 6-8pm!

More soon!

Seeing Remnants in Life at The Kirkland Library

My large-scale installation, Seeing Remnants in Life, is up NOW through March 30, 2023 the Kirkland Library in partnership with The Kirkland Arts Center! In support of my art installation I am offering four different FREE public engagements over the duration of the show. Our first event is just around the corner:

Meet the Artist: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 6pm. I will be in conversation with Associate Curator and Gallery Program Manager of the Kirkland Art Center, Ellen McGivern about Seeing Remnants in Life. (Registration is requested, but not required.) Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.

Installation of Megan Prince’s Seeing Remnants in Life at The Kirkland Library, Kirkland, WA 2023.

Seeing Remnants in Life, consists of Impermanent (red Sharpie on photography seamless, 80x105 inches, 2022), and Red Ratchet Strap Remnant Relationship (RRSRR, reclaimed red ratchet straps, 92x339 inches, 2023) a reconfigurable multi-component fibers sculpture. Impermanent is the largest work in my 1,000 Paintings of Love series, each unique piece points to the individuality and importance of each of us in this life. RRSRR, from my Remnant Relationship series, uses remnant materials as a micro look at what we consider as cast-offs in society; a vehicle to think about what we consider unusable or garbage.

Additional Events for Seeing Remnants in Life:

Studio Visit: Sunday, February 19, 2023 from 2-4pm at the Kirkland Library.

Virtual Book Club: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from 6-7pm; join us on Instagram LIVE. We will be discussing Circe by Miller, Madeline Check my companion book list for an insight into what inspires me!

Friendship Bracelet Workshop: Sunday, March 19, 2023 from 1-3pm at the Kirkland Library (Registration is requested, but not required.)


This project is supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.

Reworked

Reworked: Lee Davignon and Megan Prince, January 12 - Feb 11 at The Vestibule
Reception Saturday, Jan 14 4-6 pm

Tying/Untying Performance Hours: weekly on Thursdays from 5-7pm and Saturdays from 2-4pm watch Timelapse footage from my performances here.

Press release for Reworked at The Vestibule.

Lee Davignon and Megan Prince rework textile and plastic into sculpture and installations. In her participatory, durational performance, Tying/Untying, Prince invites visitors to knot a mass of reused textile while she attempts to unknot it and remake it into a sculpture. The project echoes the frustration and reward of working with others.

Davignon, a weaver by training, unmakes material while keeping its history of use. They unwind marine rope, ball hair, break up plastic packaging, and then they reweave or resculpt it until it is almost unrecognizable. They model how art-making ought to be aware of its material history and material future.

Fiber Art Now Meet-Up Fri Jan 13 6-8 pm

Materials donated by Prarie Underground.

Jean Bodies & Friends at Mini Mart City Park summer 2022!

Announcing my upcoming exhibition at the recently opened and long awaited Mini Mart City Park this summer!

The exhibition will be open to the public Saturdays: July 30, Aug 6, and Aug 13.

With a closing reception on August 13 during Georgetown Art Attack.

Megan Prince, Jean Bodies installed at Alki Beach Park.

This July and August my Jean Bodies sculptures will be installed throughout Mini Mart City Park, in conjunction with selected wall works in the gallery space. With like-minded community and enviromental focus, I can’t think of a more perfect place for my Jean Bodies to be featured than MMCP!

Mini Mart City Park, 6525 Ellis Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98108

Mini Mart City Park is a community-focused project in the process of transforming a former gas station into a site-specific, pocket park and cultural center. There are over 700 derelict, gas stations in the Puget Sound region and over 200,000 nationwide. In 2005 it was our vision to identify and purchase one such property in King County and rehabilitate it, proving the potential of art to propel a project that simultaneously repairs damaged land while providing shared, multi-use cultural space.

MMCP is a project by the artist trio SuttonBeresCuller.

Don’t miss this opportunity to join the conversation; mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information as we get closer.

Megan Prince: Great Mysterious Heart

My exhibition, Great Mysterious Heart, featuring my Jean Bodies and Communities is open!

Great Mysterious Heart (installation picture), 2022

Great Mysterious Heart (installation picture), 2022

Megan Prince: Great Mysterious Heart, January 7 through February 12, 2022.

Artist Gallery Hours: From 12-2pm, Saturday, January 8 and Saturday, January 15. Stop by and say hi!

At the Kirkland Arts Center, Gallery hours are Wednesdays-Fridays 12pm to 6pm and Saturdays 12pm - 4pm

Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Friday, February 11, 2022 (tentative)

Collector's Pic - Untitled (yellow-green)

Oh how I adore working in large format!! It makes my heart sing. I still remember painting this piece in the basement corner of my friend’s rental house. I was looking for a studio space after undergrad and she offer a spot in their basement saying they only used their basement for laundry. It was a dream. She gave me a key to the house and let me come and go as I pleased for four years!!! What a gift she (and her roommates) gave to the young aspiring artist I was. In this corner I worked tirelessly anytime I could, slinking in and out the back door, trying not to be noticed or bother them. It was there that I developed a body of work that got me in to graduate school at CUNY Brooklyn College. This painting will always carry these memories for me. Memories of beginnings and working hard and generosity.

Untitled 1 (yellow-green), 60” x 72”, oil on canvas, 2005 (private collection)

Great Mysterious Heart opens in one month!

Friends,

I’m so excited about my upcoming solo exhibition, Great Mysterious Heart, at the Kirkland Arts Center!

This exhibition will feature a selection of both my Jean Bodies sculptures and Communities works on paper. Below is my artist statement for the show:

Great Mysterious Heart

Relationships compel interdisciplinary abstract artist Megan Prince to create; relationships between people, to belongings, and to the earth. We are all tied together by relationship. Her work points to the similarities we all share and the intrinsic desire we have of being together.

Prince’s floor sculptures, Jean Bodies, are constructed from donated worn jeans, cut up and hand knit together. Jeans are the vehicle used to look at similarities and differences in communities. The process of donation creates the relational element, inviting and empowering people to participate in the conversation to examine their relationships to their community and belongings, as well as consider the environmental impact.

With the works on paper, Communities, Prince explores aloneness, solidarity and togetherness. In Communities, the artist plots soft graphite stars on the mixed media works behind organic black forms in oil pastel, signifying our immediate people groups, and semi-circles of blue gouache, representing our earth. Each element points to levels of togetherness; we are not only in community with each other, but connected across our world and in the larger universe too.

Community #18, 20” x 26.5”, oil pastel, gouache and graphite on Rives cotton paper, 2021

You’ve Been on My Mind, 10x38x100, donated and reclaimed cut denim jeans, 2021

(This image is from a recent field trip I took my Jean Bodies sculptures on to Alki Beach Park in West Seattle.)

My show opens one month from today, January 7th, 2022 and will be open through February 12. As I mentioned before we won’t be able to announce the closing reception until closer to the date so keep your eyes peeled for that, plus I’ll be announcing artist gallery hours soon.

Gallery Hours are Thursday & Friday 12 pm – 6 pm, Saturday 12 pm – 4 pm

Kirkland Arts Center is located at 620 Market St., Kirkland, WA 98033.

Great Mysterious Heart

I am excited to share the dates for my upcoming solo exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center this January 2022:

The exhibition dates are January 7 through February 12, 2022.

THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS (exhibition view from Interdependence at KAC), 2020, donated and reclaimed cut denim jeans, 8x156x60

I look forward to seeing you there! - Megan

Writings on the Wall inspires choreographer Arron Masters

Check out how Arron Masters of Master Musings interprets my site-specific installation Writings on the Wall. Her review of my installation spurred a collaboration to create Writings Converged. Check out the resulting video below!

Dancing by Ellie Harrison, visual art by Megan Prince, digital compositing by Tom Eaton, videography by Ryan Simms at Radio Tag, choreography by Arron Masters.