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.

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.

Communities showing at Molly's Bottle Shop

Friends, my Communities will be available to visit hyper-locally in my community (!) at Molly’s Bottle Shop in West Seattle for the month of October. Come say hi during the West Seattle Art Walk on Thursday, October 13 from 5-late!

Polaris and Cassiopeia with Satellite, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives BFK paper, 44.5 x 63.25 in. (maple frame)

Now is the time.


Togetherness.


Love. 


Community. 


Solidarity.


Courage. 


Hope.



Ignore the lies and find the hope.

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.

During the early works in this series the artist intuitively placed the stars but as this series developed Prince was compelled to use real stars. For the later works Prince used a star app on her smart phone to take pictures of the current constellations overhead, which she then hand-plotted on to the paper, documenting the current time.

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. Prince’s work points to the similarities we all share and the intrinsic desire we have of being together.

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. This is the real message of love." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Megan Prince: Communities

Molly’s Bottle Shop - West Seattle

3278c California Ave SW
Seattle, WA, 98116

Communities on my website!

Hi Friends! The full series of my pandemic works, Communities, are here!

Now is the time.
Togetherness.
Love.
Community.
Solidarity.
Courage.
Hope.

Ignore the lies and find the hope.

Alderamin, Cepheus, and Nodus Secundus, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives paper, 20 x 26.5 inches (unframed)

Megan Prince: Communities 2020 - 2021

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.

Listed under the “Art” tab starting today June 1, 2022; all 19 of the mixed media works on paper are listed here with the works that are already SOLD listed as NA. A few of the works from this series are framed (from my winter exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center, Great Mysterious Heart), while the majority of the works are unframed. Please reach out to me with any inquires about adding one of my Communities to your own collection!

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Megan

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. This is the real message of love." - Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

Thank you for your support and love this past week!

What a week that was! My week long 15% off virtual art sale is over.

I raised more than $700.00 for Choose 180 and made the donation yesterday. Thank you for choosing to invest in change! As a result of your generosity young people throughout our community will have the chance to make their 180. Thank you all for helping me put our money where it matters most, in the hands of important ground-breaking organizations like Choose 180. Especially when they are lead by our black and brown family. They know best where the money can be used and how to get there.

Love Painting No. 46, gouache and ink on cotton paper, 6x8 inches, $100.

We all have a place and role to play in life. Each person is different. Each of us matters. Each of us is needed. My Love Paintings point to how each and every one of us needs and deserves love in our daily life, and we are needed by others. You are not alone. You are seen and loved just as you are.

Thank you for all of your emotional, physical, and financial support of my art practice! Lots of people will have new beautiful art in their homes soon to add beauty and so much more to their daily lives.

All the hopes and dreams,

Megan

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

Juror George Rodriguez presents my Jean Bodies sculpture.

Juror George Rodriguez took an extra moment to highlight my Jean Bodies sculpture, These Are My People, These Are My Friends. Thanks George!