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 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

Communities Series coming June 1, 2022

Hi Friends!

I’m glad to announce that I am finding time to get the full series of my pandemic works, Communities, here on my website! I will have the full series listed under the Art tab starting June 1, 2022. I’m currently working on re-structuring the site a bit to make it more user friendly. There will be ongoing changes of course but for now know that all the pieces will be listed here with works that are already SOLD listed as such. A few of the works from this series are in white gallery frames (from my winter exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center, Great Mysterious Heart) while the majority of the works are unframed.

More information to come when I make the release post in a couple of weeks!

Thanks for you continued support!

Megan

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)

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