Maggie Siner Pop-Up Show!

January 6th - 20th, 2024

Artist Talk and Reception: Saturday, January 13th, 2024, 3:00-6:00 pm

Artist Statement

I try to translate the eye's fleeting perception of the world around me into the permanence of paint. To paint is to reenact; to choreograph inside the confines of a rectangular frame, to select and simplify from the complexity of stimuli until the lived experience is recreated. Anything may be subject matter. It's all about the way color and shape, line and direction interact and create meaning. In the process, spaces between namable objects become more important than objects themselves. Nothing is invented, rather the goal is the truth of visual response. Painting taps the deepest and most considered resources of its maker, building a model of perception and a poetry of sight in a unique handwriting. With these thoughts I am poised between Cezanne's petit sensation and the immediate touch of brushwork, finding grandeur perhaps in a fold of cloth, or an epic tale in unrelated objects placed together, while propelling a viewers eye on the same intrepid journey as my own.

Biography

Maggie Siner is an American artist Born in Providence, Rhode Island. Siner began her studies at the Art Students League of New York, graduated from Boston University (BFA) and American University (MFA) where she studied with Robert D’Arista. Her paintings are shown in Paris, Venice, London, New York, Washington DC, and in hundreds of collections around the world. During her long artistic career she has lived for extended periods in France, China and Italy.

Siner is also a devoted teacher who has influenced a generation of painters. She has been on the faculty of l’Institute d’Universités Américaines and Lacoste School of Art in France, visiting professor at Xiamen University in China, artist-in-residence at Savannah College of Art and Design, Dean of Faculty at the Washington Studio School and teaches master classes in the USA and abroad. She is a frequent guest artist and public speaker. In 1976 Siner moved to France, exhibiting her work in Aix-en-Provence and Paris. She followed with medical studies at the Faculté de Médicine in Marseille, taught anatomy at Georgetown Medical School in Washington DC, and completed facial reconstructions for law enforcement in Virginia. Since 2008 she has been living part-time in Venice, enamored of that city’s ever-changing surfaces.