Margaret Vega
Bio
Professor Margaret Vega teaches painting and drawing at Kendall College of Art and Design, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has also taught at Academic di Belle Arti in Perugia and Grand Valley State University. Her work is in private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.
Margaret served as principle interior architect and furniture designer for three Caffé Leonardo locations and Suite 303 of the Waters Building. Her exhibitions have been shown in Art News and Art in America. She is listed in the Art Index of American Painters.
| Angelus Novus International Exhibition, Perugia, Italy | |
| Bridging Continents: 14 American Artists in Germany, exhibits in: Munich, Frankfurter, Stuttgart, and Cologne | |
| Voices of the Children: one woman exhibition, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art | |
| Landscape, Volid Gallery, Chicago |
| Lydon Gallery, Chicago | |
| Alien Gallery, San Francisco | |
| LaFontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids |
| Michigan Council for the Arts Grant | |
| YWCA Tribute Award for outstanding contribution in visual arts | |
| Legacy 2003: Woman's History Month Award |
Artist’s Statement (excerpt)
“The conception for art takes place in dialectic order as there is not true flight out of our own time. I recognize that no form I see, no dream or fantasy that I envision is beyond the dialogue for all human beings.
“In my work, the landscape, often juxtaposed with the figure, documents time and place. I am fascinated with' man's need to re-organize a nature which has its own order. I am drawn to the agricultural divisions of the land and the color of light in the Umbrian regions of Italy where time is marked with stone walls and family vineyards. My work often contains surface writing and scratches, a reminder of our need to be remembered and to leave behind a sign of our evanescent state of existence.
“My creative unconscious is entered through fragments of conscious awareness and observation, making these images an effort to intertwine human experiences by reaffirming subtle conceptions of reality and rearranging the questions.”
“Renaissance Landscape”
14.5" x 10.5" oil on paper
