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Artist Talk & Reception: Margaret Curtis
February 6, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Please join us for an artist’s talk and gallery reception with Margaret Curtis, the 2025 Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist.
Artist Talk: Margaret Curtis
5-6 p.m.
Jerri Jones Lecture Hall, Room 211, Phillips Hall
Opening Reception
6-7 p.m.
Alexandre Hogue Gallery
Phillips Hall
Light hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Margaret Curtis is a feminist artist whose exuberantly painted, multi-layered narrative paintings address power dynamics on both the individual and societal level. Her paintings respond to climate change and ecosystem loss, using saturated color and compressed space to highlight the fictional realm in which her narratives unfold—a stage-set terrain of false fronts and facades, awash in anxiety.
The Alexander Hogue Gallery is open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays. The exhibition will be on view through March 6, 2025, and is free and open to the public.
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Margaret Curtis is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and recent finalist for the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Curtis graduated Magna cum Laude from Duke University, received her BFA from The Atlanta College of Art, and attended the Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art. Her work first gained recognition in Marcia Tucker’s groundbreaking Bad Girls exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, in 1994. Since then, Curtis has shown at P.P.O.W., The Brooklyn Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Wexner Center, and The Mint Museum, among others. Recent solo exhibits include: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah (2024), Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC (2023, 2020), and The Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC (2022).
Reviews and features of Curtis’ work have appeared in Art Forum, The New York Times, Harper’s, Oxford American, Art in America, Art News, Modern Painters, Interview, New Art Examiner, and other national publications. Her work is in permanent collections throughout the United States. Curtis splits her time between North Carolina and New Mexico, and is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.
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Image: Margaret Curtis, Portrait of My Anxiety, 2021. Oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches.