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MARGARET VEGA: FURNITURE, FIGURES AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS — August 3 - September 30, 2009
Professor Margaret Vega teaches painting and drawing at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has also taught at
Academia di Belle Arti in Perugia and Grand Valley State University. For many years Margaret concentrated exclusively on the figure in her work, but a trip to Spain in
the late 80's inspired a landscape component which has stayed a consistent part of her compositions. Past major exhibitions include: 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; and group shows at Lydon Gallery, Chicago; Allen Gallery, San Francisco; and
LaFontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids. Her work is in private and corporate collections in the US, Canada, Mexico and Europe.
Her awards include: Michigan Council for the Art Grant; Y.W.C.A Triburte Award for outstanding contribution in visual arts; and Legacy 2003: Woman's Histroy Month Award. Her
exhibitions have been shown in the national publications: Art News and Art in America. She is listed in the Art Index of American Painters.
Excerpts from Artist Statement:
"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 humand 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."
Margaret Vega: Furniture, Figures and Other Observations
Opening Reception, August 13, 2009: Great art, food and beverage.
Artist Margaret Vega
Exhibit opening and artist's reception, August 13, 2009.
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell and wife Susan.
Exhibit opening and artist's reception, August 13, 2009.
Vega Coffe Table
Baltic Birch and glass, $1,800.00
Beyond the Landscape with Figures (large painting), Oil on linen, 48 x 72" - $9,200.00
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Vega Side Table
Baltic Birch, $1,500.00
Lake Trasemeno (painting in background), Oil on linen with wax, 36 x 46" - $7,800.00
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Artist Margaret Vega
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Landscape with Architectural Elements
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24"
$2,100.00
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Boy with Gold Mask
Oil on paper with gold and oil pastel, framed
$1,200.00
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Boy with Pear
Oil on paper with oil pastel, framed
$1,200.00
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Beyond the Landscape
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24"
$2,100.00
Renaissance Landscape
Oil on paper - framed, image size 14.5 x 10.5" (paper size 22 x 30")
$1,950.00
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Angel di Capri
Oil on canvas with gold, 28 x 38"
$6,800.00
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Angel of Recoleta
Oil on canvas with gold, 28 x 38"
$6,800.00
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Cleopatra's Cabinet
Baltic Birch, sandblasted glass and acrylic
$9,500.00
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Cleopatra's Cabinet
Side View
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