Margaret Evangeline (born 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a post-minimalist painter, video, performance, and installation artist, noted for paintings riddled with bullet holes."Extreme Precision: A Conversation with Margaret Evangeline", D. Dominick Lombardi, Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2010
Life Evangeline was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and lived in New Orleans before moving to New York City in 1992. Evangeline received her M.F.A. and B.A. from the University of New Orleans. She has had more than forty solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Evangeline received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the ART/OMI Foundation Artist in Residence.
Works Evangeline’s diverse practice includes large-scale site-specific installations using mirror-like surfaces. In these installations, viewers can find their reflections moving through bullet-marked environments of woods or water,BBC News with outcomes sometimes documented in Evangeline’s videos. The installations became linked with environmental art,Malcolm Jones, "Toward a New New Orleans," Newsweek, April 26, 2008 as the bullet-riddled mirror polished stainless steel panels she is known for, began as a performance in either the woods, the New Mexico landscape, or the sky, which are mirrored in the context of the artwork. In New Orleans, she filled a cottage with fertile dirt from the Mississippi River, which sprouted new growth from seeds she planted.Linda Yablonsky, The New York Times, T Magazine, "Cottage Industry" September 26, 2008
As a process artist,Absolute Arts her work began to evolve to include autobiographical elements,Koan Jeff Baysa, "Ricochets and Tangled Trajectories," Art Slant, December 2009 which distinguishes her work from other process art. Her career-spanning monograph was published by ChartaCharta Art Books in 2011. Including an essay by Edward Lucie-Smith and an interview by Dominique Nahas. It was reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail article 'Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass'Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass
Sabachthani,Sabachtani on Amazon a book of photographs, essays and poetry centered around a project Evangeline carried out in collaboration with her son's military unit in Iraq, was also published by Charta in November 2012.
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External links
Margaret Evangeline artist gallery at stuxgallery.com