A (Quick) Afternoon with Maggie Groat
This year, Gallery 44’s annual fundraiser, Salon 44, features an open edition of a work by Maggie Groat—a great opportunity to live with a work of art that otherwise might be out of your budget. Groat’s work plays with foraged objects, symmetries, and a consistent aesthetic—regimented shapes, saturated colours on backdrops of monotone shadows, and considered, sleek, collages. The interdisciplinary quality of Groat’s practice articulates the way we move through spaces, the changing earth, the universe.
About the Salon 44 Open Edition:
rise > ease > deeply is part of an ongoing study into imperfect symmetries, patterning, and the possible utilities of images. Composed with found and modified photographs taken from the margins of 20th century printed matter, and through the process of decontextualizing, fragmenting, and halving, a proposal, a map, a power-filled composition emerges. This work carries the energies and associations of the fragmented, but transforms through its orbital relations and compilation into a collection that resists categorization.
In the spirit of being succinct, Maggie and I conducted the following interview in a rapid-fire format:
If you had to choose one artistic medium to work in, what would it be?
Textiles
What can you look at every day and never tire of?
The Matisse inspired needlepoint composition stitched by my great-grandmother in the 1960's. I grew up seeing it hanging in her house and now it hangs in my bedroom.
What are you streaming right now?
Los Espookys
If you could return to any age in your life, how old would you be?
24
Star sign?
Sagittarius
What's on your bedside table right now?
A teardrop salt lamp, a small pink ceramic dish made by Jimmy Limit, Elva Wilk's Oval, Derek Jarman's Modern Nature, and Enrique Salmón's Iwígara: The Kinship of Plants and People.
NEWS:
I’m delighted to share that Canadian Art Forecast has teamed up with ART+PUBLIC UnLtd to start a video project that will be hosted on Instagram’s IGTV platform.
We’re excited to bring original video content to both of our Instagram channels, and feature a behind the scenes look into artist studios and collector’s homes.
This is part of our continued efforts to highlight the importance of supporting artists and the work they do: revealing the process and labour that goes into making art and the personal significance of collections and the connections made by collectors and the work they enjoy in their home.
If this piques your interest, please be sure to follow both of our accounts so you don’t miss major announcements and video drops! Follow @artpluspublicplus & @cdnartforecast
