Margaret Garrett is an interdisciplinary American artist. Her artistic practice includes painting, collage, printmaking, and video art. She grew up in Pennsylvania where she trained to be a dancer and joined the Pennsylvania Ballet at the age of 16. She went on to dance with the Cleveland Ballet as a soloist. In her early twenties, she transitioned from the dance world to the art world when she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color.

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Dance and music continue to inform Garrett’s work. Her richly colored abstract paintings and works on paper capture the elusive qualities of movement and rhythm. In 2017, Garrett returned to dancing as a way to inspire new works: She began filming herself dancing and using video clips as material to create moving video collages. These videos have become a major part of her practice and explore many of the same compositional elements as in her paintings- linear movement, shape, and the unfolding of contrapuntal patterns.
 

Margaret Garrett's work is held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. Museum collections include Blanton Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Collection, The Leiber Collection, and Guild Hall Museum. She has exhibited in New York City at Planthouse, Danese/Corey, the FLAG Art Foundation, and Birnam Wood Gallery. She has been awarded residencies at the Church in Sag Harbor, NY and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Garrett has collaborated on print projects with Flatbed Press, Van Deb Editions, and RussellJanis Studio. Recent achievements in large-scale public work include a 40-foot glass mural commissioned by NYU Langone Art Program and fabricated in collaboration with Peters Studio in Germany. 

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