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 when she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color. Her focus switched from movement on the stage to movement on canvas and page. 

 

Dance, movement and music inform Garrett’s work. Her richly colored abstract paintings and works on paper capture the elusive quality of movement and rhythm. Her videos use dance to create moving collages which explore the same compositional elements as 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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