Artist Statement
I make abstract acrylic paintings on canvas, collages and mixed-media pieces, which, through a rigorous process of working and reworking composition and art elements, arrive at a harmonious expression of the essential nature of the subject. Life experience may be similarly layered.
My work is inspired by my experience of places, distant, close to home, and from my imagination. Using non-representational imagery, the work describes the ‘spirit’ of place. I work thematically as each experience may suggest many possible visual outcomes. Subject matter may serve as metaphor for intangible ideas. The work addresses the fragility of existence and of memory.
Biographical Narrative
Marge Moody is a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she taught for 30 years. She describes her work broadly as being environment based, which emanates from her experience of her home in South Carolina, through traveling, and from her imagination.
She has exhibited her work in Great Britain, Washington, DC, New York, Chicago and various galleries in North and South Carolina. Some of her recent achievements include being accepted to the American Academy in Rome as a ‘Visiting Artist’ (March/April 2020) and to the National Association of Women Artists in New York City , where she is having a solo show of new work in June 2020: in 2015 she was awarded a one-person show (‘SM15’) at FRONT Art Space, Tribeca, New York, NY where she displayed 16 small works. She was invited to participate in the 15th Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea, London, England, in February 2016. In 2013 she had one-person exhibitions of her work in Chicago, Illinois, and in Great Britain, two of 6 shows she had in 2013 as part of her ‘Made In America: 1983 – 2013’ exhibitions. Her work was selected for the large exhibition, ‘Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’ at the SC State Museum, Columbia, SC. in 2012.
Marge’s work is part of many private and corporate collections in Great Britain and the US, including the South Carolina State Art Collection, the MUSC Contemporary Carolina Collection, Williams and Fudge and the Winthrop University Collection. She completed a residency at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in 2006 and at OBRAS – Portugal in 2015. She is married to Phil Moody, photographer, and has two grown sons.
I make abstract acrylic paintings on canvas, collages and mixed-media pieces, which, through a rigorous process of working and reworking composition and art elements, arrive at a harmonious expression of the essential nature of the subject. Life experience may be similarly layered.
My work is inspired by my experience of places, distant, close to home, and from my imagination. Using non-representational imagery, the work describes the ‘spirit’ of place. I work thematically as each experience may suggest many possible visual outcomes. Subject matter may serve as metaphor for intangible ideas. The work addresses the fragility of existence and of memory.
Biographical Narrative
Marge Moody is a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she taught for 30 years. She describes her work broadly as being environment based, which emanates from her experience of her home in South Carolina, through traveling, and from her imagination.
She has exhibited her work in Great Britain, Washington, DC, New York, Chicago and various galleries in North and South Carolina. Some of her recent achievements include being accepted to the American Academy in Rome as a ‘Visiting Artist’ (March/April 2020) and to the National Association of Women Artists in New York City , where she is having a solo show of new work in June 2020: in 2015 she was awarded a one-person show (‘SM15’) at FRONT Art Space, Tribeca, New York, NY where she displayed 16 small works. She was invited to participate in the 15th Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea, London, England, in February 2016. In 2013 she had one-person exhibitions of her work in Chicago, Illinois, and in Great Britain, two of 6 shows she had in 2013 as part of her ‘Made In America: 1983 – 2013’ exhibitions. Her work was selected for the large exhibition, ‘Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’ at the SC State Museum, Columbia, SC. in 2012.
Marge’s work is part of many private and corporate collections in Great Britain and the US, including the South Carolina State Art Collection, the MUSC Contemporary Carolina Collection, Williams and Fudge and the Winthrop University Collection. She completed a residency at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in 2006 and at OBRAS – Portugal in 2015. She is married to Phil Moody, photographer, and has two grown sons.