Tryon-based artist Margaret Curtis brings layered, large-scale work to a national stage this spring
Tryon-based painter Margaret Curtis is entering a dynamic spring season, with new work on view in New York, Brooklyn, and the Southeast. Known for her exuberant, multi-layered paintings, Curtis explores power, identity, and the cultural symbols that shape both. As she describes it, her work “addresses power dynamics on both the individual and societal level,” weaving together narrative, history, and a distinctly contemporary visual language. Her upcoming solo exhibition at Post Times in New York City (running through May 17) marks her first solo presentation there in more than two decades. The show features monumental oil paintings alongside works on paper from her “burning bridges” series, where familiar American imagery — cowboy hats, sheriff stars, oil infrastructure — appears fragmented, scaffolded, and in flux. The result is both playful and pointed, inviting viewers to reconsider the stability of the myths these symbols represent. This spring also brings new lithographs, created in collaboration with Tamarind master printer Perry Obee, to the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair (April 9-12). Later in the season, Curtis’s work will appear in The Forest was Rebuilt with Scrap and Ply (April 17-June 27), a group exhibition at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama, that examines artists’ responses to climate change.
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