Margaret Rodgers
Margaret Rodgers is an Oshawa artist, writer, and curator working in various media including painting drawing, and photo-based work with particular interest in solar printing. That said, painting remains the pivotal element in her process.
Solo shows include Closeups at RMG Oshawa, Solar Prints, CROSSWORDS, and MISSES, LASSES, & SHEILAS at the Women's Art Association of Canada, Solar Prints at Fort St. John North Peace Museum, B.C. Recent exhibition venues with the IRIS collective has included OISE, RMG Oshawa, Station Gallery Whitby, downtown Oshawa Space Invaders, and WhiteOut for Nuit Blanche. Her work has been included in No Man's Land (Erring on the Mount festival, Peterborough), Easy Come, Easy Go (AGP), and various WAAC art exhibitions. Internationally: Deviant Detours, Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Beijing World Art Museum, and the Lake Placid/Saranac Lake area, NY.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Current project is a series of larger-than-life jigsaw puzzle pieces, to be exhibited in "Are You Now or Have You Ever" at Kent Farndale Gallery in April 2025. They are acrylic on canvas.
Margaret Rodgers is an Oshawa artist, writer, and curator working in various media including painting drawing, and photo-based work with particular interest in solar printing. That said, painting remains the pivotal element in her process.
Solo shows include Closeups at RMG Oshawa, Solar Prints, CROSSWORDS, and MISSES, LASSES, & SHEILAS at the Women's Art Association of Canada, Solar Prints at Fort St. John North Peace Museum, B.C. Recent exhibition venues with the IRIS collective has included OISE, RMG Oshawa, Station Gallery Whitby, downtown Oshawa Space Invaders, and WhiteOut for Nuit Blanche. Her work has been included in No Man's Land (Erring on the Mount festival, Peterborough), Easy Come, Easy Go (AGP), and various WAAC art exhibitions. Internationally: Deviant Detours, Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Beijing World Art Museum, and the Lake Placid/Saranac Lake area, NY.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Current project is a series of larger-than-life jigsaw puzzle pieces, to be exhibited in "Are You Now or Have You Ever" at Kent Farndale Gallery in April 2025. They are acrylic on canvas.
$600.00
Acrylic paint, metal tape, photo transfer on canvas.
30x24"
From a series of artworks based upon the images and memories surrounding current and historical attempts to revive the once vital and hopefully renewable inner core. In all of the work I am interested in expressing the movement between concept and formal exploration, and the way in which they intertwine.
$600.00
Acrylic, photo transfer on canvas.
30x24"
Urban renewal in downtown Oshawa. Rodgers and Wallace would undertake an Oshawa street project in April of this year, in order to expose/articulate commercial change within civic landscape. Oshawa has been and remains an important industrial centre as well as a base for a suburban economy. This body of work is based on hopes for urban renewal in a beleaguered yet feisty city core. Wallace would paint what could be seen from inside a transparent box, until the artist herself had disappeared behind her painted images. Rodgers would produce a series of photograph/painting hybrids based on Oshawa’s downtown, working in the display window at Brush Strokes and interacting with passersby. In addition, a collaborative sound piece would be broadcast from the site.
Our hosts were Anna and Newell, proprietors of BrushStrokes.
$1,500.00
Acrylic, photo transfer on canvas.
36x24x1.25"
From series about renewal in downtown Oshawa. Rodgers and Wallace would undertake an Oshawa street project in April of this year, in order to expose/articulate commercial change within civic landscape. Oshawa has been and remains an important industrial centre as well as a base for a suburban economy. This body of work is based on hopes for urban renewal in a beleaguered yet feisty city core. Wallace would paint what could be seen from inside a transparent box, until the artist herself had disappeared behind her painted images. Rodgers would produce a series of photograph/painting hybrids based on Oshawa’s downtown, working in the display window at Brush Strokes and interacting with passersby. In addition, a collaborative sound piece would be broadcast from the site.
Our hosts were Anna and Newell, proprietors of BrushStrokes.
$1,500.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas with small transfer on left edge.
48x26x1.70"
From my series BIG GIRLS, featuring works on canvas depicting pre-teen girls and the related sociological issues. The exhibition was held at Oshawa's YWCA and was supported by the Ontario Arts Council.
$1,500.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
23x37x1.70"
From my series BIG GIRLS, featuring works on canvas depicting pre-teen girls and the related sociological issues. The exhibition was held at Oshawa's YWCA and was supported by the Ontario Arts Council.
$1,500.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
30x52"
From my series BIG GIRLS, featuring works on canvas depicting pre-teen girls and the related sociological issues. The exhibition was held at Oshawa's YWCA and was supported by the Ontario Arts Council.
$700.00
Acrylic, photo transfer, organdy, q-tips, styrofoam on stretched canvas.
22x28"
$700.00
Acrylic, graphite collage on rag paper.
22x30"
The Surface of Last Scattering is a term referring to the edge of the observable Universe.
$1,500.00
Acrylic and photo transfers on canvas.
36x26x1.25"
Lament for destruction of heritage home. How do we find redemption for such stupidity?
$700.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
24x26x0.50"
The image refers to a painting by Mary Hiester Reid, an early 20C flower painter featured in Molly Peacock's book "Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door."
$700.00
Plastic tags, found crochet, acrylic on rag paper.
22x30"
When I came across an embroidered work that says “BREAD” how could I not develop a collage on the subject. The colourful little plastic bread tags seemed to multiply in my bread drawer, and therefore the development of an artwork appeared to be inevitable.