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.
$800.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
36x26x0.50"
For a Nuit Blanche exhibition where the theme whiteout was explored. Here the painting obliterates a previous artwork that peeps through.
$600.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
32x24"
From a series depicting images around Lake Placid and Saranac Lake NY.
$1,500.00
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
52x20x1.70"
From a series based on and exhibited in Lake Placid and Saranac Lake, later included in an IRIS Collective exhibition titled FLUID.