Margaret Garrett

Garrett took this approach to dance-informed visual work one step further in the project The19, which includes a video, two groups of collages, and a suite of seven woodblock and chine collé prints. For these works, Garrett was inspired by the Martha Graham Dance Company’s "The 19 Poses," created in honor of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

In 2017, Garrett returned to dancing as a way to inspire new works: She began filming herself dancing and using the video clips to create moving collages. This approach has informed much of her recent work and earned her a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Many of these influences are evident in Garrett’s series Tuning Fields, a collection of textural paintings that the artist began in 2008 and which includes over 300 individual works. In 2014, selections from Tuning Fields were exhibited at a solo show at the Birnam Wood Galleries in New York City. "When I started the series, I was thinking of fields of vibration and how they interact and create harmony with one another," Garrett said after the show. "And I liked the musical idea behind 'tuning' because they are sort of physical fields of movement and vibration."

Margaret Garrett (born 1965), is an American artist and dancer. Her artistic practice includes painting, printmaking, collage, and video work. She lives and maintains a studio in Shelter Island, New York with her husband, the composer and pianist Bruce Wolosoff. She has two daughters, the singer-songwriter Juliet Garrett and the sculptor and mixed media artist Katya Wolosoff.