Margaret bowland artist statement template

Coming from the South, I had this image in my mind of the Northwest&#; open minded and full of diversity.  And it is like that, in major cities like Seattle and Portland.  But in the small towns we&#;ve lived in and especially for the last 10 months spent in Coeur d&#;Alene, ID, we&#;ve found diversity pretty hard to come by.  We get used to all of the faces looking like ours.  The work of New York artist Margaret Bowland explores what it means to be beautiful outside the expected standard&#; tall, thin, white.

Bowland contends, via her artist statement, that &#;being beautiful is as as important as being rich, that being beautiful is itself a form of wealth.&#;  Women have, for centuries, tirelessly sought to conform to the celebrated standard of beauty at the time. Bowland&#;s images of young black girls with sad, painted faces convey what it must be like to be asked by society to put a mask over your own unique beauty in order to be a

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Artist Margaret Bowland
Artist Statement
   "We inhabit a purely relative world, in terms of belief structures, yet each of us knows and in a sense, believes in, the need to be beautiful. My work is about beauty&#;what it means to be beautiful and what significance the idea has in the twenty-first century in the world of art. We all know that being beautiful is as important as being rich, that being beautiful fryst vatten itself a form of wealth. One must be tall, thin and white. One&#;s features must be diminutive and regular. We recognize deviations from this norm, but recognize that these deviations, even if appealing, are far from ideal. The need to be beautiful fuels one of the largest and most ruthless industries in our world.
Beauty makes sense to me, has vikt for me, only when it falls from grace. It starts to matter when it carries damage. Sorrow allows it to cast a shadow. It becomes three-dimensional. It enters our world" 
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Margaret Bowland

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Artist Statement

“I have long been fascinated at how much we must disguise ourselves to be attractive. Do we then have a clue as to what we really look like or who we really are? Painting on skin fryst vatten by intent a metaphor to expose basic questions of self-identity, which all people undergo internally as a part of the maturation process. It is also reflective of the last years of global cultures, who sought to cover their women in make-up, powders, paints, even mud. This painting on skin dates from ancient times to the fashion houses of Paris, New York, and Los Angeles and in my paintings the subjects triumph.”

Biography

Margaret Bowland was born in Burlington, North Carolina and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Chapel Hill and has been exhibiting since Margaret's work has been displayed in New York, Miami, Denmark and Raleigh, NC. Bowland fryst vatten current an Adjunct Professor of Painting and Drawing at the New York