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Maggie recently returned from eight weeks of US residencies, where she continued her project, Driftpoints, with experimental printmaking. She will further this work at Bucknell University this Fall as the Ekard Artist in Residence in the printmaking shop, with a solo exhibition there in November. At the studio visit, Maggie will show the work made at the residencies and hopes to discuss these and her ongoing projects.

Maggie, a multi-media artist based in Paris, moved from New York to Milan in 1994 to pursue her art while raising three children. In Milano, her studio was the heart of their apartment, where for eighteen years she created feminist photo-based works that integrated her roles as mother and artist. These works explored the materiality of family snapshots and the spaces that emerge when photos become sculpture, installation, video, and performance.

A 2013-14 mid-career retrospective—a Spanish/Russian cultural collaboration in two museums—sparked a personal sea change, furthering her move to Paris and residencies studying traditional crafts with masters in India, Malaysia, South Africa, and Paris; collaborations with fashion and design brands; and explorations of cultural techniques, non-dualistic philosophies, and emergent biological phenomena.

Experimental exhibitions using materials like black photos, raw clay, leather, crude oil, and a chance encounter with a vintage needlepoint (and subsequently many needlepoints) led to her 2022-23 solo show, Meshes, at Galeria F2 in Madrid, showcasing the profound evolution in her work. The above images are of this exhibition.