Maggie Siner
| Maggie Siner | |
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 Maggie Siner in 2015 | |
| Born | Providence, Rhode Island |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | Boston University American University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painting |
| 🌐 Website | maggiesiner.com |
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Maggie Siner is a contemporary American painter and teacher. She is known for her paintings of interiors, figures, still-life and landscape.
Early life, education and travels[edit]
Siner was born Margaret Siner in Providence, Rhode Island.[citation needed] to a jewish family. Her grandparents emigrated to the USA in the early 1900 from Lemberg (Galicia, Austria), Grodno (Belarus), and Salant (Lithuania).[1] She completed her high school education in Maplewood, New Jersey while studying painting at The Art Students League of New York (1968–69).[citation needed] She attended Boston University (1969–1973, BFA, 1973) and The American University (1974–1976, MFA, 1976) majoring in painting.[citation needed] While on scholarship to Boston University's summer fine art program at the Tanglewood Institute, Lenox, MA (1971), Siner met Robert D’Arista who was a major influence on her work. She later studied with him at American University. In 1974 Siner attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture to study fresco painting.[2]
Siner lived in France from 1976 to 1980, settling in a 17th-century windmill near Fuveau, at the foot of Mont Sainte Victoire, the mountain made iconic by Cezanne’s paintings. In Aix-en-Provence she taught at the Institut des Universités Américaines and had her first solo show at the Galerie ‘Les Amis des Arts’. Her involvement in a women's self-help group led to auditing medical courses at the Faculté de Medicine in the University of Marseille. She continued medical studies after moving back to the US in 1981 and studied human anatomy at Georgetown University Medical School in 1986.[3] Over subsequent decades she returned to France for extended periods of time, for teaching and exhibitions.
Siner first went to China in 1991 and was invited to teach painting in the art department of Xiamen University in Xiamen, PRC in 1992 and again in 1999 and 2004.[4]
Siner first painted in Venice in 2008, and now lives there for most of the year.[5]
Painting[edit]
Siner was classically trained and works with traditional archival oil painting materials in a freshly contemporary handling. She is among those contemporary painters working exclusively from life, exploring beauty and meaning in the fleeting visual world. This, along with her fine craftsmanship and modestly sized work, makes her something of an anomaly in the current art dialogue.[6]
Her perceptual painting focuses on “how we actually see, how we respond to color and shape in a physical and emotional way, how our eyes move and travel, stop on an edge or leap to a point of contrast, how we react to verticals and horizontals how one color alters another color, how shapes create weight, movement and lead our eyes along a path.”[7]
Her subject matter follows many different threads, ranging from the intimate to the monumental to the whimsical and strange.[6] The landscape is crucial for its immediacy but she frequently paints figures, portraits, still life, and interiors with her recent works dedicated to laden tables and unmade beds, chosen precisely for their narrative ambiguities and the possibilities offered by the subtleties of white.[6]
She searches tirelessly – on the road or in the studio – for the subject, the light, or the position that delivers the right emotional experience, and then produces it with dazzling skill, through vigorous and brilliant brushwork, composition and architecture supported by strong solid drawing.[6]
Her mark-making owes much to her years spent in China, absorbing the language of Chinese ink painting, as well as the Abstract Expressionist influence of her mentor Robert D’Arista.[3]
Siner’s painting is "... a distillation born through the process of reduction. This unusual economy of technique is evident in her paintings."[8][9]
Sculpture[edit]
Trained in anatomy and figurative sculpture at Boston University Siner has continued working in clay throughout her career. While teaching in Lacoste, France, she began stone carving in the nearby limestone quarries and produced several life sized stone sculptures. Her sculpture has been exhibited in the USA, France and Italy.[10]
Teaching[edit]
Siner is a devoted and inspirational teacher who has influenced a generation of painters, and is noted for her energetic and structured teaching style. She has taught in art academies, universities and private art schools such as; the Institut d’Universités Américaines and the Lacoste School of the Arts in France, Xiamen University in China,[11][12] Savannah College of Art and Design,[13] American University, and the Washington Studio School in The United States.[14][15][16] Subjects include painting, drawing, sculpture, design, painting analysis, art history, landscape[17] and anatomy. Her innovative and challenging Anatomy Drawing class is legendary. She was Dean of Faculty at the Washington Studio School in 1996-1997. She is a frequent guest artist and public speaker appreciated for her revealing lectures on the internal workings of painting, among which is her original research on “Rembrandt and the Painter’s Secret Geometry”.
“As a teacher Siner impresses with her generosity, her determination to share the forceful approach she brings to her own work.”[18]
Medical illustration and facial reconstruction[edit]
During the 1980s Siner freelanced as a medical illustrator. Her knowledge of anatomy, as well as her artistic skill of portraiture and sculpture were put to practical use in 1988 when she created facial reconstructions for police in Leesburg, Virginia, leading to the identification of a murder victim.[8][19][20][21]
References[edit]
- ↑ JewishGen Family Tree
- ↑ "Skowhegan Alumni 1974". Skowheganart.org. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Still Life in Motion -". Nashvillehearts.com. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ Enlightenment of Teaching & Works by Maggie Siner, Beijing Fine Arts Journal, Sept. 1993
- ↑ "Painterly Visions: MAGGIE SINER". July 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Maggie Siner: The Non-conformity of True Art". Ytali.om. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ Sanford, Kelley (9 March 2016). "Ask the Expert…Maggie Siner". Intheheartstudio.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 Greg Huddleston, The Piedmont Virginian Magazine, Spring 2012, p. 53
- ↑ "Sphere of Influence : From police sketches to landscapes, a unique economy in technique leads to a bountiful range in both subject and style — influencing a generation of painters here and abroad" (PDF). Maggiesiner.com. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ↑ "GalleryFlux - Exhibit_Detail". Galleryflux.com. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ "Reminiscences of Xiamen: My Adopted Home". Oice.fjnu.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Maggie 2018 -Biography".
- ↑ "Community calendar". Savannahnow.com. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ "Events". Washingtonstudioschool.org. 19 August 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Suzanne". Washingtonstudioschool.org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Workshops & Marathons". Washingtonstudioschool.org. 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "PAINTING IN PROVENCE - WORKSHOP WITH MAGGIE SINER 2016". Pintinginprovence.com. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ John Rolfe Gardiner “Modern Master; Traditional Verities”
- ↑ “Murder She Sculpted”, Capital Edition, Channel 9, April 24, 1988 (half-hour TV program)
- ↑ “Sculptor Recreates Face for Deputies”, Washington Post, Feb. 6, 1988
- ↑ “Bones Become Man’s Likeness”, Washington Post, April 4, 1988
External links[edit]
- Maggie Siner on Calloway Art
- Maggie Siner on Peterson Contemporary Art
- Interview On Savvy Painter
- Still Life in Motion article
- Sloane Merrill Gallery
- Maggie Siner on Pryor Fine Art
- Maggie Siner on Leipers Creek Gallery
- Maggie Siner on Youtube
- Maggie Siner on Pinterest
- La peinture en Provence
- Maggie Siner on Artsy.Net
- Maggie Siner on Wall Street Journal International
- Maggie Siner and the Language of Paintings
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