Margaret Lanzetta
Margaret Lanzetta
 

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Biography

Margaret Lanzetta has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, in the Queens Museum Biennial, Kenise Barnes Fine Art; Jason Andrew, Norte Mar venues; Elizabeth Heskin Gallery, all in New York. International exhibitions include the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; the National Museum, Bangkok, Thailand (pop-up, solo); 2nd Bloom, Singapore; Famous Ornament, Tokyo; Reign Marks, Rabat, Morocco; and the Stockholm Independent Art Fair. Honors include three Fulbright Fellowships, including a Global Award to India/Singapore/Thailand, 2016-19, and India/Syria, 2007-8; the MacDowell Colony, (3 residencies); the Ucross Foundation; the British Academy in Rome; Greenwich House Pottery; Dieu Donné Papermill. Lanzetta’s work has been commissioned by Arts for Transit, New York subway.  Her works are held in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Yale University Museum; and the Harvard Museums. Press about her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail,  ArtCritical.com, Two Coats of Paint, and several online and print venues. 

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Artist Statement

My work investigates cross currents of world decorative traditions in relation to contemporary cultural, political, and environmental narratives. I combine globally-sourced, patterned textiles with painting and silkscreening to create tactile works that meld geopolitics with centuries-old motifs.

Mimicking the accumulative process of weaving, I repeatedly silkscreen stripes, florals and zigzags on surfaces of collaged textiles. The resulting work also references modern painting traditions such as the grid, and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Approximating a cultural dialogue, the works offer a sense of hope in an otherwise globalized cacophony of cultures and religions.

My influences derive from years of living and working as an artist in India, Japan, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. Buddhist iconography and meditation practices, Islamic trance-like geometry, and notions of hybridity and migration embedded in textiles inform my work. I thrive on making art in places of great beauty and spiritual inspiration.

ceramic crown in front of artwork

Exhibition at Clemente Center, New York. on wall: Future Ready, acrylic, rayon, sari fabric and Monkey Applause, acrylic,rayon, cotton bedsheet, sari fabric. On pedestal, ceramic crown: Joffrey, porcelain and black mason stain.

 
 
 
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Collections

Selected Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York

British Museum, London

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The New York Public Library Print Collection

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Northern Illinois University Museum, Dekalb

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa

The Hallmark Fine Art Collection, Kansas City

Amerada Hess Corporation, New York

New York University Medical Centers

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

Selected Private Collections

Kenise Barnes, New York

Susan Drew, Los Angeles

Bill and Jodi Gorin, New York

Dawn and Chuck Hendricks, New York

Barbara Kelly, Canada

Barbara and Roger Kohin, Worcester

Patti Kraft, Boston

Werner Kramarsky, New York

Leslie and Michael Meyers, New York

Jean-Yves Noblet, New York

Natasha and Ross Taylor, Australia

Dan Cullen and Mary Chris Welch, New York

Niall Worn, Germany

Elisabeth Pisternak, Rabat, Morocco

Nawal Slaoui, Casablanca, Morocco

 
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Rain from Another Place

 
 
 
 
 

Rain From Another Place: A four-minute video about Margaret Lanzetta’s work

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