Margaret Cogswell
Unsettling into Dusk - 2022
watercolor and color pencil on paper
7” x 30”
UNSETTLING INTO DUSK is from a series of drawings/paintings titled TRANSCENDING LOSS, created in January and February 2022. Painted not long after my father’s death, during the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and amidst increasingly dire global climate reports, these works seek to grapple with grief and overwhelming loss. Listening to Berlioz’s Requiem Mass while painting inspired me to harness that grief and use it to create a body of work exploring defiant landscapes.
This work is included in an exhibition titled:
May 7 - June 4, 2022
exhibition
Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats
curated by Sue Spaid for ecoartspace
Willliamsburg Art and Historical Center
Summer 2022
Residency
Montella Foundation Residency
Montello Foundation is a foundation dedicated to support artists who foster
our understanding of nature, its fragility and our need to protect it.
I am pleased to have been invited by the Montello Foundation to participate in the Montello artist residency program this summer in the deserts of Nevada.
Fleeting – 2022 (detail)
Watercolor and color pencil on paper
Winter 2022
Publication
Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community
University of Minnesota 2oth Edition of Open Rivers features River Fugues.
February 23, 2022
Lecture
A Sense of Place / Reflections on Place, Landscape and Memory
A presentation by Margaret Cogswell for the Provost Colloquium Series at East Stroudsburg University in PA
May 27, 2021
Lecture
The Magical History of Moving Water in NYC
Presented by New York City Department of Records and Information Services
2021
Lecture
River Fugues, Zoom lecture for the Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee's PhD Seminar Series, University of Dundee, Scotland.
2021
Lecture
Artist Lectures and critiques as Artist-in-Residence with Madelon Powers Gallery
East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA.
Night Views from a Puddle (2020 watercolor, colored pencil on paper)
June 2021
CD Collaboration
Night Views from a Puddle Drawing selected for CD cover design SKETCHES, an album of jazz piano
Sketches, released in June 2021, is Junichiro Mataga’s first album.
Learn about Junichiro Mataga: j-mataga.com
For other inquiries regarding this CD or Margaret Cogswell’s drawings, please go to CONTACT on this website.
Dec 2019 & Jan. 2020
Residency
mh Projects- Residency and Exhibition of Work
I participated in mh Projects, a residency program on New York City’s Lower East Side, which aims to support artists and curators developing new projects. The exhibition featured Views from a Puddle, an installation combining video and drawings along with text from a poem by artist/poet, JoAnne McFarland, selected in response to my videos. The videos were shot while participating as the Lucile Walton Fellow, Artist-in-Residence at Mountain Lake Biological Station Art lab in Virginia during the summer of 2019.
During the residency I developed a new suite of drawings Nights Views from a Puddle. See drawings section.
2019
Lecture
Moving the Water(S): River Fugues & Poems
Lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition at Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of PA, East Stroudsburg, PA
2019
Lecture
River Fugues for The Lucile Walton Fellow Lecture
The University of Virginia ArtLab Residency Program at Mountain Lake Biological Station, Giles County, VA
July 14-27, 2019
Residency
2019 ArtLab Residency Program at Mountain Lake Biological Station
Sponsored by the University of Virginia, I have been invited to participate in the 2019 ArtLab Residency Program at Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles County, Virginia as The Lucile Walton Fellow. As the Walton Fellow I will be giving a lecture on July 16th at Mountain Lake.
ArtLab at Mountain Lake Biological Station is a 2-week summer residency that gives artists the opportunity to work at the University of Virginia’s biological field station and share research or collaborate with scientists Set on a beautiful mountaintop in southwestern Virginia, Mountain Lake offers miles of trails, wildlife, and access to diverse biological collections (the herbarium, preserved mammals, birds, insects and reptiles).
The opportunity to participate in this residency is of particular significance to me because, since 2006, I have been researching and developing a River Fugues project on the New River which flows through Giles County.
December 2018
BOOK PUBLICATION
MARGARET COGSWELL: RIVER FUGUES
In 2017-18, a generous grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation supported several projects, including the publication of RIVER FUGUES, a book on the last 17 years of River Fugues projects exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. This book includes essays by Lilly Wei, Eleanor Heartney, John Massier, Tom Sleigh, Harvey Hixs and Wang Nanming, as well as video stills, drawings, and documentation of the mixed-media installations.