Artist Statement
Interests in structures, systems, methods of making, process and chance have guided my work over the years. I’m interested in the physicality of line and what is revealed through its materiality and the process of how it is made: the varying speed, trace, implied movement, recorded direction, lightness, softness, grittiness, texture, feel and color. The drawings and weavings explore the intersections of orthogonal constructed lines and grids juxtaposed with more natural variations of hand drawn actions. I create works that explore dissonance, harmony, stability, vulnerability, and ephemeral states. I examine notions of trace marks, linear disruptions, and impermanence. Meaning is communicated by the haptic realm of the materials. The work is a form of meditative refuge and discovery.
Margie Neuhaus
Margie Neuhaus has had solo exhibitions at Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space, Bronx, NY; Garage Art Center, Queens, NY; and at Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; P.S.122 Gallery, NY, NY; A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN; Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY; Convergence XI, Providence, RI; and Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, and Ducts.org. Neuhaus has received residency fellowships from MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Sculpture Space. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and earned an M.F.A from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She taught at The College of New Rochelle for 21 years, where she was tenured in 2002 and received the rank of Professor in 2012, until it closed in 2019. She was a Session Leader in the Critical Feedback Program at Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. She currently serves as adjunct faculty at New Jersey City University, LaGuardia Community College, and has taught at Parsons School of Design. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
MARGIE NEUHAUS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 • Lineaments, The Garage Art Center, Bayside, NY
2007 • Synthesis, Sunroom Project Space, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2007 • Sensory Jetty, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 • SALON ZÜRCHER: 11 Women of Spirit Part 8, Zürcher Gallery, NYC (Upcoming in September)
2022 • Kentler Benefit, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2019 • Textile Art Center 10 Year Reunion Exhibition Web Gallery
2019 • Trestle Annual Benefit, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 • Call & Response, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2017 • Color Sculpture, NYSS Projects @DUMBO Gallery, New York Studio School, Brooklyn, NY
2011 • In Layers: Tomas Bevan, Soo Im Lee, Margie Neuhaus, Yes! Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 • Flowers, Follies and Other Rites of Spring, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY curator Kenise Barnes, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2011 • Margie Neuhaus and Patrick O’Hare, The Forge Studio and Gallery, Milford, PA
2011 • SAS and GS Art Faculty Exhibition, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
2010 • Margie Neuhaus and Patrick O’Hare, Gg Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 • Weather Channel, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, curator Karen Shaw
2008 • capricious and mercurial systems A & D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL curator
2008 • Joan Giroux, Associate Professor, Art and Design Department
2008 • Site Specifics ’08, The Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 2006 2006 • War Is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 • Speed Limit, REDHEAD Project Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2005 • Benefit Exhibition, Matzo Files, New York, NY
2001 • Surface Tension, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, curator Mary Murray, Modern and Contemporary Art, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
2001 • Spelling: An Exhibition About Women, Art and Language, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY, curator Randal Davis
2001 • Art for Air Benefit, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY Sculpture Space Benefit Art Auction, New York, NY
1999 • Time/Patterns, Mooney Center Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1999 • Art Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences Exhibition, Mooney Center Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1999 • Little BIG Drawing Exhibition, N3 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998 • Whatever Floats Your Boat, Sculpture Fields, ArtOmi, Ghent, NY.
1998 • 11th International Arts Festival, Convergence XI, City of Providence Parks Department, Providence, RI
1997 • From the Ground Up, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1997 • Patchworks: Contemporary Interpretations of the Quilt Form, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1997 • Celebration of the Art and Artists, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
1997 • Inter/Change: Sculpture for a Changing Landscape, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY (catalog)
1997 • Death, Dying, and Mourning, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1996 • SIX Sculptors, Eich Space, New York, NY
1996 • L x W x H = ?, Visual Arts Program at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, New York, NY
1995 • Work in Progress, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
1995 • page 13, one-night stand, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1995 • Help Stamp Out Cultural Amnesia, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
1994 • Margie Neuhaus and Madeleine Silber, P.S. 122, New York, NY Chamber II, Chamber, New York, NY
1991 • In-between, outdoor sculpture installation, Bard College, Annandale, NY
1991 • Ascending Structures, Zintzmeyer and Lux, New York, NY
1991 • Celestial Structures, Peter Clark Gallery, Cold Spring, NY
1990 • Selections, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY