Current Shows

 

Madelin Coit + Margaret Fitzgerald

March 16 - April 13, 2024

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 16, 4-6 pm  



Artist Madelin Coit, Abgeshleppt, cobalt neon, 60 x 72 in.

Madelin Coit, Abgeshleppt, cobalt neon, 60 x 72 in.



 

Margaret Fitzgerald, She Said

acrylic, oil and pencil on canvas, 90 x 80 in.

 

Pie Projects is pleased to announce the opening of Madelin Coit + Margaret Fitzgerald, on Saturday, March 16, 2024 from 4 to 6 pm. The exhibition will be on view until April 13, 2024.

The work of Madelin Coit and Margaret Fitzgerald presented in this exhibition draw on influences that reference to the urban language such as graffitis and neon lights. City life has long inspired poets and artists. Author Tom Chivers, who published London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City in 2021, writes “The city resists nostalgic forms of poetry that have been handed down to us in various traditions. There is this energy and aggression and speed in a city that lends itself to poetry.”

Fitzgerald paintings on large canvas and Coit wordplay neons remind us of the singular beauty of space where one engages in visual dialogue with their community. 

Fitzgerald's scrawls patterns and intuitive swaths of color on her canvases depict an urgency in her gestural abstractions. "I'm interested in the language of graffiti and its inherent urgency to speak out about what’s going on. I’m interested in popular culture juxtaposed with the natural order of nature and its struggle to survive," she says.

Madelin Coit has worked in performance and video, painted exquisite lyrical abstractions, and played with Duchampian puns in neon. In her book Before and After Language: The Art of Madelin Coit, Jennie Hirsh writes “throughout her neon works, literal and metaphorical illumination converge, as Coit pushes through puns, wordplay, and syntactical dances that ultimately deliver a form of deeper consciousness along with spiritual enlightenment.”

Madelin Coit received her BFA from the University of Connecticut. Her career as a professional interdisciplinary artist spans fifty years and has produced numerous series in media including sprayed-oil paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, installation, video projection, writing, performance, and neon pieces.  Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Los Angeles County Museum, the Hammer Museum, the San Antonio Art Institute, the Anchorage Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Margaret Fitzgerald was born in London, England. She grew up in Japan and the United States. She studied fine art and art history in New York City at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League. She also studied at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of New Mexico. Fitzgerald has enjoyed solo shows in New York City, San Francisco and New Mexico. Her work is in private and corporate collections across the United States and abroad.


 

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Danila Rumold: Transformations

March 16 - April 13, 2024





Danila Rumold, Grounded / Groundless,
mica and ultramarine blue pigment on Kozo, mounted on pine, 64 x 48 in.

 

Concurrently with Madelin Coit + Margaret Fitzgerald, Pie Projects is honored to present Danila Rumold: Transformations. The exhibition will be on view from March 16 to April 13, and will feature several mixed media Breast installations from Rumold's Goddesses series, along with a selection of the artist's pigments on Kozo paper paintings.

"The female breast is steeped in a rich history of meanings and symbolism. Physiologically, it is how women feed and nourish their babies. Intimately, it is a site of sensual pleasure that evokes emotional and spiritual connection. Pathologically, women across all ages and ethnicities may experience discomfort and disease here, from clogged ducts to breast cancer. The shared stories of women throughout history are embodied in the complex and beautiful anatomy of the breast.  As a woman and an artist, I am connected with this deep history. When I learned that I would lose my own breast, I made a plaster mold to capture its essence. After the surgery, I began casting paper positives and covering them with materials I found in nature or that were gifted to me as a means of bringing emphasis to the interconnectedness between human bodies and the living world. This process was an act of presence both with my own emotional state and with nature as it bloomed all around me ... This work is both an acknowledgment of loss and the grief of impermanence as well as a celebration and offering of gratitude for my body as a woman, wife and mother. These breasts are the physical manifestation of a deep personal transformation. They are but one layer of beauty in a cascade of life experience to which viewers might bear witness and process their own stories."

- Danila Rumold

Grounded / Groundless, mica and ultramarine blue pigment on Kozo, mounted on pine, 64 x 48 in.

Danila Rumold, Breasts, Goddesses series, 2023, mixed media, 36 x 32 in.