About this episode

Isaac Mann interviews feminist painter Margaret Curtis about her art and its exploration of power dynamics.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Our guest today is Margaret Curtis, a feminist painter born in Bermuda whose vivid, densely layered canvases explore power dynamics at both the personal and societal level. Margaret is an inaugural recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and her work first gained national recognition in Marcia Tucker's landmark Bad Girls exhibition at the New Museum in New York in 1994. Since then she has shown at the Brooklyn Museum, the Andy...

People in this episode

Host: Isaac Mann

Guest: Margaret Curtis

Topics covered

• feminist art
• power dynamics
• visual arts
• painting
• artist interviews

Keywords

• Margaret Curtis
• feminist painter
• art interview
• power dynamics
• Joan Mitchell Foundation
• Bad Girls exhibition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum

Places: Bermuda

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