Greg Kucera Gallery is excited to announce our ninth exhibition by Seattle artist, Margie Livingston. With this newest body of work, the artist continues to make work that at first glance appears to be a fearless venture into a completely new direction. She will be the first to tell you, she is anything but “without fear.”  

 The bulletin board in my studio is covered with a collection of ideas written on 3x5 cards to consider for this project. The range of things includes loss, entropy, angst, humor, flat tires, and burnt toast. At the top is a card that asks: what's the scariest thing I can do? –Margie Livingston  

 The artist draws from a long-standing personal tradition of making and sending cards, from birthday and holiday cards to invitations and thank-yous. Livingston realized these bits of personal correspondence– sometimes simple, sometimes elaborate– has always been a place where she could experiment with new images and media.  

 It seemed natural to build on this long history of personal image making, when wondering what to do next in the studio that would keep me learning and growing. It also felt risky, since I've never shown work with narrative images. Although I've reinvented my work several times, this felt like the scariest choice yet—which made it worth doing. In fact, the excitement (anxiety) of taking this left turn became one of the underlying themes. –Margie Livingston  

 Biography Margie Livingston received her MFA from the University of Washington. In 2001, a Fulbright Scholarship allowed her to study in Germany. She was the 2006 recipient of the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. In 2010, Livingston received both the Neddy Artist Fellowship for Painting and the Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust, Seattle, WA. Her work is in the collections of Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Whatcom Museum, and Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.