My paintings are the result of a painting process that mirrors the contradictory forces of growth and decay. Paint is repeatedly applied, scraped away, reapplied. Images arise from this ongoing interaction with the work in progress. The resulting paintings are gestural, intuitive, often multi- layered; like the eroding surfaces of the earth, they reveal traces of their own history.
Margaret Glew lives paints in Toronto. Using a personal language of form and gesture, she makes intuitive, layered abstracts that investigate natural cycles and the transitory nature of the material world.
She has been exhibiting her work in Toronto and environs since 1989, and is represented in Toronto by Engine Gallery. Her work was exhibited at the Toronto International Art Fair in each of the last four years, and in July, 2007, she was one of eight Canadian artists chosen to exhibit in Parca, Canada in New York, at the 511 Gallery in Chelsea. Her work is in a number of public and corporate collections, including the City of Toronto Archives, the City of Scarborough Art Collection, and the Richmond Hill Public Library.
She is an active member of the Toronto arts community, and she presently serves on the board of directors of the John B. Aird Gallery. She was for four years a member of the Loop Gallery artist collective, and was also a member of PVAC/Gallery 1313, where she served on the board and on the program committee.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 - Engine Gallery, Toronto, Lines of Communication
2008 - Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Close Encounters
Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto, Silence and Slow Time
2007 - Engine Gallery, Toronto, Shifting Borders
2006 - Loop Gallery, Toronto, Traces
2005 - Engine Gallery, Toronto, Winter Fire
2004 - Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Marking Time
Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Vegetable or Mineral
Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ordinary Angels
2002 - Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1996 - York University Faculty Club, Toronto
1994 - Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1991 - Arcadia Gallery, Toronto
1990 - Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, Cornwall, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 - John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Septette
2007- 511 Gallery, Chelsea, New York,PARCA, Canada in New York
2006 - Gallery 1313, Toronto,Earthworks (two person)
2005 - Engine Gallery, Toronto
2004 - Engine Gallery, Toronto, Engine
Parts Gallery, Toronto
Gallery 1313, Toronto, Post Minimalism
Gallery 1313, Toronto, Abstraction
2003 - Gallery 1313, Toronto,The Wet Show
Coop Gallery, Toronto
2002 - J. B. Aird Gallery, Toronto,Capable of Transformation (three person)
2001 - Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1996 - Consilium Gallery, Scarborough
1993 - J. B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, (two person)
Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1989 - Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
AWARDS
2003 - Best in show, Praxis Gallery,Landscape
Best in show, Society of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition
2000 - Best in show, Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Exhibition
1996 - Mayors award, Scarborough Arts Council Juried Exhibition
1993 - Best in show, Marine Museum Juried Exhibition
Mayors award, Visual Art Centre, Bowmanville, Ontario
GRANTS
2006, 2001, 1996 - Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
COLLECTIONS
City of Scarborough Sunnybrook Regional Health Centre
City of Toronto Archives Toronto Historical Board
Dominion Ventures Limited Transamerica Life
Richmond Hill Public Library
PRESS
Catalogue essay, Ashley Johnson,Lines of Communication
Canadian House and Home, Dec. 2009, image
Sofa Deco, April 2008. Image.
Artery, Spring 2005, volume 10, issue 1. Review of Winter Fire
The Toronto Star, February 17, 2005. Image.
Artery, Spring 2004, volume 9, issue 2. Review of Ordinary Angels
Canadian House and Home, December 2004. Images.
Magazine dArt, fall, 2004. Image.
Sunday Sun, May 26, 2000, Of Moose and More, Portrait of an Artist. Article, images.
MEMBERSHIPS
John B. Aird Gallery, Member of the Board of Directors, 2006 -present
Loop Gallery (Artists Collective) 2003 - 2006
Gallery 1313, Member of the Brd of Directors from 2003-2005. Member of the Program Committee from 2003 - 2005.
REPRESENTATION
Engine Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
