Margie Hughto, Untitled I, 1979

Description

This artwork "Untitled I" 1979 is a mixed media collage by American artist Margie Hughto, b.1944. It is hand signed … more This artwork "Untitled I" 1979 is a mixed media collage by American artist Margie Hughto, b.1944. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. The artwork size is 10.75 x 14 inches, framed is 18.25 x 21.75 inches. Custom framed in a oak frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.

About the artist:

Margie Hughto is a mixed-media artist known for her non-traditional approach to clay. She creates site specific richly textured and colorful collage ceramic wall reliefs, paintings, and ceramic tile murals. Hughto’s pieces are created from various sized ceramic slabs/tiles. Each is glazed and fired separately and then composed much like a collage. She includes imagery from nature and the man-made world.
Her tiles are made by pressing wet clay into plaster molds. She makes the molds using objects she repurposes. The mural she created for the subway stop beneath the World Trade Center survived the September 11, 2001 attacks. However it was removed from the wall and moved when the station was reconfigured.

Public Collections
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography
Doroshenko, Peter. Margie Hughto 1980-1990. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1991.
Clark, Garth and Margie Hughto. A Century of Ceramics in the United States. New York, NY: Plume, 1979. less