MEG COGBURN

Meg Cogburn is an American artist and designer from Miami Beach, Florida.  She is a lifelong painter, printmaker, and costumer who has primarily practiced architecture and design for the last 20 years. Meg graduated with honors from The University of Texas in Austin School of Architecture, where she also studied printmaking and enjoyed membership with Flatbed Press. Currently based in Florida, her return to a focus on painting is inspired by esprit de l’age and a compelling need to communicate societal critique through her experience as a woman.   

 A devotee of Catalan Surrealism, Spanish Baroque, and Austrian Expressionism, Meg describes her artistic voice as a fusion of European Formalism and Primitivism, a marriage of her Dutch and Native American heritage.  Meg is an accomplished intaglio and stone lithography printmaker, and has also exhibited her watercolor and acrylic paintings, ink drawings, and pencil illustrations.  Her paintings have been included in the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Miami Art Week/Art Basel, and the Venice Biennale, and her costumery has been an exciting feature for numerous charity events and parades in Austin and New Orleans.  While much of Meg’s work explores color and pattern in light in the natural world and built environment, her recent acrylic paintings endeavor to comment upon shared life experience through symbology and narrative composition.

 Inspired by biblical themes, primitive folklore, and mysticism, Meg’s work is informed by intensely personal experience.  Her early years as child prodigy has created a lifelong identification with otherness and the role of outsider. A great love of horses and study of the natural world is evidenced in her art.  Profoundly influenced by spiritual revelation as revealed by the figure of Visionary, Meg’s work speaks to dream and transformation through destruction, metamorphosis, and rebirth.