Canadian born photographer Margaret Watkins — a vanguard artist whose work bridged the gap between Pictorialist to Modernist Photography in the United States during the 1920s — will be honored with a postage stamp depicting one of her iconic works, The Kitchen Sink, 1919, which will be issued by Canada's Post on Friday, March 22nd.
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This week Artnet is celebrating female artists who have made a mark on their craft. From photography to paintings and prints, these artists explore the detail in their surroundings, and play with pattern, color, and technique to create inspiring works of art. In New York, Robert Mann Gallery presents a series of images by Margaret Watkins (Canadian, 1884-1969), an early talent in the study of photography.
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The recent publication "Various Small Books" from MIT Press features text by former Robert Mann Gallery employee Phil Taylor. The book, which pays homage to the photo-conceptualist artist book pioneered by Ed Ruscha in the 1960s, was also co-edited by gallery artist Jeff Brouws, whose two portfolios, Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations and Twentynine Palms, appear in the current Gagosian Gallery exhibition Ed Ruscha: Books & Co. through April 27th.
The artist constructs and photographs still-life arrangements inspired by such art-historical precedents as paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán and Giovanna Garzoni. Fruits, vegetables, and flowers spill from their containers in an almost obscene display of abundance; many of them are overripe, splitting open, or bruised; ladybugs, butterflies, and bees hover. In two of the more over-the-top images, goldfish have escaped small bowls, landing on a bare wooden table with a spray of tiny droplets. Everything seems poised between voluptuousness and rot, at once gorgeous and doomed.
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