Golden Dawn Gallery

Photo: Eddie Moore

Artist Margarete Bagshaw has been long known for her use of color, composition and texture. This exciting Modernist has been featured in many publications including but not limited to: "Southwest Art" magazine, "Native Peoples" magazine, and the "New Mexico Magazine". She has successfully shown in two of the most prestigious galleries in Santa Fe over the past 10 years, and now owns her own gallery featuring the work of herself, her mother - Helen Hardin, and her grandmother - Pablita Velarde. Margarete has taken part in over a dozen major museum exhibitions, including: the Eiteljorge Museum of American and Western Art in Indianapolis, IN, the Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM, the Hamden Museum in Virginia, and numerous invitational shows with the Museum of Albuquerque, NM. In 1996, she gave a personal slide presentation at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.

As the subject of a documentary film project, Margarete spoke at the dedication ceremony for the donation of "The White Collection" (featuring a number of Margarete's works), at the Lakeview Museum in Illinois in September of 2008. After painting and showing in the Virgin Islands for the last 3 years, Margarete is now back at home in New Mexico. Margarete was recently offered a "One Woman" show at an Arizona Museum for the Spring of 2010 and is currently painting for that show.

Margarete paints two dimensional works on canvas and board panels as well as three dimensional works of clay - both flat and shaped. Her paintings are colorful combinations of shape, texture, and light, and her paintings are completely in symmetry with her three dimensional clay pieces.

Her work is an expression of the spirituality that the creation of art is all about for Margarete. The intricate and detailed multi-compositional aspect of her images reveals the many layers of thought that all of her work contains. From small works to larger canvases - all include complex compositions that hold their own individually throughout each painting and as well as in a single complex composition as a whole.

Clearly picking up from where her mother left off, Margarete is a Modernist Abstract Compositional Artist to follow.