About MG

FROM MUMMIES TO VEGETABLES

PROVOCATIVE ARTIST DEBUTS IN NEW YORK CITY

New York, NY, February 22, 2003 – From mummies to vegetables, this artist’s work is eclectic, engaging and dynamic. New Yorkers will have their first chance to experience MG’s powerful oil paintings at Concept Management Group’s Young Designers Showcase – “Winter Wonder 2003”, opening to the public Saturday, February 22, 2003 at the Eickholt Gallery in SoHo.

MG’s story is anything but conventional. 1999: ‘M’ packs a truck and leaves her home state of Rhode Island for the Gold Coast of Mexico. She lives seaside in a small Mexican town, teaching herself to paint. 2001: three years after completing her first painting, MG lands a solo exhibition in Guadalajara at the prestigious Galeria Arte Moderno (Modern Art Gallery). The show is a success, earning praise and press including front page art section coverage throughout major newspapers. 2002: MG moves to Brooklyn. 2003: after only a few months in the city, MG makes her New York debut in SoHo.

"I believe MG has immense talent, her work is bright, beautiful and definitely sensual", comments the show’s curator, Brad Gishen, who chose six paintings to represent the diversity of her work completed over the last three years. A brilliant magenta beet, pictured cross sectioned and enlarged gratuitously, is vibrant and immediate. From the ‘abstract realism’ series, ‘beet’ is initially perceived by the viewer as abstract, but upon further inspection reveals itself as a realistic work. ‘Lightning’, a night seascape bisected by a single bolt, is from the artist’s career launching solo exhibition, ‘Las Momias de Guanajuato’. That show includes 12 portraits, inspired by the mummies of Guanajuato paired with portraits of living people, and 4 landscapes. In ‘negative space 2’ the people are blocked out in white paint in an attempt to relegate them to how we normally view air or empty space, inverting the usual relationship of subject and background. The three other paintings exhibited are ‘kiss’, ‘peace’ and an untitled seascape.

The Showcase will be on view from February 22 – March 01, 2003 and is open to the public from 4pm to 9pm daily at the Eickholt Gallery located at 427 Broadway, 5th Floor in New York City, between Howard and Canal Streets (elevator entrance is around the corner at 45 Howard Street, buzzer #51, between Broadway and Mercer).

Photos, slides and digital images of MG’s paintings are available upon request.
For further information regarding MG contact: Jesse Lambdin, artist’s representative, at jesse@gallerymg.com or 718-497-1541. Additional information is also available at the artist’s website www.gallerymg.com.

About CMG and the Young Designers Showcase:
Following suit of five similar and successful events held in 2002, the Showcase was initiated to give young artists the opportunity to exhibit their work and network with their fellow artists and the artistic community. From fashion to fine art, furniture, jewelry and photography, the latest collections are open to the public at CMG’s Winter Wonder: Young Designer Showcase – 2003. For further information contact: Brad Gishen at cmgroup@nyc.com or 212-625-3440.

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