MARGO SAWYER FAAR Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist of the Year. 2015 Bright & Early Building, 107 South Ave C, Elgin, TX 78621 512-281-4808 [email protected] www.margosawyer.com
Born: 1958 May 6, 1958, Washington, D.C.
Education: 1980-82 M.F.A. Yale University.
1980 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
1977-80 B.A. Hon’s, Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain.
1976-77 Foundation, Brighton Polytechnic Faculty of Art, Great Britain.
Teaching: 1988 Assistant Professor - University of Texas at Austin, 1988 – 1993.
Associate Professor - University of Texas at Austin, 1993 – present.
Assistant Chair of Studio, Department of Art & Art History – University of Texas at Austin, 1997 – 1998.
Professor - University of Texas at Austin, 2002 – present.
Honors: 2016 Dora Maar Fellowship, November
Visiting Artist at Franz Mayer of Munich
2015 Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist of the Year.
Austin Critics Table Awards: Artist of The Year 2014-2015
Austin Critics Table Awards nomination for best museum exhibition: Margo Sawyer, Reflect at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum
2013 Awarded the CoD+A Award/ Design + Art Award. Torcasso Residence
Artist - in - residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington.
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
2009 Year in Review 2009. America for the Arts & Public Art Network.
2008-09 University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
2007-08 Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin.
2004 Dean’s Fine Arts Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin.
2003 Artist - in - residence, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2001 Artist - in - residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington.
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, 2001.
2000 Artist - in - residence, Artpace San Antonio, Texas.
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin.
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
1999 Nominated for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award.
1998 College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
1996 Japan Foundation Fellowship for Artists.
1995-96 Fulbright, Senior Research Grant to Japan.
1995 University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
1994 Travel Grants Fund for Artists, a joint project of the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International.
University Research Institute Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
1993 College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
1990 College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
1989 C.A.M.L.S, University of Texas at Austin.
Change, Inc.
College of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
College of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin.
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
1988 Athena Corporation.
1987 Art Matters, Inc. New York State Council for the Arts Grant.
1986-87 American Academy in Rome Fellowship.
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.
1982-83 Fulbright Grant to India.
1982 Susan H. Wheden Award, Yale University.
1981 Ford Foundation Travel Grant.
1980-82 Yale University.
1980 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Solo Shows: 2017 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas. Texas. November
Synchronicity of Color, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas. April 29 –May 27, 2017
Reflector, Playhouse, San Antonio, Texas.78
2014 Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, Texas. May 6 – October 19, 2014
Synchronicity of Color, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, Texas. April 4 – May 29, 2014
2009 Synchronicity of Color, AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. January 24 – May 9, 2009.
Margo Sawyer and Tommy Fitzpatrick, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas. 12 September – 14 November 2009
2008 Synchronicity of Color, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas. June 21 – August 15, 2008.
2005 Cloud of Unknowing, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September 17 – October 15, 2005.
2004 Contemplative Spaces, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, April 24 – June 13, 2004.
2003 Margo Sawyer: New Installations, Artists in Residence, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25, 2003 – June 27, 2004.
Fragment of an Index for Contemplation: Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 7-31 2003.
2002 Index for Contemplation, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, January 18 – March 15, 2002
2001 Ten + One Illuminations, University of Texas at El Paso, January 18 – February 15, 2001.
2000 Margo Sawyer: International Artist-in-Residency Program 00.2, Ten + One Illuminations, Artpace San Antonio, Texas, June 9 – July 16, 2000.
Margo Sawyer, Rudolph Poissont Gallery, Houston, Texas, April 22 – May 30, 2000.
1999 Transformation II, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas, April 24 - May 30, 1999.
Transformation, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, January 21 - February 27, 1999.
1998 Presence and Absence, Austin Art Museum at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, June 13 – August 30, 1998.
1996 Elysium Room, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan, December 10 – 21, 1996.
Margo Sawyer, International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, December 4 – 13, 1996.
Elysian Fields, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan, November 22 - December 15, 1996.
1994 Projects (with Thana Lauhakaikul & Mike Scranton), DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, January 29 - March 5, 1994.
1992 The Journey, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, May 14 - June 21, 1992.
1991 Margo Sawyer, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York, January 3 - February 2, 1991.
1989 Margo Sawyer, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York, February 18 - March 18, 1989.
Special Projects, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, January 13 - March 12, 1989.
1983 Beginning and End, British Council, Bombay, India, April 1983.
Selected Group Shows:
2017 PAST/PRESENT, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas. January 8 – February 12, 2007
2016 PURE, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas. November 12, 2016 – January 8, 2007
Texas State Artists, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
TARGET TEXAS: The Meaning of Mixed, at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, Texas. May 12 – August 21, 2016
2015 Texas Abstract, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, Texas. October 2 – November 30, 2015.
AMPlified ABStraction, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas. July 12 – October 11, 2015.
Texas Abstract, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas. April 18 – May 16, 2015
Back and Forth Celebrating 10 Years, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas. April 4 – June 20, 2015.
Inquiry: Department of Art & Art History Faculty, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin. January 30 – February 21, 2015
ABSTRACT, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston Texas. January 10 – February 22, 2015.
2014 Texas Abstract, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 2014
Faculty Picks, Cinnabar Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. May 15 – July 30, 2014. Curated by Margo Sawyer and Liz Ward. Adriana Corral, Phil LaDeau, Clay Reuter, Margo Sawyer, and Liz Ward.
2013 transFIGURATION: a Rino Pizzi Project, Big Medium, Austin, Texas. November 22 - December 21, 2013
Part Two Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. November 9 – December 8, 2013 OF PRINTMAKING AT FLATBE 2012 Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas. June 14, 2012– August 11, 2012.
The Mona Lisa Project, by Rino Pizzi, Peoples Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas. February 24, 2012 – January 10, 2013.
2011 3D Design #3. Masolow Gallery at Marywood University Art Galleries, Scranton, Pennsylvania. November 7, 2011 – November 2011.
The Mona Lisa Project, by Rino Pizzi, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, September 21 – November 6, 2011.
New Works: The Mona Lisa Project, by Rino Pizzi, Austin Museum of Art, June 4 – September 11, 2011.
Sculpting Life: Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Austin, Texas. In honor of the centennial Elisabet Ney Museum and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. April 27 – July 25, 2011.
2010 Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. November 26, 2010 – February 13, 2011.
Combined: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin. November 5 – December 18, 2010.
Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. June 2 – September 12, 2010
2009 Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas. February 1 – January 2010.
Water: A Student Curated Exhibition , The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art at Marywood University, Scranton, PA. May 1 - 25, 2009
Group Exhibition: Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. September 15 - December 9, 2009
2008 The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, November 15, 2008 – February 09, 2009
Atelier 10, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, April 9 – June 10, 2008
2008 Double X, Step Gallery, Arts, Arizona State University, October 22, 2007 – October 26, 2008
2006 5 x 7, Arthouse, Austin, Texas. May – June 2006
2005 Two by Two: For AIDS and Art, Seventh Annual Dinner and Art Auction Benefiting AMFAR and the Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky House, October 8, 2005.
ASAp: Artist Salute Artpace, a Benefit Auction to Celebrate Artpace San Antonio’s 10th Anniversary, Christie’s, New York, New York, April 28, 2005.
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, April 2 – 30, 2005.
Color, Pattern, Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, March 5 – May 15, 2005.
2004 Gardens: Real and Imagined, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, October 6, 2004 – September 25, 2005.
Hive, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, September 10 – 30, 2004.
2003 Upwards, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Texas, January 21 – February 26, 2003.
2002 Art Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, October 9 – November 10, 2002.
2001 Loudly Minimal, Quietly Baroque: The Best of 1/4 Hora Projects Space, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, November 2, 2001 – December 14, 2001.
2000 Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, December 1, 2000 – January 12, 2001.
62ndArt Faculty Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, November 9 – December 10, 2000.
Sculptors Drawing, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas, October 22 – 31, 2000.
Drawings, David Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas, June 22 – August 26, 2000.
1/4 Hora Perennial, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas, April 8 – 16, 2000.
Contemplative Exactitude, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas, February 4 – 13, 2000.
1999 61stArt Faculty Exhibition, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, November 11 – December 1, 1999.
Fault Lines, ArtScan, Houston, Texas, February 27 – March 26, 1999.
1998 60th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, November 6 – December 6, 1998.
It’s About Design, Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, September 18 – 26, 1998.
1996 New Airport Art, Dougherty Arts Center Gallery, Austin, Texas, January 2 – 29, 1996. Catalogue.
1995 Fifteenth Annual Abilene Outdoors Sculpture Exhibition with Works by Four Major Texas Sculptors, Nelson Park, Abilene, Texas, September 16, 1995 – August 31 1996.
1994 Transformations: The Alchemy of Change, Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, April 21 – May 7, 1994.
Drawing: Crossing the Line, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, May 14 – June 18, 1994. Catalogue.
56thArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, November 10 – December 11, 1994.
1993 55thArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, November 11 – December 12, 1993.
In Response to Nature, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, November 14, 1993 – March 20, 1994.
1992 My Blue Heaven, Silent Auction for Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, Texas, November 20 – December 20, 1992.
54th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, November 19 – December 6, 1992.
Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida. October 11 – November 1, 1992.
The Box, Silent Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas. April 20 – May 9, 1992.
Visions of Beauty, Baure House, Austin, Texas, April 7 – May 15, 1992.
1991 53rdArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, January 17 – February 23, 1991.
1990 52ndArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, November 9 – December 9, 1990.
1989 L.A. Art Expo, (represented by Meyers/Bloom), Los Angeles, California, December 1989.
Fresh Ideas/Idiosyncratic Perspectives, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California, September 9 – October 14, 1989.
1988-89 Sculptors Working, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, October 16, 1988 – March 1989. Catalogue.
1987 Borsisti Americani, American Academy in Rome, Italy, May 27 – June 19, 1987. Catalogue.
1986-88 Skowhegan Ten Year Retrospective: A Traveling Exhibition. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York October 18 – 26, 1986; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, June 13 – July 13, 1987; University of Maryland Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, January 27 – March 8, 1988. Catalogue.
1981 Sculptors Drawing, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
1980 The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain.
New Students, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
1979 Drawing Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Great Britain.
The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain.
1978 Capital Elm, Hyde Park, London, Great Britain.
Drawing Show, Mall Galleries, London, Great Britain.
Commissions:
2015-16 University of Houston at Victoria, Texas.
2013 Synchronicity of Color, interior and Slip Garden, for Eskenazi Health (formerly, The New Wishard Hospital) Indianapolis, Indiana.
2012 Torcasso Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two art structures that are art, architectural and form a function. Collaboration with Larry Speck of Page, formerly: Page Southerland Page Architects.
Torcasso Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Garden design and seven unique cast glass works. Collaboration with Mesa Design.
Synchronicity of Color, interior and Slip Garden, for The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects. In Progress.
2011 Torcasso Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two art structures that are art, architectural and form a function. In, collaboration with Larry Speck of Page Southerland Page Architects. In Progress.
Synchronicity Light Receptors, City Place, Dallas. Texas. Collection of the City of Dallas. Texas. 2011
Wexler Commission, San Francisco, CA. Site-specific artwork. Installed May 2011
Wilk Commission, Hamilton, Ohio. Site-specific, color acrylic artwork. Installation August 2011.
Finalist: Art installation for infant and adult waiting room at The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects. Not commissioned
Finalist: The Cloud of Unknowing, for façade of South Parking Garage, for The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects. Not commissioned
Finalist and Commissioned: Synchronicity of Color, interior and Slip Garden, for The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects.
Finalist: Synchronicity of Color, a building façade design, for The Percent for Art Program of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Site is Public School, PS/IS 314. Consultants, Gruzen Samton Architects. Not commissioned.
Finalist: Lead Artist, for the Lady Bird lake Boardwalk Trail Art in Public Places project for the City of Austin, Austin Art in Public Places Program. Consultants, Limbacher & Godfrey Architects. Not commissioned.
2010 Finalist for Denver 12th Street Project. Designed twelve colored acrylic towers. Not commissioned.
2007 - 2010 Austin Ranch - Contemplation Plaza, a public artwork, as a plaza, Sawyer Pool, and monument with Mesa Design for Billingsley Corp. Dallas, Texas.
2005-2008 Synchronicity of Color - Red & Blue, a public artwork designed for City of Houston at Discovery Green, Houston, Texas, new 20-acre park in Downtown Park this work was completed in late March 2008.
2005-2008 Synchronicity of Color- Yellow & Violet, a public artwork designed for Discovery Green Conservancy at Discovery Green, Houston, Texas.
2007-2008 Index for Contemplation, a public artwork designed for One Arts Plaza, Dallas Texas.
2005-2007 Contemplation Garden, a public artwork designed for Whole Foods World Head Quarters, commissioned by Schlosser Development, Austin, Texas.
2003-2006 Index for Contemplation, a public artwork designed for the San Antonio International Airport Landscape Enhancement, San Antonio, Texas.
2004 Index for Contemplation, an artwork created for Art House, Dallas, Texas.
2000-02 Index for Contemplation, a public artwork created for the Austin Convention Center Expansion. Funded by the Austin Art in Public Places Program and the City of Austin. This work spans a wall 40 ft. high and 300 ft. long.
1992 Margo's World, The Sharir Dance Company, in its 10th Anniversary season at the Performing Arts Center, Bass Concert Hall, Austin, Texas, April 1 and 2, 1993.
1993 Margo's World, B. Iden Payne Theater, Austin, Texas, November 20 and 21, 1992.
1986 The Birdhouse Project, collaboration with Architect Marek Walczak for Hong Ning Apartments, New York, New York. Produced by CityArts Workshop and funded by New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, New York.
1978 Capital Elm, Hyde Park, London, Great Britain.
Curated Exhibitions
2014 Laurie Anderson : Landfall, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. September 27 – December 7, 2014.
Faculty Picks, Cinnabar Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. May 15 – July 30, 2014. Curated by Margo Sawyer and Liz Ward. Adriana Corral, Phil LaDeau, Clay Reuter, Margo Sawyer, and Liz Ward.
2013 – 2014 Laurie Anderson: Landfall, Curate and initiated a collaboration with, Texas Performing Art Center, Department of Art & Art History, Visual Art Center and the Humanities Research Center, which named Laurie Anderson the Cline Professor for 2013-2014.
2001 Loudly Minimal, Quietly Baroque: The Best of 1/4 Hora Projects Space, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, November 2, 2001 – December 14, 2001.
Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas. December 1, 2000 – January 12, 2001.
2000 Sculptors Drawing, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas. October 22 – 31, 2000.
1/4 Hora Perennial, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas. April 8 – 16, 2000.
Contemplative Exactitude, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas. February 4–13, 2000
1985 Robert Wilson Drawings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York.
Publications
2015 Murphy, Jack. Assoc. AIA. “Field with NO Center”, Texas Architect, Color, May/June. pg. 79- 81 ill. 5, 79-81
Gamerman, Amy. “Rammed – Earth Luxury Homes”, The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2015. Ill. Pg.
Welch, A.J. “Torcasso Residence in Mexico”, e-architect. January 7, 2015.
Banks, Emma, At Home in Elgin, Trebeza, Austin arts and Culture, April 2015. Pg. 80-95, ill, 95.
2014 Wiks, Barbara, Struc-turing-con-flu-ence, Ohio House, pg. 118-119, ill, 118-119.
Whitney, Kathleen. “Margo Sawyer: Synchronicities”, Sculpture Magazine: June 2014: Pg, 5,36-39, ill. 5,36-39.
Quinton, Luke. Art, Architecture mix at different kind of Umlauf Exhibition, Austin American Statesman, July 30, 2014.
Van Ryzin , Jeanne Claire. Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. 2014. Catalogue
McKinney, Heather. FAIA. “Subtle Layers”, Texas Architect Magazine, May – June 2014 Pg. 60-68, ill. 62,63, 65, 67.
CoD+A Awards, Interior Design Magazine , August 21, 2013, ill.
Paglia, Michael & Edwards, Jim. Texas Abstract: Modern/Contemporary. By Fresco Books. Pg.180 -185. ill, 181-185. Book
2013 Mattingly, June. Texas Contemporary Artists. Digital Book, Second Edition
Keim, Kevin. Place Notes Houston, Cover Image
Discovery Green, Houston. 5th Anniversary ill, 38-39
2012 Quilters of America, Cover
Raymond, Adam K. “Three Wonderful Days in Houston”, Hemisphere Magazine, United Airlines Magazine, April Edition 2012. ill. Cover, p. 8, 94-95. p.86-98.
PBS Houston, features Synchronicity of Color at Discovery Green. 2012
2011
"Cityplace. Area District Installs Large Scale Commissioned Public Art in New Park Space donated to the City of Dallas." Dallas Monthly News, November 11, 2011.
"Cityplace. Adorned with Art." Looking Uptown, October 2011. Vol.3, Number 3. ill. P 2.
Shilcutt, Katherine. ”Local Landmarks Dominate the 3rd Annual Gingerbread Build-Off”, Houston Press December 12, 2011.
Pizzi, Rino. The Mona Lisa Project, with essays by Janis Bergan-Carter and Dana Friis-Hansen, 2011, p.48, ill.49
Cover, Houston Press, March 10-16 2011. Volume 23 No. 11
Luke Quinton
Faires, Robert. “Mona Remix Leonardo's lady gets a modern makeover in Rino Pizzi's Mona Lisa Project”. The Austin Chronicle. Friday July 1, 2011, ill.
McCray, Marilyn. “ The Mona Lisa Project: What Happens When A Photographer and 16 Women Artists Explore One Of The World’s Best-Known Paintings?” Austin Women Magazine. October 2011. P. 26
2010
The Grove – Discovery Green Park, Houston, Texas, e-architect. UK. 13th December 2010.
Simek, Peter. “Austin Ranch Gets Margo Sawyer Sculpture (With Pic’s)”, D Magazine, Front Row A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, February 17th 2010.
2009 Elizabeth, Lynch. “Commissions”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center. April 2009, Vol.28 No. 3 p. 23, il.23.
Rees, Christina. “I Dream of Architects” Catalog essay for “Geometry in Reflection-Tommy Fitzpatrick/Margo Sawyer” The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington. Catalogue. September 4, 2009.
Elliott, Nathan. “Art in the Park”, Texas Architect, May/June 2009. p. 44-49, ill p. 3, 45, 49.
Webb, Bruce. “The Grove in Discovery Green, Houston”, Architect Magazine. March, 2009. P. ill,
Jost, David. “The Biggest Little Park in the World,” Landscape Architecture, December, 2009. P.82-93. Ill, 88, 93.
Britt, Douglas. “Everyone’s a winner: Wayne Dolcefino, Margo Sawyer, HAA.” Houston Chronicle, Arts in Houston Thursday, June 25, 2009. P.17. Naylor, June. “ Houston’s Discovery Green Downtown Playground” Texas Highway, July 2009 ill. 48,49, p. 49-53.
2008 “Commissions in Brief”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center. April 2008 Vol. 27 No. 3 p. ill. 65.
“Margo Sawyer A life by Design”, Austin Woman, Vol. CII, No.2 October 2008. Il. Cover, p. ill. 11, 62-68.
Public Art in Review, Issue 39 Fall/Winter 2008 p.il.75
Blumenthal, Ralph, “No Need to Apologize: City Tries a Little Boasting”, The New York Times, April 2, 2008. Houston Journal. ill. ½ pg.
2006 Duval Reese, Becky. “Texas 100 Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art”, Book. 2006
2004
Keim, Kevin. Multi-Sourcing, Places Journal, Volume 16 Issue 2, 2004
Sultan, Terrie. “Margo Sawyer: Contemplative Spaces”, Blaffer Gallery the Art Museum of the University of Houston. Catalogue, 2004.
Moloney, Tim. “Blaffer Gallery is Fast Becoming the Exhibition Space for the Uber-Hip,” 002 Magazine, June 2004, p. 16-17; ill. 17.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. ”Sawyer's Adventures "Contemplative Spaces" explores the sublime in blue and yellow,” Houston Press . April 22, 2004.
2003 Shaw, Kurt. “Mattress Factory Goes Above and Beyond for Its Artists,” Pittsburgh Tribune- Review, September 7, 2003.
2002 Willour, Clint. “An Obsession with Compulsion,” ArtLies, No. 35, Summer 2002. p. 8 -11, ill. 10.
Ewing, John. “Reviews” Tema Celeste, Contemporary Art. No. 91. 2002. p. 95, ill. 95.
2001 Bonansinga, Kate. “Ephemerality of the Moment: A Conversation with Margo Sawyer,” Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001, Vol. 20, No. 6. http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag01/julaug01/sawyer/saw.shtml
Bonansinga, Kate. “Margo Sawyer: Ten + One Illuminations,” Sculpture Magazine, Summer 2001, p. 1ll.
“The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2001 Awards.” Catalogue. p.64-65; ill. 64-65.
2000 Knudson, Rainey. “Alternative Spaces,” Canvas Magazine, Fall 2000, p.13, ill. Cover, 5,13.
Duncan, Michael. “Report From San Antonio,” artnet.com, August 2, 2000. Ill.
Barnes, Michael. “Lightweight, But Not Empty,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, July 29th, 2000, p. Arts, D8.
Goddard, Dan R. “ArtPace Works Play with Light, Conflict,” San Antonio Express News, Sunday, July 9, 2000, p. 8H. Ill. 8H.
Kutner, Janet. “Austin Museum of Art,” Dallas Morning News, Sunday, July 2000, pg. Ill. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Trio of Artists Make the Most of Space,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, June 24, 2000, D5.
Faires, Robert. “Articulations,” Austin Chronicle, May 11, 2000.
Barnes, Robert. “Last Word in the Arts,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, May 4, 2000, p. Arts, Ill.
Ward, Liz. “Margo Sawyer: Ten + One Illuminations,” ArtLies, No. 27, Summer 2000, p. 80, ill. 80. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “1/4 Hora gets into the Spring of Things,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, April 15, 2000, p. D7, Ill. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Exhibition Worthy of Quiet Contemplation,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, February 12, 2000 D8, ill.
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. Austin American Statesman, Sunday, January 30, 2000, Ill. K14.
Segal, Katie. “Ten + One Illuminations,” Artpace San Antonio, Catalogue, 2000.
1999 Shaila Dewan. “Drawing: A Blank. The CAM can't get a line on lines”, Houston Press Arts Thursday, Mar 25 1999.
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Transformation: An installation by Margo Sawyer,” Austin American Statesman, February 13, 1999, p. D9. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “A New Kind of Art Place,” Austin American Statesman, December 2, 1999, p. Arts, 47, Ill. 47.
1998 Shade, Christopher. “Margo Sawyer: Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria,” ArtLies, No. 20, Fall 1998, p. 49, ill. 49.
Cohen, Rebecca. “Spiritual Presence,” The Austin Chronicle, August 21, 1998, p. 42, 44, ill. 42, 44.
Bonansinga, Kate. “Gardens of Meditation,” Willamette, August 5, 1998, p. 57, 58. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Rooms with a View,” Austin American Statesman. June 25, 1998, p. 51, ill. 51.
Connolly, Mary Anne. “Culture Calendar,” Brilliant Magazine, Image (Blue, 1998), p. 45.
Friis-Hansen, Dana. “Margo Sawyer: Presence and Absence,” Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, 1998. Catalogue.
1996 Rosenthal, Mila. "Pachinko Fields of Paradise,” Asahi Evening News, Thursday, December 5, 1996, pg. 11, ill. 11.
Kasama, Akiko. "The Pachinko Garden,” The Daily Yomiuri, Tuesday, December 3, 1996, p. 10, ill. 1, 10.
Kasama, Akiko. "The Pachinko Garden,” The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tuesday, November 22, 1996, p. 35, ill. 35.
Cohen, Rebecca. "New Airport Art", The Austin Chronicle, January 12, 1996, p. 24.
Shimizu, Toshio. “Margo Sawyer: Elysian Fields”, Sagacho Exhibit Space 1996. Catalogue.
1995 King-Hammond, Leslie. “Masks and Mirrors: African American Art, 1750-NOW” Abbeville Press.
1994 Clarke, John. "Margo Sawyer at DiverseWorks,” Art in America, September 1994, p. 121.
Kalil, Susie. "Art as Ecstasy: Three Disarming and Mesmerizing Installations at DiverseWorks,” The Houston Press. March 3-9, 1994, p. 31.
Buron, Bernard. "Drawing Crossing the Line,” DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas. p.16, 18, ill. 24. Catalogue.
1992
Lomax, Sandra. "Sharir Does the Unexpected with Traditional New Show,” The Austin American Statesman, D7, November 17, 1992.
Levy, Rebecca. "The Artists' Eye," The Austin Chronicle, June 12, 1992, Vol. X1, No.41.
Kelly, Lee. The Austin American Statesman, June 20, 1992.
Kelly, Lee. The Austin American Statesman, May 14, 1992, D3.
1990 Robertson, John. "Artistic Faculties," The Austin Chronicle, November 30, 1990, Vol. X, No. 14.
1989 "Going on about Town," The New Yorker, March 6, 1989, p. 16, 17.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Margo Sawyer," The New York Times/Living Arts, Friday, February 24, 1989, p. Y23.
1987 de Candia, Mario. "Il Piacere dell'occhio," La Repubblica, Trova Roma, May 22-28, 1987, p. 48, ill. 45.
Pardee, Hearne. "The Arts: Skowhegan: A 10 Year Retrospective," Portland Monthly, April 1987.
1986 Phillips, Patricia. "Margo Sawyer & Marek Walczak: The Birdhouse Project," Artforum, p. 117, December 1986, ill. 117.
Russell, John. "Alumni of the Skowhegan School," New York Times, October 24, 1986.
1985 Bourgeult, Cynthia. "Skowhegan Ten-Year Retrospective 1975-1985," Exhibition Catalogue, p. 52, ill. 67. 1985
1983 Clerk, S.I. "American Sculptor's Discovery of India," Free Press Bulletin, Bombay, India. April 14, 1983, Vol. 36, No. 220. Lal, Laksmi. "Beginning and End," Sunday Times of India, April, 1983.
1980 Morgan, Stuart. "New Contemporaries," Artscribe, 1980.
1979 Rippon, Peter. "On Making it: ICA & CAA," Artscribe, No. 17, 1979.
1978 Brown, Mick. "Dead Trees Become Something to Enjoy," London Sunday Times, May 28, 1978.
Radio and Television:
2005 Downtown, KLRU, PBS affiliates for Austin, Texas, Channel 18.
2004 Because Art Matters, Artpace San Antonio mini-documentary.
1998 El Paso Channel 8 News, Morning Show interview on Ten + One Illuminations. (Shown January 2001)
Channel 8 News & Fox News Austin. Interview on Art & Video: Part One, at 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas. (Shown on February 2001)
1996 NHK News, Kansai Area, Japan. Film interview at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan. (Shown November 25, 1996)
TV Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Filmed, interview at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan. (Shown December 5, 1996)
TV Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Filmed, interview at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan. (Shown December 5, 1996)
1994 Channel 7 News, Abilene, Texas. Filmed at the Fifteenth Annual Abilene Outdoors Sculpture Exhibition at Nelson Park, Abilene, Texas. (Shown September 17 1995)
1995 Channel 36 News, Austin, Texas. Filmed at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum. (Shown on November 20 1992)
1991 Channel 36 News, Austin, Texas. Filmed the installation of my exhibition at Women & Their Work. (Shown on May 12 1992)
1985 Brits in America, Documentary on British People Working in USA. Filmed working in my studio. Produced by Peter Tiffin for Thames Television, England. (Shown in UK. January 15, 1985)
1987 Capital Elm Project on Capital Radio, London, England.
In the Collection of:
Museum Collections: The Contemporary, Austin, Texas (formerly, the Austin Museum of Art) El Paso Museum of Art, Texas. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art at Marywood University, Scranton, PA.
Corporate Collections: Austonia, Austin,TX Billingsley Company, Dallas, TX Champion Paper, New York, NY. Chemical Bank, New York, NY. Inter-Metro Industries, New York, NY. Progressive Corporation, New York, NY. Proskaver, Rose, Goetz, and Mendelson, New York, NY. Prudential Insurance, New York, NY.
City Collections: City of Austin, Texas. City of Dallas, Texas City of Houston, Texas. City of San Antonio, Texas City of New York, New York.
Selected Private Collections: Jim & Caroline Clark. David Beitzel. Martin & Charlene Cohen. Howard & Judy Ganek. Leon Hess, Amerada Hess. Linda & Jerry Janger. Lester Marks. Ned Rifkin. John Robertson. Martin Sklar. Rick & Cynthia Torcasso.
Visiting Artist: 2010 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2008 University of Colorado at Boulder.
2002 Carnegie University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2001 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington.
University of Texas, El Paso, Texas.
2000 Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
Universidad de Granada, Spain.
1999 University of Colorado at Boulder.
1996 Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan.
1995-96 Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan.
1995 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.
1989 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy.
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy.
1985 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
1983 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.
1983 West Surrey College of Art & Design, Great Britain.
Baroda School of Art, Gujarat, India.
1982-83 Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India.
1982 Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain.
Selected Public Lectures: 2011 The Mona Lisa Project, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grad Rapids, Michigan.
2011 Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, December 13, 2011.
2010 Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. July 2, 2010.
The Mona Lisa Project, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas. Thursday, May 27, 2010.
2008 “Juggling Fire an Artists Story”, Eaton Lecture Series at the National Humanities Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.
The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, November 15, 2008 – February 09, 2009.
2004 Participant in the seminar “The Work of Religion: Past, Present, Future,” Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows, The University of Texas at Austin.
“The Field and Its Knower: Lessons for an Installation Artist from the Far East,” The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, February 18, 2004 & Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
2001 University of Texas at El Paso, Texas.
1998 ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas. A discussion with Katie Segal, Joachim Koester, Maurizio Cattelan, and Kathryn Kanjo.
Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Texas, Lecture Series.
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, Texas, Lecture Series.
Universidad de Granada, Spain.
Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
1999 University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.
1998 Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas.
1997 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
1995 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.
1985 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy.
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy.
1983 Baroda School of Art, Gujarat, India.
Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India.
West Surrey College of Art & Design, Great Britain.
1983, 87 Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain.
MARGO SAWYER - NARRATIVE C.V.
I was born in D.C. in1958, I received most of my formal education in the United Kingdom. I started my art training in 1976 at the Brighton Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design. In 1980, I received a B.A. Honors degree from
Chelsea School of Art in London. My interest in contemporary American art led me to the United States, where in the summer of 1980 I was awarded a scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. That same year
I entered the sculpture program at Yale University, where I received my M.F.A. in 1982. After completing graduate school, I spent one year in India on a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant (1982-83). I returned to New York and worked for Paula Cooper Gallery and studio assistant to: Joel Shapiro, Jackie Winsor and Michael Hurson. In 1986-87 I was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and
New York State Council for the Arts Grant for Public Art. In September 1988, I joined the faculty of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Since being in Texas I have conducted research in India and Myanmar, funded in part by Travel Grants Fund For Artists, 1994 (a joint project through the National
Endowment for the Arts and Arts International). For a year and a half I lived in Japan, made possible by a Fulbright
Senior Research Fellowship, 1995-96, and a Japan Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, 1996. There I studied the aesthetic structure and meanings of Japan's traditional landscape design and provided a better understanding of their relationship with contemporary Japanese and Western Installation Art. In 2000 I was a resident at [ArtPace], A
Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio. In 2001 I was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.
In 2003 I had solo exhibitions at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and in 2004 at the Blaffer Gallery at the
University of Houston. In 2008, I received a Faculty Research Grant from the University of Texas at Austin, for a faculty competitive sabbatical to complete the larges work of my life “Synchronicity of Color- Red & Blue” for the city of Houston and Discovery Green. This work was just honored in Public Art in Review 2009, by America for the Arts and Public Art in Review.