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Founded in 1912, the Newport Art Museum is one of the oldest continuously operating and most highly regarded art museums and schools of its kind in the country.
The Newport Art Museum’s collection consists of approximately 3,000 works of art in a range of media including works on paper (prints, drawings, watercolors, and photographs), paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, installation works, and textiles and is expanding to include new media. Concentrated on American art and contemporary art, the Museum’s collection includes works of art from the 18th century to present.
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Maggie Nowinski’s drawings combine the sensibilities of scientific illustrations with continuous contour doodling and, most recently, stark black silhouettes to create and examine complex systems: somatic, psychological, and social. Working with layers of intricate pen and ink linework, she gives form to imagined specimens, which often appear as plant-animal hybrids, of which Nowinski says, “As they emerge I am aware that the lived experience in my body is vast and enigmatic and I think about the interplay of resilience and ache in these specimens – triumphant adaptations and self-sufficient, sometimes toxic, systems.”
Maggie Nowinski is an interdisciplinary visual artist, arts educator, and curator who lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
While her process is rooted in drawing, her artworks frequently take the format of installation and combine traditional and unusual media, audio, video and performative processes. Nowinski is adjunct faculty at Westfield State University (MA) and Manchester Community College (CT) and is Artist-Mentor with Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA/Visual Arts Program.
Maggie Nowinski, Anthropocenic Specimen / Silhouette Series II, 2019 Gouache, pen and ink on paper, 24”x32” framed, Courtesy of the artist
Maggie Nowinkski, In wHoles Habitat (turniped specimen) , 2018, Photopolymer intaglio on Hahnemuhle Copperplate, 20 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Maggie Nowinski, Anthropocenic Specimen / Unlikely Harvest, 2018, Pen and ink on paper, 27”x41” framed, Courtesy of the artist