Margaret Whyte
Born (1940-02-21) 21 February 1940 (age 84)
Montevideo, Uruguay
OccupationArtist
Years active1972–present
AwardsFigari Award (2014)
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Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.[1]

Career

Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with Clarel Neme [es], Jorge Damiani [es], Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, Hugo Longa [es], and Fernando López Lage [es].[2] She has been a member of the Contemporary Art Foundation [es] (FAC) since its inception.[3]

Her work includes paintings, soft sculptures, installations, and interventions.[2] Whyte evokes the memory of the materials she uses – fragments of dresses, tablecloths, and bedspreads bring an intense color to her textile works in which she questions the ideals of beauty and their rituals – as a way to revalue the aesthetic independent of the beautiful.

Her assemblages are accumulations and layers of cut and torn, wrapped, tied, and sewn objects which propose a reflection on the situation of women, beauty, fashion, and their commercial logic.[3]

In 2014 she received the Figari Award in recognition of her career. The jury, composed of Olga Larnaudie [es], Lacy Duarte, and Enrique Aguerre [es], cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.[4]

Exhibitions

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Margaret Whyte" (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Galería de Búsqueda, Issues 347-355 (in Spanish). Galería de Búsqueda. 2007. p. 84. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Haber, Alicia (22 September 2012). "Margaret Whyte: la bisabuela irreverente y subversiva creadora de arte joven" [Margaret Whyte: the Irreverent Great-Grandmother and Subversive Creator of Young Art]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Premio Figari 2014: Margaret Whyte" (in Spanish). Ministry of Education and Culture. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. ^ Arte, Issue 4; Issue 6 (in Spanish). APEU Artistas Visuales. 2003. p. 33. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Centenario del MNAV (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. 2011. p. 62. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.

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