Meg Arsenovic is an artist raised by a leopard-print-loving yankee from Long Island, NY, and a map-obsessed sailor from Savannah, GA. Her work explores the physical and maternal experience of raising young children in the coastal rural south; a place vulnerable to high winds, hurricanes, storm surges and flooding, and churning with recurrent historic tensions and turbulence too. Meg works primarily with playful textiles and utilitarian objects, often combining nautical imagery and warning signal codes with distinct 90s childhood media and classic literature references. With one eye on the past and another on the horizon, her work often abstracts the rich metaphors of impact events, from an ancient meteor strike to the meteorological. Radiating ripples and contrasting stripes offer moments that lull and hypnotize. Through the use of complex textures with colors that range from joyful to jolting, her work examines the collision of nostalgia and reality, innocence and violence, comfort and conflict.
Photo credit Phoebe Kuo
Meg Arsenovic (1987, West Point, VA) is a multidisciplinary artist living on the remote rural edge of the Chesapeake Bay in Diggs, Virginia. Meg received her BFA in Craft/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Appalachian Center for Craft (TN) and Quirk Gallery (VA), as well as group shows and traveling exhibitions across the country including Massey Klein Gallery (New York, NY) the upcoming Virginia Biennial at The Museum of Contemporary Art (VA), The Taubman Museum of Art (VA), Sienna Patti Contemporary (MA), Fiberart International (PA), ARTFIELDS (SC), and The Chapter House LA (Los Angeles, CA). She has been awarded both a Haystack Studio Residency and a Monson Arts Residency. Her work is included in multiple corporate and private collections including the internationally distinguished collection of Bill and Pam Royall.