Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
Artist in Residence
March, 2024
In March of this year I was an artist in residence at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. The Leighton Studio program provided me with a studio in the forest, good meals and a yoga mat. It was a joyous and deeply creative experience. The tableau photographs I shot there focus on the ecosystem of Banff National Park, where the Centre is located. They will be shown this fall in Los Angeles at the Wonzimer Gallery in “Echoes of Voynich”, a group show I’m also curating.
More on that project below...
Opening September 13, 2024
Curated by Marcie Begleiter
Wonzimer Gallery
341-B S Avenue 17 Los Angeles 90031 / wonzimerinfo@gmail.com
Opening: 5 pm- 10 pm/ Friday, September 13th, 2024
September 13 - October 18, 2024
Marcie Begleiter, Timothy Ely, Julie Harrison, Christina McPhee,
Blue McRight, Fran Siegel, Linnea Spransy, Snezana Petrovic
Echoes of Voynich is a group show exploring territory similar to the heretical Voynich Manuscript, an extraordinary 15th-century artifact in the collection of Yale’s Beinecke Library. The manuscript describes fantastical science, based on an idea of nature imbued with imagined spirits and anthropomorphized powers, an elaborately coded text that has eluded the most ambitious deciphering. In a similar spirit, the contemporary artists featured in this exhibition also push back on established orders of classification, offering an alternate world of unseen structures.
"New Visionary" Magazine Issue 9, February, 2024
"Marcie Begleiter uses photography, painting, sculpture, and video to catalog a future that hasn’t yet come to pass. She imagines the world that may follow our own, which is undergoing radical shifts as a result of climate change. Her recent project “A History of the Post-Anthropocene” includes photographs of real and constructed habitats, which are staged with found and altered natural objects, ceramic forms, and painted landscapes. The resulting images are reminiscent of displays in natural history museums—scientific studies of invented organisms.
Hers is a fantasy of an ecosystem that continues to mutate and thrive, perhaps long after we are gone, embracing both the sadness of what is unfolding and the unexpected renewal it could bring about. Begleiter is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally. She directed and produced the documentary “Eva Hesse,” which premiered at the Whitney Museum in 2015 and went on to play in dozens of cities worldwide."
MARCIE BEGLEITER: WHAT WILL REMAIN
Solo Show
Recent Paintings, Drawings, Photographs and Ceramics
Cambria Center for the Arts
Nov 5 - Dec 31, 2022
1350 Main Street | Cambria, CA 93428