Margaret Whyte | |
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| Born | 21 February 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Awards | Figari Award (2014) |
| Website | www |
Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist. [1]
Margaret Whyte | |
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| Born | 21 February 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Awards | Figari Award (2014) |
| Website | www |
Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist. [1]
Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with Clarel Neme , Jorge Damiani , Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, Hugo Longa , and Fernando López Lage . [2] She has been a member of the Contemporary Art Foundation (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 , Lacy Duarte, and Enrique Aguerre , cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world. [4]
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