Margaret Krug, artist, author, university professor, MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago has had solo exhibitions at The National Arts Club, A.I.R. Gallery, The Window Gallery, The Smithy, The Naturalist’s Notebook, the University of Nebraska Weber Fine Arts, the School of the Art Institute and has been in museum exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Sioux City Art Center, The Willa Cather Foundation and in numerous exhibitions at institutions throughout the United States and internationally. Krug is an associate professor in the School of Art, Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design. She is a former Senior Lecturer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the director of a painting, drawing and art history program at the Spannocchia Foundation in Italy. Krug was a 2019 Artist/Scholar resident at the American Academy in Rome. She is a contributing writer for Artist’s Magazine. She is an artist mentor, MFA Program, Lesley University College of Art and Design. She taught painting, BFA Program, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Krug was awarded the School of the Art Institute Traveling Fellowship Award for Painting: George D. and Isabella A. Brown Fellowship. She was awarded the Art and Art History Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Nebraska. Her book, An Artist’s Handbook: Material and Techniques, was published by Harry N. Abrams in New York and Laurence King Publishing, distributed worldwide by Thames and Hudson, in London in 2008. Blume in Barcelona published the Spanish edition, Dumont Publishing, Cologne, published the German edition, and Art Publish published the Russian edition. Anhui Fine Arts Publishing published the Chinese edition in Shanghai, and in 2010 her book received the “Jinguang” (golden light) award in China. Laurence King Publishing published a Special Edition, 2011, and a Second Printing, 2012, distributed worldwide by Thames and Hudson. She is at work on a forthcoming book on abstraction and the spiritual in art. Her work is in numerous private collections. Krug lives in New York City. 

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Statement

Some strands, sky, seasons, scars, the shroud that covers and reveals, threshold, embrace, shadows, intangibles, the spiritual in art may come into play. Infinite space, captured in Alfred Stieglitz’s small scale Equivalents, is a palpable presence with me, igniting my curiosity for the mantel of heaven. My drawings and paintings of sky, a luminous emptiness of vapors, atmosphere, mood, and emotion, aim to convey the feeling of air, smelt, tasted, felt on the skin. Heaven embraced through the sensual. A line of tyranny with no single source may run through along with an ever-present palliative veil suggesting that a season of upheaval and pain could signal a threshold, a passage from one age into a new era.

wind, breath, nodes