Press Release

NEW ORLEANS - Heriard-Cimino Gallery presents Fixing the Attitude in a Slightly Forward Leaning Position, new paintings by Margaret Evangeline. This exhibition will be on view from October 6 – 31, 2007.  A reception to meet the artist will be held on Saturday, October 6th from 6 until 9 p.m. in conjunction with Art for Arts’ Sake, an annual celebration throughout the Warehouse Arts District.  The public is invited.  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 until 5, or by appointment.

Evangeline’s exhibition, Fixing The Attitude In A Slightly Forward Leaning Position is a series of large dramatic paintings, atmospheric environments, elegant, raw, and sumptuous. The paintings unfold, creating compelling visual experiences significant for their uniqueness of color, textures and Evangeline’s intuitiveness. Evangeline paints with self-assured strokes, creating engaging tension between surface and gesture.

In discussing her work, Evangeline says, “In this exhibition there are images that resemble paths, finding a path through one's own wilderness. And there are atmospheric paintings highlighted with crystalline that refer to environments, physical environments and the overlapping social environments of our personal energies. These are optimistic paintings about hope and release from isolation, about letting go defenses that keep us in the illusion we are separate individuals rather than part of universal flow. Relaxing boundaries of self is the goal of all creative activity that leads us to harmonious lives. It begins with fixing the attitude in a slightly forward leaning position toward the mirror of the world.”

Margaret Evangeline was born in Baton Rouge, LA, and lived for many years in New Orleans before moving to New York in 1992. Evangeline received her M.F.A. and B.A. from the University of New Orleans. Evangeline has had more than forty solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad and has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the ART/OMI Foundation Artist in Residence.  Evangeline is preparing for a large site-specific installation on the River Thames in London on a barge across from the Tate Modern in 2008.