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Penitence And Prowess, Maggie Langford

Summer Research

This summer research project gave me the time, space and means to explore both the technical approaches to painting and the inter-weavings of being an empowered woman. During this project, I had the opportunity to travel to Italy and peruse extensive collections and museums brimming with primary source material.

Exposure to some of the most renown paintings in European history informed a restructuring of my process and technical approach to painting; they encouraged a freer, more direct application of paint. By enlivening my mark-making, I found that the figures I was creating began to breathe, rising from a two dimensional …