Margaret Cogswell, Wyoming Studio View, Watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 2011, unframed size: 22” x 30”, framed size: 27 ½” x 35”

The winner of this lot will also receive a signed copy of River Fugues, a 2018 book by Margaret Cogswell published by Rolling Press, Brooklyn, NY.

Artist biography: Margaret Cogswell is a mixed-media installation artist residing in New York. Cogswell was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Japan where she lived until she was 13 years old. She received her BA in English literature from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and her MFA in sculpture from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University. Cogswell is the recipient of numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009. Other awards include fellowship grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017-18, 1987, 1991), the New York Foundation for the Arts (2007, 1993), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant (2014). Since 2003, the main focus of Cogswell's work is an ongoing series of RIVER FUGUES projects that explore the increasingly politicized role of water. RIVER FUGUES is a series of individually unique mixed-media installations that explore the interdependency of people, industry and rivers. Cogswell's professional career has also included teaching studio art at SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri; Parsons School of Design in New York and Kanazawa, Japan; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Middlebury College, Vermont; The College of Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine; and the University of Hawaii-at-Manoa, Honolulu. From 1999 to 2011, Cogswell was Program Officer for the Visual Arts with the Asian Cultural Council in New York City. margaretcogswell.net