Painting and sculpture

You will see finished work available for purchase as well as works in progress.

Maggie will answer questions about her practice, such as her process, favorite materials and ongoing experiments in the studio.

As someone was raised in both eastern and western cultures, and someone who has lived and worked on multiple continents, my aspiration as an artist is to create a visual language that can communicate across cultures. Geometry became a very natural entry point for me to begin my artistic journey.

Largely self-taught, I count the Bauhaus movement, Concrete Art, and artists such as Josef Alberts, Piet Mondrian, Carmen Herrera, and Thomas Nozkowski as some of my main influences. Although geometry tends to communicate clarity and absoluteness, my intention is for my work to live and breathe in a space of tension and ambiguity, for example:

• Tension between the analytical and spontaneous sides of the self

• Tension between hard-edged forms and visceral and tactile surface textures

• Tension between harmony and discord as well as motion and stillness

• Ambiguity between visual vs. audible rhythms upon viewing the work

• Ambiguity between the color perception of the eye vs. the interpretation by the brain

• Ambiguity between chance and control in the creative process

Ultimately, my goal is for my work to generate questions in the minds of viewers, rather than providing easy answers, as well as to foster a culture of seeing slowly instead of looking quickly.

Maggie Jiang is a Seattle-based visual artist who previously worked in business and technology for many years before deciding in 2015 to become a full-time artist. Exhibiting regularly since 2016, Maggie is represented by the J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle. To date, Maggie has had three solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest and her work has been reviewed by “The Stranger”, the “International Examiner”, “Now Be Here Art”, “Visual Art Source” and others.

Maggie’s home and studio are located on the corner of NE 162nd Street and 39th Avenue NE. The studio entrance is on the lower level, facing 39th Avenue NE, but you will enter her yard from NE 162nd Street and transit across the grass lawn to reach the studio door.