Born of Scottish parents, raised in Switzerland, trained by the Dutch at the de Kooning Academie, figurative painter Fiona McGuigan now resides in Seattle, WA. Her latest body of work explores the process of memorization, recollecting, layering, cutting, and the reassembling of one image to many. By asking questions around how we access visual memory, her ink drawings and collages reference one image, and use a restrictive process to create hundreds of drawings of the same image.
Her work has been seen locally at the Whatcom County Museum, Washington State Convention Center, Gallery One in Ellensburg, and somewhat east of Ellensburg in Monmouth IL, as part of Eric Fischl’s America: Now amd Here, at the Stage Gallery in New York and in Germany. Never one to miss an opportunity to retreat, she has done Artist Residencies at Centrum in Port Townsend, at the Atelier Niemeyer Holstein in Germany and created the Duwamish River Residency with Sue Danielson in 2012. You can reach her at 206 384-5503 or click here .