Maggie Nowinski: tendered ground

Curated by SomethingProjects - Howard el Yasin & Suzan Shutan

Artist talk on December 6, 3:30pm

Maggie Nowinski is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based

in Western Massachusetts whose practice expands drawing into sculpture

and immersive installation.

Her work treats drawing as a way of imagining space into being. Black and

white lines leave the page and are mapped onto cairn and other forms,

gathering into intricate, organic structures that seem to grow, tangle, and

inhabit the rooms. Viewers enter the drawing itself, discovering shifting

relationships between their bodies and forms that suggest both internal

anatomies and unfamiliar landscapes. Drawing becomes an environment

and spatial encounter—an imagined world experienced through movement,

proximity, and curiosity.

In tendered ground, drawing becomes an imagined terrain of navigation,

inviting the viewer’s eye and body to wander among forms that hover

between cellular and geological, bodily and botanical. Open, membrane-

like wHoles evoke wounds, leaves, organs, and passages. Below and

among them, Somaliths (body-stones) that appear both ancient and newly

formed—gather into cairns marking passage, remembrance, and uncertain

direction.

Nowinski’s installation is a form of wayfinding—where grief becomes

transformative through traces of presence and absence.