Margie Beth Labadie A Passion for Color & Culture Images from 2007 - 2010
About the artist: Margie Beth Labadie Trained as a traditional printmaker, Margie Beth Labadie’s studio methods now include digital tools. In the last decade her art has become a seamless combination of traditional and computer-based methods filled with the colors and forms of collected images and objects, original photographs and handmade drawings. Final works of art, sometimes printed sometimes projected, are meant to create a dialogue with viewers. Margie Beth Labadie’s work represents a confluence of artistic perspectives and sophisticated observations drawn from her experiences living and working in Eastern and Western societies. Complex visual representations include metaphoric and mythical depictions of cultures from Asia to the United States: India, Taiwan and the Americas. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, Margie Beth Labadie develops her artwork using ever-changing combinations of imagery funneled into various themed series. Her work focuses on the relationships between birds and humans, the idealized yet subversive images in advertising, as well as architectural forms defined by culture. Imagery from the “Finding My Voice” series incorporates computer generated medical visualizations of her voice during and after recovery from vocal fold surgery. All of her artworks are highly structured, deliberately built, and meticulously finished.
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“Caged Voice� is exhibited in several forms including accordion-style book. (Without covers.)
“Caged Voice” is also a time-based video.
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Artwork titles listed by series and page: Title page: Ladies of the Thar Desert (detail)
From the India Series
From the 50 Of Series
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16 50 of Something 17 50 of Something Black 18 50 of Something Else (detail)
India Train India Train (details) Ladies of the Thar Desert Rakhi Me What Do You Do With Your Hands? Place Your Bidis
From the Architecture Series 19 Italian Architecture (detail)
From the Finding My Voice Series
From the Life, Death and Birds Series
8 Finding My Voice 9 Internal Struggle 10 Sound Waves Crashing on a Silent Shore 11 Frequency 12 Finding AHHHH 13 Hearing Now (with John Antoine Labadie) 14 Caged Voice (detail, left V3) 15 Caged Voice (detail, rightV3)
20 DiNO Letters 21 Transit Invisible 22 Life, Death and Birds 23 Index of images 24 Death & Other Things (detail) Closing: Life, Death and Birds (detail), copyright and URL.
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Life, Death and Birds (detail) Copyright 2010 by Margie Labadie and Steppingstone Arts www.SteppingstoneArts.com