Maggie Grier is a self-taught painter living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. Her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering was received from University of Alabama, Birmingham. Subsequent to that she spent many years painting for her own enjoyment and selling her work through local shops and decorators while working in engineering, designing hydraulic power units and valve systems. In 2005 she determined that painting should be her life’s work. She now travels the country doing art fairs and festivals.
Artist’s Statement
Art is not a literal medium, nor should it be; rather, it ought to be affective — that is, concerned with the experience of its viewing and the feelings it provokes rather than rote representation. In my art I strive to capture not a literal landscape but the experience of landscape itself: color, light, movement, and even absence (consider the horizon, the boundary at which the land ceases to be). I consider my starting point, always, to be nature — that which is — but in the act of painting I transform it into that which is felt.
Maggie Grier’s collection is on display at the Stravitz Sculpture and Fine Art Gallery.