Catalog for INTERIORS retrospective
Softcover, 84 pages
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2021
Introduction by Sarah Milroy; essays by exhibition curator Jessica Bradley and writers Sheila Heti and Ben Lerner
While women artists of the early twentieth century were known for depicting interior spaces as places of privacy and domestic quietude, Margaux Williamson's interiors reveal spaces of creativity, subjectivity, and a kind of anarchic experimentation. One of Canada's leading painters, Williamson renders the 'great indoors' with a lush touch, drawing us into her world.
Catalog for I Could See Everything exhibition, located at a made up museum, curated by Ann Marie Peña
Softcover, 164 color pages, 11x9 inches
Coach House Books, 2014
Edited by Alana Wilcox; text by Ann Marie Peña, Chris Kraus, Leanne Shapton, Mark Grief & David Balzer
“In a world where the image of a painting on a computer screen can be as real as a painting hanging in a gallery, I Could See Everything, the breakthrough body of work by acclaimed painter, filmmaker and social artist Margaux Williamson, appears here both as a strange vision and one that feels so familiar and inevitable.
This suite of forty-six paintings, selected and curated by the Road at the Top of the World Museum for their tenth anniversary, shares the gallery’s preoccupation with, as curator Ann Marie Peña says, darkness as both geographical condition and conceptual idea.
In collecting all forty-six works alongside essays by David Balzer, Mark Greif, Chris Kraus and Leanne Shapton and an introduction by the curator, this catalogue transcends the boundary between the authentic and the imaginary, and collapses the distinction between art show, museum catalogue and document of something astonishing that also never was.”