From Amuse: Maggie Dunlap is a multidisciplinary artist known for her dark creations, like her The Alphabet of Serial Killers (2015) series of drawings in graphite and pen on ink and paper. Images of a ball-gag, a gimp mask and a clothespin are intricately embroidered on wooden embroidery hoops, otherwise known as Instruments of Discipline: Series I (2015).
But Maggie’s artistic allure comes with her paradoxical use of softcore and industrial imagery—think Marilyn Manson and the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
At 20, she’s still a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She’s young, especially in light of her artistic output, but she’s trying to swerve the ageism and youth fetishism that she receives. Not in a rush to be an ‘art star,’ she spends the rest of her time in Miami where her parents live.
Amuse talked to Maggie ahead of her upcoming group show LIFEFORCE at Untitled Space in Tribeca…” (continue reading)