Nature, space, and light.

AuthorBianco, Adriana
Position!Ojo! - Margot S. Neuhaus

THE VISUAL ART of Margot S. Neuhaus shows a consistent focus on reflection and a subtle dialogue with the materials. Also consistent is her love of nature, the spiritual thread that joins the various phases of her work. Neuhaus studied art in Brazil and psychology at the University of Chicago. Both disciplines have given her a solid base for the artistic expression of thought and aesthetic.

Neuhaus began her career in the late 1980s and early 1990s with wood and stone sculptures exhibited in Washington at the World Bank and the Art Museum of the Americas. These pieces show the central themes of her vision: a concern for nature and the minimal use of resources.

In Serie de papel (1998-2007), she experimented with the brevity of the brushstroke and the lightness of the medium in an introspective exercise with a minimalist and conceptual language. In 2008, she began exploring ways to find a place for minimalist landscape art in digital photography.

Neuhaus has won a number of awards and exhibited her works in the United States and Europe. Her art is now part of private collections and in museums. She is currently living in Washington, DC, working on her exhibitions, and leading art workshops for children and their family members at the National Institutes of Health.

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Her recent exhibition, Luminous Silence, at the Art Museum of the Americas shows large, semi-abstract photographs that bear witness to the presence of light, space, and time, all moving in a delicate balance inside the image.

Because of her constant preoccupation with harmony, Neuhaus could be considered a classical artist in search of Apollonian order and reason. But in reality, she listens to the silent structures of nature, the orderly scaffolding of ecology, and the rhythm of natural cycles. Her Mexican origin leads us to think of pre-hispanic cosmogonies and pantheistic ceremonies where human beings merge with geography.

"When I began to take photos," the artist confesses, "I was...

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