The Sewing Series is a group of woodcuts and paintings based on sewing machines and women sewing. The woodcuts are printed on sewing instruction sheets and the paintings incorporate pattern tissue. Some of the images use embroidery and fabric to add colorful detail. This series examines the complicated history of the sewing machine as a liberator and oppressor of women and was created after decades working in the home sewing industry.
Americanaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock’n’Roll, University of Illinois Press 2021. Features 27 portraits hand stitched from well worn denim remnants, repurposed muslin, rescued bandanas, felt appliqué and embroidery floss to evoke the homespun spirit of the music.
Crossroads: How The Blues Shaped Rock’n’Roll (and Rock Saved the Blues), Northeastern University Press 2013. Features 19 digital portraits using scanned fabrics and textures collected over the years exploring the integration of opposites; acoustic & electric, old & young, black & white.
The Cowgirl Way; Hats Off To America’s Women of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books 2010. Features 2 hand-colored woodcuts expressing the determined independence of women.
Wild Blue (formerly Cellar in the Sky) 1998 commission to create 11 hand-colored woodcuts celebrating the joy of life for the newly renovated restaurant in the Windows on the World complex.
Margie Greve’s woodcut portraits have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone’s trio of books: Love, Life and Rock.
Margie is a graduate of Skidmore College and studied printmaking at The Art Student’s League and The School of Visual Arts, as well as patternmaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She exhibits her work in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
contact: margiegreve@rcn.com instagram: margiegreve