Margaret Kilgallen
"I like things that are handmade and I like to see people's hand in the world, anywhere in the world; it doesn't matter to me where it is. And in my own work, I do everything by hand. I don't project or use anything mechanical, because even though I do spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work and my hand, my hand will always be imperfect because it's human. And I think it's the part that's off that's interesting, that even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is." (http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/kilgallen/clip1.html)Types of art:
hand-painted signs
american folk art
mural painting
formal painting
Margaret was born in Washington in 1967.
She gained a BA in printmaking from Colorado college in 1989.
Margaret Kilgallen got her roots in printmaking and signs through her work as a librarian and a bookbinder.
She was in love with things that showed the "evidence of the human hand", such as painting on walls and making crafts.
Margaret died in 2001 in SF where she lived with her husband.
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