In Sickness and in Health
Margaret Lazzari. Photo Margaret Lazzari doesn’t simply paint isolated subjects, but over several years will delve into different themes, the result being that her oeuvre consists of numerous significant portfolios. There’s the Re-Inventions of Beauty series, the Floating series, the Cancer series, and the Wild Biology series. Each one seems to have accompanied or been precipitated by a life-changing moment in which the artist, now 56, found herself. “My work is about big things,” she acknowledges. “A lot of artwork today is purposely kind of distant, ironic comments on our world situation, but I think I’m different from that. I think that the work’s not ironic, it’s not distant; it’s very personal. “I never saw it in the past as being essentially about me, but I guess it’s been the record of what’s consumed me at major points of my life. On some level the personal is not very sharable, it doesn’t really reach out, but on a deep level of birth and sickness and growth and season and cycles and big meanings, the deeply personal is of course the same for every single one of us.” “Julia Dreaming the Universe,” by Margaret Lazzari Beauty is as beauty does Margaret Lazzari, who has been…
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