Megan Broughton
San Francisco, CA
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MessageMegan Broughton (b. 1990 she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco, California). Exhibition highlights include Crocker Kingsley Exhibitions and shows at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Richmond Art Center. Her work has been awarded by Leah Ollman (Los Angeles Times, Art in America) and juried by Renee Cyla Villasenor (ICA+SF), Michelle Edelman (TINT Gallery), Eleanor Heartney (Art in America, Art Press), Scott Shields (Crocker Art Museum), Dorka Keehn (public art advisor), and Bay Area curators Kevin B. Chen and Carrie Lederer, among others.
Residencies include Can Serrat (Spain), The Arctic Circle Residency (Svalbard), MaréMotrice (Greenland), and In Cahoots (California). She worked in arts education for 13 years, at The CalArts Community Arts Partnership, NOMAD Lab, California State Summer School for the Arts, and The Oxbow School.
She is a 2023/2024 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow in the Emerging Tier. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts from CalArts and makes work about the climate crisis, loss, transition, and materiality.
Statement
My work is informed by onsite studies in the Arctic, whose materiality shapes my processes (experimental etching, representational and abstracted paintings, and obscured drawings). I work with faraway environments crucial to our everyday lives, primarily through the lens of ice, wind, fog, and air currents that inextricably connect life on earth. Themes of resilience and adaptivity emerge as art processes are pushed beyond their exact natures and detailed imagery is obscured or even destroyed. Layers of yupo paper create multidimensional drawings difficult to see through, expressive paintings of underwater icebergs are at first unrecognizable, and copper etching plates are destroyed in acid.
Tactility, exaggerated scale, the Arctic, geopolitics, and my background in arts education influence me greatly; values of patience, discovery, exploration, and play guide my practice. I want to help people understand themselves in relationship with the Arctic and situate themselves within these critically at-risk systems that are changing drastically during our lifetimes. My art's mission is to inspire and motivate intergenerational care, curiosity, and action for the climate.
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