Margaret Zox Brown

Garbage Glory

Oil on canvas

About the artist

Margaret Zox Brown

Margaret Zox Brown's work provides connection. Her paintings are of authentic feelings and intimate realities that she has experienced firsthand. Having lived through some bleak times, she found that her painting was what got her through. During her most challenging times of living in New York as a single mother, she chose to paint the beauty she saw in her life struggles. Today she is always looking towards the positive, making work that highlights the beauty of everyday life. Her paintings are often large-scale, symbolic of the abundance of life. Being a lifelong New Yorker, Brown's color language and quality of form are influenced by the city's exceptional creative energy. And because she has created her art coming from a place of genuine appreciation for the everyday, through representational painting Brown makes it so anyone can identify with it.

Brown lives in New York City's Greenwich Village and works in her Garment District studio. She attended the Chapin School in New York City and Trinity College in Hartford, CT where she studied Psychology. For nearly three decades, she perfected her painting technique in weekly studio sessions at the 92nd Street Y. Brown's paintings are in private collections worldwide, as well as public spaces including Danny Meyer’s restaurant, Maialino and the lobby of the commercial building 462/470 7th Avenue, NYC among others. The artist has been featured in notable interviews, both on television and in print with WNBC, White Hot Magazine, Art of the Times, Creativ Magazine, and more.