Margie Beth Labadie

A Passion for Color & Culture

Images from 2007 - 2010

About the artist: Margie Beth Labadie

Trained as a traditional printmaker, Margie Beth Labadie’s studio methods now include digital tools. In the last decade her art has become a seamless combination of traditional and computer-based methods filled with the colors and forms of collected images and objects, original photographs and handmade drawings. Final works of art, sometimes printed sometimes projected, are meant to create a dialogue with viewers.

Margie Beth Labadie’s work represents a confluence of artistic perspectives and sophisticated observations drawn from her experiences living and working in Eastern and Western societies. Complex visual representations include metaphoric and mythical depictions of cultures from Asia to the United States: India, Taiwan and the Americas.

Exhibiting nationally and internationally, Margie Beth Labadie develops her artwork using ever-changing combinations of imagery funneled into various themed series. Her work focuses on the relationships between birds and humans, the idealized yet subversive images in advertising, as well as architectural forms defined by culture. Imagery from the “Finding My Voice” series incorporates computer generated medical visualizations of her voice during and after recovery from vocal fold surgery. All of her artworks are highly structured, deliberately built, and meticulously finished.

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“Caged Voice” is exhibited in several forms including accordion-style book. (Without covers.)

“Caged Voice” is also a time-based video.

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Artwork titles listed by series and page:

Title page: Ladies of the Thar Desert (detail)

From the India Series

2 India Train3 India Train (details)4 Ladies of the Thar Desert5 Rakhi Me6 What Do You Do With Your Hands?7 Place Your Bidis

From the Finding My Voice Series

8 Finding My Voice9 Internal Struggle10 Sound Waves Crashing on a Silent Shore11 Frequency12 Finding AHHHH13 Hearing Now (with John Antoine Labadie)14 Caged Voice (detail, left V3)15 Caged Voice (detail, rightV3)

From the 50 Of Series

16 50 of Something17 50 of Something Black18 50 of Something Else (detail)

From the Architecture Series

19 Italian Architecture (detail)

From the Life, Death and Birds Series

20 DiNO Letters21 Transit Invisible22 Life, Death and Birds23 Index of images24 Death & Other Things (detail)

Closing: Life, Death and Birds (detail), copyright and URL.

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Life, Death and Birds (detail)

Copyright 2010 by Margie Labadie and Steppingstone Arts www.SteppingstoneArts.com