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MARGIE CRISP
PO Box 656
Elgin, Texas USA 78621
512-281-5667
Tiliqua2@earthlink.net

 

April 1983 National Geographic


"As an artist, I find myself grounded in reality: the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined. My images are derived from aspects of my life including the irritating and heart rending beauty of a Mockingbird's song at midnight, the heady delight of watching Purple Martins spin in the sky, the quiet mystery of the countryside at night and the daily distractions of home and garden. I strive to contain enough of the particular elements of my experience to make each image unique, but to also hold a hint of the universal."

Artist Margie Crisp was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but got to Texas as soon as she could. She lives in Elgin, a small town east of Austin with her husband (painter and printmaker William B. Montgomery) and a motley crew of pets. When she is not working in her studio (or taking care of animals); she can be found printing at Slugfest Printmaking Workshop in Austin. A nationally exhibited artist, her work can be found in private and public collections including The Austin Museum of Art, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas; The Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, Phoenix Arts Commission Print Collection, Phoenix, Arizona; Instituto des Artes Plasticos, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico; and the Art in Public Places Print Collection, Austin, Texas.

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EDUCATION

  • 1991, Bachelor of Fine Arts with High Honors, The University of Texas at Austin
  • 1984, Associate of Applied Science in Commercial Art and Advertising Design, with High Honors, Southwestern Technical College, Sylva, North Carolina

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007

  • Birds, Kirchman Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
  • Betty MacDonald, Foust, & Margie Crisp, Migration: A Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Away From Home, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2006

  • Kingdom Animalia, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
  • Art Ball X, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria
  • Natural Elements: Margie Crisp, Natasha Downs, Angilee Wilkerson, Kirchman Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
  • People’s Gallery Exhibition 2006, juried exhibition, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas
  • Margie Crisp, Scott & White Smith Gallery, Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Temple, Texas
  • McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery

2005

  • New Works: Margie Crisp, Helen Kwiatkowski, William B. Montgomery, RoseMinn Gallery, Elgin, Texas
  • Margie Crisp, The Good Tern, Galveston, Texas
  • The Print Show 2005, Maryland Federation of Art City Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Party 4Art, invitational, Abilene Arts Alliance, Abilene, Texas
  • Austin City Hall, invitational exhibition
  • McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)

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2004

  • Valley House Gallery 50th Anniversary Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
  • Three Texas Printmakers, RoseMinn Gallery, Elgin, Texas
  • Gardens, Real and Imagined, Austin Museum of Art, Driscoll Villa, Austin, Texas
  • Red Hot Red Dot Invitational, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)

2003

  • Austin Mayor’s Office, Juried Exhibition, Austin, Texas
  • Birds, 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Gallery at Concordia University, Austin, Texas
  • Red Hot Red Dot Invitational, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Gallery in the Garden, Invitational, The Governor’s Mansion, Austin, Texas
  • 2003 North American Print Biennial, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
  • McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)

2002

  • People, Places & Things, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
  • American Landscapes 2002, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland
  • Hand-pulled: The Contemporary Print, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
  • Margie Crisp & Dianne Grammer, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • The Naked Truth: Works on Paper, The Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
  • Gallery in the Garden, Invitational, The Governor’s Mansion, Austin, Texas
  • 5 x 7 x X, TFAA, Traveling exhibit: The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas; Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
  • The Naked Truth: Works on Paper, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)

2001

  • 28th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
  • Red Hot Red Dot Invitational, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • TexasXpress, Invitational Print Trade Portfolio, University of Texas at Austin
  • New Prints From Texas, Women & their Work, Austin, Texas
  • Art Ball V, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
  • Earth, Wind, Water, Sky, The Texas Landscape: Six Women Artists, Touring exhibition (organized by Margie Crisp and Dianne Grammer), The San Angelo Museum, San Angelo, Texas
  • 2001 Summer Group Exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas

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2000

  • Juror’s Choice, The 2000 Members’ Show, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas
  • 23rd National Print Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
  • Red Hot Red Dot Invitational, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Counterpoint 2000, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas
  • Significant Other: William Montgomery & Margie Crisp, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • The Texas Landscape: Six Women Artists, Traveling exhibition (organized by Margie Crisp and Dianne Grammer):
    • The Art Center, Waco, Texas
    • The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
    • Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Multiple Originals V, Women Printmakers of Austin, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas

1999

  • Juror’s Choice, The 1999 Members’ Show, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas
  • 26th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
  • Art on Paper 1999, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland
  • Common Grounds: Texas Landscapes, (organized by Margie Crisp and Dianne Grammer), Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
  • Multiple Impressions: The Austin Printmaking Community, ACA Gallery, Austin
  • Impressed: Regional Printmakers Invitational, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas
  • Margie Crisp, solo exhibition, McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland, Texas
  • McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
  • Margie Crisp & Pat Falconer, Local Color Gallery, College Station, Texas
  • The Bug Show, Concordia Lutheran College, Austin, Texas
  • MultipleOriginals IV, Women Printmakers of Austin, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas

1998

  • Minnesota National Print Biennial, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • National Works on Paper, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
  • A Walk Through English Gardens, 1998 Beaux Arts Ball Benefit, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
  • Stop and Smell the Ink: The Wildflower Portfolio and New Works by Women Printmakers of Austin, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas
  • Horace Cardwell Competition, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas
  • Refreshingly Unfamiliar, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Working Under Pressure, Women Printmakers of Austin, Laughing at the Sun, Austin
  • 22nd National Print Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
  • From Dawn To Dusk, Landscapes in Pastel and Charcoal by Four Central Texas Artists, Glenn Whitehead, Will Klemm and Margie Crisp, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
  • Art School Faculty Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
  • DISH!, Invitational Exhibit, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas

1997

  • Margie Crisp & Dianne Grammer, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • New Lines, Women Printmakers of Austin, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas
  • Bestiary Show, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas
  • ArtView '97, The Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas
  • Horace Cardwell Competition, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas
  • Impression/Expression, East Texas Community College, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
  • Natural Wonders, Valley House Gallery Inc., Dallas, Texas
  • Book Value, Contemporary Artists' Books, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop, Austin, Texas
  • Images from Women Printmakers of Austin, Concordia University, Austin, Texas
  • Contemporary Views: Images of Land and Nature, Dianne Grammer, Margie Crisp, Stacy Erickson, and Gordon Fowler, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas

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1996

  • Southwest '96, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Plate Marks, San Marcos Fine Arts Center, San Marcos, Texas
  • Multiple Originals, Women Printmakers of Austin - Alphabet Project, DAC, Austin, Texas
  • Counterpoint 1996, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas
  • In the Garden: Katherine Brimberry & Margie Crisp, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas
  • Images of Nature V, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
  • Something in the Water, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Holiday Impressions, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas

1995

  • Margie Crisp, Prints, Drawings & Paintings, 1010 Gallery, Bastrop, Texas
  • Third Biennial Gulf of Mexico Symposium Juried Art Show, Honorable Mention, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Art @ Large : Billboard Art Competition, One of three winners, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas
  • Fourth Annual Summer Landscape Exhibition, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Counterpoint 1995, Edd R. Turner Memorial Award, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas
  • Drawing A-Z, Dougherty Art Center, Austin, Texas

1994

  • Margie Crisp, Drawings & Monotypes, Hyde Park Bar & Grill, Austin, Texas
  • Drawings & Monotypes, Upper Crust Bakery, Austin, Texas
  • One Person Exhibition, Lovegene Gallery, Marathon, Texas
  • Dianne Grammer & Margie Crisp, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
  • Offerings, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas

1992

  • Strike Editions, Monoprints-1992, Galeria Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas

1991

  • Flatbed Press Christmas Show, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas

1989

  • Intimate Images: Small Works on Paper, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas

EXHIBITION JUROR & CURATOR

2002

  • The Naked Truth: Works on Paper, (organizer and curator) The Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
  • The Naked Truth: Works on Paper, (organizer and curator) Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas

2001

  • Earth, Wind, Water, Sky, The Texas Landscape: Six Women Artists, Touring exhibition (with Dianne Grammer), The San Angelo Museum, San Angelo, Texas

2000

  • The Texas Landscape: Six Women Artists, Traveling exhibition (organized by Margie Crisp and Dianne Grammer):
    • The Art Center, Waco, Texas
    • The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
    • Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas

1999

  • Common Grounds: Texas Landscapes, (with Dianne Grammer), Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas

1997

  • Contemporary Views: Images of Land and Nature, (with Dianne Grammer) Dianne Grammer, Margie Crisp, Stacy Erickson, and Gordon Fowler, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas

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HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Serie Print Project, Coronado Studios, Austin, Texas, 2002
  • Best Gallery Show, 2002, Dianne Grammer & Margie Crisp, The Austin Critics Table
  • Best Gallery Show, 2001, Nomination, Texas Landscapes: Six Women Artists, The Austin Critics Table
  • Best Female Artist, 2001, Nomination, The Austin Critics Table
  • 23rd National Print Biennial, Juror’s Honorable Mention, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut, 2000
  • WACOWS, The Art Center of Waco, winner of two design sponsorships for decoration of fiberglas cows, 2000
  • Pearls Before Swine, Jurors' Recognition, Elgin, Texas, 2000
  • Third Biennial Gulf of Mexico Symposium Juried Art Show, Honorable Mention, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1995
  • Art @ Large : Billboard Art Competition, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas, 1995
  • Counterpoint 1995, Edd R. Turner Memorial Award, Ingram, Texas
  • Pearls Before Swine, Jurors' Recognition, Elgin, Texas1995
  • Pearls Before Swine, Jurors' Favorite Pearl (Best of Show), Elgin, Texas 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Guest Speaker, Highland Lakes Master Naturalists, 2007
  • Guest Speaker, Arts Encounters at the Beninis, The Benini Foundation Galleries and Sculpture Ranch, Johnson City, Texas, 2006
  • Keynote Speaker, Writer’s Conference, University of Mary Hardin Baylor, Belton, Texas, 2003
  • Visiting Artist, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 2001
  • Art School of the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Instructor.
  • Women Printmakers of Austin, Chairperson 1998-1999, Co-chair 1997-1998
  • Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas. Printer and skilled assistant for print collaboration.
  • Slugfest Printmaking Workshop, member 1999- present.
  • Bastrop County Audubon Society, Newsletter Editor 2002-2005 (2004 winner of National Newsletter Contest); Secretary 2000-2001
  • Bamberger Ranch Preserve, Board of Directors, 2003-2004

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PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • The Austin Museum of Art
  • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Instituto des Artes Plasticos, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico
  • Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
  • The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
  • Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
  • Art in Public Places, Print Collection, Austin, Texas
  • Phoenix Arts Commission, Print Collection, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Dr. Gilberto Cardenas, Institute for Latino Studies-Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago, Illinois
  • The Amity Foundation, Inc., Woodbridge, Connecticut
  • Mr. and Mrs. T. Berry Brazelton, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Dr. Harry Green & Dr. Kelly Zamudio, Ithaca, New York
  • Carolyn Bullard, Dallas, Texas
  • John Stone, Dallas, Texas
  • Shannon S. Wynne, Dallas, Texas
  • Carol Crosthwaite, Waco, Texas
  • Elizabeth Boeckman, Dallas, Texas
  • Stephen & Judy Alton, Dallas, Texas
  • Elise Murchison, Dallas, Texas
  • Jane D. Albritton, Fort Collins, Colorado
  • Helen Davis, Dallas, Texas
  • Jane Christman Albritton, Dallas, Texas
  • Suzy Banks, Dripping Springs, Texas
  • Mary Margaret Farrabee, Austin, Texas
  • Dr. Mary C. Weiss-Greene, Paris, France
  • J. David Bamberger, Johnson City, Texas
  • Kim Olsen, Waco, Texas
  • Leigh Hantho, Edina, Minnesota
  • Dr. & Mrs. Gordon Schuett, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Suzanne Covington, Austin, Texas
  • Thom Moisi, Ontario, California

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REVIEWS

  • “The Naked Truth: at the Davis Gallery,” Wayne Alan Brenner, Voices of Art Magazine, Vol. 10, 4, 2002
  • “The Naked Truth: Works on Paper,” Wayne Alan Brenner, Austin Chronicle, October 4, 2002
  • “Austin Critics Table Award Winners”Best Gallery Show: Dianne Grammer & Margie Crisp,” Michael Barnes, Life & Arts link, Austin American Statesman, June 4, 2002
  • “Critics Table Makes Room for More Nominees,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, May 16, 2002. Best Gallery Show Nomination, Dianne Grammer & Margie Crisp
  • “Arts Watch: Landscapes so blunt, so intriguing,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, March 7, 2002
  • “Visual Arts Calendar,” Austin Chronicle, February 8, 2002 (photo)
  • “Gallery Watch,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, August 4, 2001
  • “Austin critics expand pool of award nominees” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, May 17, 2001, Best Gallery Show Nomination, Texas Landscapes: Six Women Artists; Best Female Artist Nomination Margie Crisp
  • “RSVP” Quarterly Calendar of Arts Events, Austin American-Statesman, March 4, 2001 (photo)
  • “Celebration of the Land,” Dianne Murray, The San Angelo Standard Times, February 9, 2001
  • “The Best of 2000,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, December 21, 2000. “Texas Landscapes: Six Women Artists”
  • “RSVP” Calendar of Arts Events, Austin American-Statesman, December 17, 2000, (photo)
  • “Texas Landscapes takes its place among year’s best shows,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, December 9, 2000
  • “Gallery Watch: ‘Drawing’ opens doors to worlds both strange and subversive,” Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin American-Statesman, December 2, 2000
  • “Picture perfect, Silvermine Guild Arts Center hosts National Print Biennial,” Chandra Niles Folsom, Hour, Norwalk Connecticut, October 4, 2000
  • “Silvermine Hosts National Print Biennial,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, October 6, 2000
  • “Texas landscapes become couple’s dreamscapes,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, February 21, 2000 (photo)
  • “Romance, Texas Scenery central to two new Grace shows,” Abilene Reporter News, June 25, 2000
  • “On Exhibit,” Abilene Reporter News, June 30, 2000 (photo)
  • “On Exhibit,” Abilene Reporter News, August 25, 2000 (photo)
  • “Landscapes on View,” Tyler Morning Telegraph, July 16, 1999
  • “Homegrown Hodgepodge, Exhibition shows off works from local art instructors,” Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin American-Statesman, December 12, 1998
  • “ ’Unfamiliar’ exhibit a pleasant mix,” Michael Barnes, Austin, American-Statesman, August 22, 1998 (photo)
  • “Exhibitionism: Refreshingly Unfamiliar: Uncommon congruity,” Cari Marshall, Austin Chronicle, August 20, 1998
  • “On Exhibit,” Stephanie Peterson and John Ferguson, @Austin, spring 1998 (photo)
  • “Landscapes, Fine Art Exhibition and Auction,” catalog, Beaux Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, April 25, 1998 (photo)
  • State of the Art: Cardwell event opens to artists across Texas,” Juan Ramos, The Lufkin Daily News, July 31, 1997
  • "Ranking Austin's Visual Artists,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, April 10, 1997
  • "Gallery Watch: Shows explore deliberation, different takes on landscapes,” Madeline Irvine, Austin American-Statesman, February 4, 1997 (photo)
  • "Forecast for the Arts,” Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, September 5, 1996
  • “Southwest ‘96” catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, (photo)
  • "Gallery Watch: ‘In the Garden’ Flatbed Press Gallery,” Madeline Irvine, Austin American-Statesman, August 21, 1996 (photo)
  • “CounterPoint opens Sept. 3 at HCAF,” Kerrville Daily Times, August 20, 1995 (photo)
  • “Over $3600 awarded to CounterPoint artists,” Kerrville Daily Times, October 1, 1995
  • “Virtuoso: Austin Art gets top billing, Winners of Art at Large contest get billboard display,” Mimi McKinney, Austin American-Statesman, March 16, 1995 (photo)

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PUBLICATIONS

  • “Dead Cars and Live Snakes: The Provocative Art of William B. Montgomery,” Margie Crisp, Fauna Magazine, May/June 2001
  • Windhover: Journal of Christian Literature, University of Mary Hardin Baylor, 2003, cover and 7 images.
  • IS THIS FOREVER, OR WHAT?, Naomi Shihib Nye, ed., Greenwillow Books, 2 images
  • The Art School of the Austin Museum of Art, Fall 2002 Catalog, cover
  • The Art School of the Austin Museum of Art, Spring 2001 Catalog, cover
  • The Art School of the Austin Museum of Art, Spring 1999 Catalog, cover
  • Field Guide to the Life and Times of Roger Conant, Roger Conant, 1997, Selva, Book title and dust jacket creator, photo editor and production assistant

COMMISSIONS

  • Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin Spring Prairie, print collage on loan
  • Bamberger Ranch Preserve, Hand colored lino cut
  • Bamberger Ranch Preserve, Chiroptorium, lino cut
  • Stengl “Lost Pines” Biological Station, Hand colored lino cut
  • GreenTracks, Eco-Adventures Company, logo
  • Selva Publishing, logo

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