What else is there to say about Margaret Kilgallen?Margaret Kilgallen has become a major artist. Her work is highly influential, she’s one of the leading lights of the art movement that’s been dubbed “Beautiful Losers” She was highly prolific, and she died from breast cancer at the age of 33. In a short amount of time, she left behind an incredible body of work. Her work echoed and fused elements of folk art, contemporary urban life, sign painting, and a lost era of Americana. She managed to combine these elements into something entirely new. The best documentation of her work is an exhibition catalogue titled, “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” Most of the 200 + page book contains color reproductions of her work, as well as a few short essays, and an informative interview. The book itself is a work of art; seeing the book design and cloth binding, you know it’s something special. Looking at this book you can see her legacy; yet somehow feel a certain sadness knowing that such a creative person’s life was cut too short, and be left wondering what amazing work she would have gone on to make.
We the Motmots, love Margaret Kilgallen’s work and we wanted to carry this book in our shop for ages. I went to the Redcat Gallery and purchased them myself, and I actually lugged these copies over from Los Angeles, stashed in my suitcase. Just so we could hustle you a few copies at the entirely great price of € 35,- I believe we are one a very small number of shops in Europe to carry this book. Just so you know.

• posted July 11th, 2009 by steve |
• categories: English
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