Submit your artwork at www.toyartpdx.org
Toy art can be anything relating to toys: bicycles, dolls, photos, sculpture, collage, and more!!!

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I am showing 4 pieces in the Cycle Seen Art Show, which is an annual art show that shows tribute to Portland Bike Culture.
Cup and Saucer Cafe and Gallery, 3000 NE Killingsworth street May 28th- June 24th 2008
A Better Cycle, 2324 Se Division St (Features a Ghost Bike exhibit) May 35th- June 30th 2008

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Waypost cafe 3120 N. Williams up through the end of August, enjoy!

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You have reached the homepage of Margarete Beeson. I am an artist based out of New Orleans and inspired by NOLA and other cities I have lived: Phoenix, AZ, Portland, OR, and Black Rock City,NV.

“Art-Life-Works” words of wisdom said by my fellow artists at Thought Crime and Firehouse collectives.

Created in various mediums including acrylics, pen/ink, paint sharpie, collage, sewing,and diorama style sculpture using toys: Toy Art. My artwork is often bold and heavily influenced by the artwork styles of “Dia de Los Muertos”. Visually speaking the themes of childhood, rebirth, community, environmental sustainability, sensuality, and love. My artwork is deeply personal, always touched by my day to day experiences and interactions.

Living a simplified life, focusing on creating art instead of trying to amass material possessions. As well as living as sustainable as I can do not own a car by choice, preferring to bicycle or bus, eating vegetarian local/organic foods. I often salvage objects that others have thrown away to turn them into works of art and finding treasures in free boxes, thrift stores, SCRAP, The Green Project, and of course the trash dumpsters. I have painted on cabinet doors, glass windows, doors and old furniture as well as reused materials Mardi Gras beads, board game pieces, broken clocks and jewlery, lost keys, toys and so on… Thriving on imperfection, knowing that nothing in the world is perfect. My paintings are often embedded with spontaneous poetry.

I do not like gravy.

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