Contact Information
Studio & Gallery
Wilmington, DE
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.
Gallery Representation
Slow Galerie, Paris, France
Drawing
Archived Works
Artist's Biography
Marilyn MacGregor is a fine artist, illustrator, and graphic designer with an extensive record of exhibitions and a popular series of colorful prints and cards. She uses her many sketchbooks from life and travel in the US and in Europe to create much of her illustration and graphic design work, including her Philadelphia series, her International Series of travel scenes, and colorful flowers, animals and birds. She exhibits her work in Europe and the US, and offers work for purchase on her website and other quality sites. She lives and works in Wilmington DE USA and in a small town in the Loire Valley, France.
Artist's Statement
My work begins and ends with drawing, no matter the medium, surface or technique. For me drawing a kind of dance in which each step opens up new possibilities and allows the ordinary to be seen in a new way. I use line and color in a free, fresh, loose style honed by many years of practice and observation. My surface of choice is paper, for original works and fine quality art prints. I work in series, in order to continue and develop ideas and visual explorations.
Original series include Ink Birds, Mad Cats, Pots, Bottles and Jars (Still Life), and two on-going series of urban/landscape scenes created from my sketchbook drawings.
Philadelphia: Famous Sites and Favorite Places is a tribute to my adopted City of Philadelphia. Each scene begins with an on-site drawing done with pen in my sketchbook. The choice of sites is a combination of appeal to my eye and a broader interest in places that are meaningful to and beloved of Philadelphians.
My International Series, from the hundreds of travel sketchbooks I’ve accumulated over a life of living and traveling in interesting places, is created with the same technique: a base of spontaneous, on-site line drawing on paper with colorful digital painting. “International’ means anything and everything beyond Philadelphia, including London, Paris, and New York City.
The loose, sketchy, spontaneous freedom of my line is the result of many years of drawing life as I find it around me, especially in my travels and in various places where I’ve lived, including Paris, California and New York. For the Philadelphia scenes and for my International Series featuring cities and places around the world I scan drawings done on site in my sketchbooks and compose the final work with digital painting, allowing the line to remain central and free within a colorful graphic design.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2022
Domaine de Rocheville, Parnay, France
2021
Critters, Artless Bastard Gallery, De Pere, WI
2014 - 2018
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Marilyn MacGregor, Urban Jungle, Philadelphia, PA
Marilyn MacGregor: Lines and Places, Old City Publishing, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Bluestone Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2015
East Passyunk Neighborhood Art Show, Philadelphia, PA
2014
The Art of the Flower, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
East Passyunk Neighborhood Art Show, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Paperworks Invitational, Trenton Art Museum, Trenton, NJ
2011 – 2012
The Decorated Book, The Philadelphia Athenaeum, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Featured Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Book, Paper, Scissors, Philadelphia Center for the Book, Free Library, Philadelphia, PA
2nd Floor Front Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Small Oils Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Something French Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
LOVE B Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational
Works on Paper, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Book, Paper, Scissors, Philadelphia Center for the Book, Free Library, Philadelphia, PA
837 League Street Group Show, Philadelphia, PA
Insect Invitational, B Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Art of the Flower, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Works on Paper 2010, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Previous
Crossing the Line, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Keter Associates, Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Artisans Open Studios, Berkeley, CA
Alvarado Artists at the Rockridge Library, Oakland, CA
Pro Arts Open Studios
Artists/Friends – Dialogues, City College of San Francisco, CA
Alvarado Artists at Giorgio Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Strong Ties, Diverse Connections, Downtown Art Center, San Rafael, CA
Alvarado Artists Founding Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Bentley School, Lafayette, CA
Banaker Gallery, San Francisco CA
Fine Woodworking, Sausalito, CA
Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
Fairfax Public Library, Fairfax, CA
Saint John the Divine, New York, NY
Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY
Saint Edwards School, Oxford, England
The Leys School, Cambridge, England
New Art Forms, Banaker Gallery at the Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Faculty Exhibition, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
Year of the American Craft, Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Inspired by Nature, California Contemporary Crafts Council, Corte Madera, CA
Animals and Us, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
In the Landscape, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
California Design, Baulines Craft Guild, San Francisco, CA
Small Works California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Artists from the Erika Meyerovich Gallery, Governor’s Office, San Francisco, CA
The Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Publications
MacGregor, Marilyn, “Heroic Drawing” INDA 6, Manifest Press, 2012
MacGregor, Marilyn, “The Wonder of Winterthur,” Philadelphia Style Magazine, October 10, 2011
MacGregor, Marilyn, “Drawing as Dance” INDA 4, Manifest Press, 2012
MacGregor, Marilyn, “Anne Andrée Carron: The Tree of Life,” Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August 2004
MacGregor, Marilyn, “The Art of Mysteries” Mystery Readers’ Journal, Volume 21, No. 1, Spring 2005
Children’s Literature
Fitzgerald, Rick and Marilyn MacGregor (Illustrator), Helen and the Great Quiet, Morrow Junior Books, 1989
MacGregor, Marilyn, On Top, Morrow Junior Books, 1988
MacGregor, Marilyn, Helen the Hungry Bear, Four Winds Press, 1987
Noel and His Friends, TBW Books
MacGregor, Marilyn, Baby Takes a Trip, Four Winds Press, 1985
MacGregor, Marilyn, Benny Brown Bear’s Circus, Scholastic, 1983
Golden Gelman, Rita, Susan Kovacs Buxbaum, and Marilyn MacGregor, Boats That Float, Franklin Watts, 1981
Proudfoot, Alice-Boyd and Marilyn MacGregor (Illustrator), The Animals go to the Supermarket, Crane Russak, 1977
Christian, Hans and Marilyn MacGregor, Little Angel Books: The Jumping Contest, Saint Rigobert’s Dinner, The Disappointed Bear, The Angelica Press, 1975
Professional Experience
2012 – present
Design/Illustration, MacGregor-Art.com
Custom Art Tours, ArtSmartTravel.com
2009 – present
Broad Street Review, Philadelphia, PA
Contributor
2000 – 2013
Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Professor
2003 - 2008
Bentley School, Lafayette, CA
Teacher, Chair of Visual Arts
1995 - 2002
Branson School, Lafayette, CA
Teacher
1988 - 1995
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
Instructor
1975 - 1988
Designer and Illustrator, New York, NY
1975 - 1978
The Angelica Press, Brooklyn, NY
Founder an Publisher
Education
Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
Master of Arts in Childrens’ Literature
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Recent Artist Member Mentions on InLiquid
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POST: Philadelphia Open Studio Tours 2021 – South
POST Online: April 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021. 6-8pm each evening. CFEVA IS THRILLED TO PRESENT POST ONLINE, TO YOU, … See Full Post
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Marilyn MacGregor Early Holiday Special
Requests for Marilyn MacGregor‘s Philly cards come in early, so she has them ready in October. This year will certainly be one to reach out with cheer and good spirits to friends and family near and far. A bright colorful card is truly a gift at any time, but never more so than now! Find her different designs and order your cards here.
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Check out Marilyn MacGregor’s Sketches
InLiquid Artist Marilyn MacGregor is creating a lot of art and posting sketches from her daily sketch diary on her … See Full Post
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Members in Artblog’s “Artists in the Time of Coronavirus”
Artblog has created an open online community project: “Artists in the Time of Coronavirus.” Over the (so far) 26 parts, many InLiquid member artists have been included! See the full list below, and stay tuned for more updates as Artblog keeps adding new parts.
Part 1 – Jacqueline Unanue
Part 2 – Linda Dubin Garfield
Part 4 – Carole Loeffler
Part 5 – Constance McBride
Part 6 – Terri Fridkin
Part 7 – Ellen Rosenholtz
Part 8 – Krista Dedrick Lai
Part 10 – Lee Muslin
Part 11 – Sandi Neiman Lovitz
Part 12 – Phyllis Anderson
Part 13 – Pia De Girolamo, Tyler Kline, Dolores Poacelli, Florence Weisz
Part 15 – Jen McCleary, Rebecca Schultz
Part 16 – Linnie Greenberg, Lauren Rinaldi
Part 19 – Rebecca Jacob
Part 20 – Gerri Spilka, Rosalind Bloom
Part 24 – Karen Hunter-McLaughlin, Laura Storck
Part 25 – Alla Reznik
Part 26 – Su Knoll Horty
Part 27 – Andrew Chalfen
Part 28 – Ruth Miller
Part 31 – Pamela Tudor, Agathe Bouton
Part 37 – Paula Cahill
Part 38 – Constance Culpepper, Alan Lankin
Part 40 – Kirby Fredendall, Paula Mandel
Part 41 – Marilyn MacGregor
Part 43 – Sandra Benhaim
Part 44 – Patricia Ingersoll
Part 45 – Erica Harney
Part 50 – Francesca Costanzo
Part 52 – Mary Powers Holt
Part 53 – Jennifer Baker
Part 55 – Ellen Benson
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POST: Philadelphia Open Studio Tours 2019 – South Philly
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, is the largest tour of artist studios … See Full Post
