Colored Pencil, 2009 (unfinished)
Pastel, 2009
Colored Pencil, 2009 (unfinished)
Colored Pencil, 2009
4.23.2009
12.01.2008
8.10.2008
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Visual Artist
Megan Seiter
Megan Seiter
Visual Artist
Contact Information
Megan Seiter
mjseiter@gmail.com
*Prints and original artworks are available, as well as portraits and commissioned pieces.
Artist Biography
Megan Seiter is an emerging realist artist from Providence, RI. Her current body of work consists of meticulously rendered oil paintings, colored pencil, and pastel drawings of toys and household trinkets, removed from reality and imbued with a sense of nostalgia and emotion. Megan is attracted to the potential beauty and emotive qualities inherent in everyday objects. She derives most of her images from real-life set-ups, referencing photographs for detail information. Megan employs stark compositions in her work, in order to create contextual ambiguity that generates an emotional response from her audience.
Megan's passion for art stemmed from an early age. Her mother, who worked as an independent calligrapher and graphic designer, exposed her to many different fields of art as a child. During her primary education at Providence Country Day School (PCD), Megan discovered a fascination with realism and fine detail. This interest led her to enroll in Rhode Island School of Design's pre-college program as a drawing major, where she vastly improved her technical abilities. During her senior year at PCD, Megan interned at Riverzedge Arts Project in Woonsocket, R.I., a non-profit organization offering paid apprenticeships in the arts to at-risk high school youth. She continued work there during the sumer of 2004 as head of the drawing department, as well as mentor to several of the advanced participants. Though she knew art to be her calling, Megan chose not to attend a visual arts college. Instead, she enrolled at Hobart and William Smith (HWS), a liberal arts college in upstate N.Y., majoring in fine arts. There, she received a well-rounded education in courses such as philosophy, English studies, and Italian, among others. She incorporated this knowledge into her art, gleaning inspiration and conceptual material from her liberal arts classes. After spending a semester in Rome, Italy during her sophomore year, Megan decided to pursue an education more poignantly devoted to visual arts. In the fall of 2006 she transferred to Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Presently, Megan is a senior general fine arts major at MICA. She will graduate in spring 2009, after which she looks to a future as a successful portraitist and gallery artist.
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