About Peggy McClure

Artist and photographer Peggy McClure examines the space between the built and natural environments, constructed objects or artifacts imposed on nature, and nature taking back with weather and overgrowth. Her most recent work is inspired by the beginnings of life in nature - seeds, eggs, and spores - in abstract drawings.

She integrates various media in her art, including acrylic paint, oil stick, dry pigment, pieces of her photographs, sometimes found text and repurposed objects. Her digital collages blend layers of her paintings and photographs.

Originally from Pennsylvania, McClure moved to Boston to attend Massachusetts College of Art and Design and remained in the area for many years. Her work has been shown in Pennsylvania and numerous exhibits and galleries in Massachusetts; her collaborations with a Haiku poet have been shown in Japan. She recently returned, and currently resides, in Pennsylvania.

Education

Massachusetts College of Art, Framingham State University (B.A.), and workshops including the Museum School (Tufts University at MFA), Photography Atelier, Radcliffe College (now part of Lesley University).

Solo Shows

2020 Water and Rust, West Galley at ArtSpace Maynard, Maynard MA

2019 Tangled Bank, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA

2017 In a Silent Way, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA

2016 Terrain, Ashland Public Library, Ashland, MA

2014 A Sense of Place, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA

Small Group and Selected Shows

2021 Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2021 Magical, W Gallery at Arts Wayland, Wayland, MA

2021 The Garden Within, Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2020 Anthropause, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA

2014 Annual Associates show, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

2013 Cotton, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA

2011 Danforth Faculty Show, TCAN, Natick, MA

2010 The Elegant Miniature, Gallery 7, Maynard, MA

2009 Two-Person Invitational, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

2005 Process – Influence – Collaboration, Newbury College Art Gallery, Brookline, MA

2004 Photography Atelier, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

2003 New England Photographers ’03, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

2000 Distinguished Artists Invitational Exhibition, Concord Art Museum, MA (also 1996, 1998)

1999 Relationships: Mothers & Daughters, Transit Fine Arts Gallery, Oil City, PA