Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present our first solo exhibition with artist Margeaux Walter. Born in Seattle and currently living in NY, her work developed in part from her experiences living in New York as she was able to draw inspiration from the creative energy, as well as the claustrophobia of the city.

The work featured in Horizon explores the impact that technological innovations have on human interactions. Walter draws from her experience growing up during the digital revolution and witnessing first hand society's transformation from computer illiteracy to device dependency.

Walter employs digital strategies to explore concerns of social reliance on technology and its threat of replacing many analogue skills. Walter observes, "This is happening without our awareness and it is camouflaging itself as natural evolution." She addresses fears that as we modify our lives and routines in order to keep up with technological innovations, our freedom and ability to engage the world as unique individuals is diminishing.

Walter uses a variety of media including digital images and lenticulars in two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms. She is drawn to photography and digital media because it allows her to combine reality with fantasy. Using herself as a model, Walter is able to experience these fantasies and fears first hand. She draws from observations of technology in use - ipods on subways, cafes filled with solitary people connected to their laptops, even couples walking together as a pair, yet seeming to exist mentally in two different cell phone worlds. In her work Walter creates seemingly flawless, hyper-real images that explore the relationships between technology and isolation, loneliness, and, monotony.

For more information, please contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652-5855.