Margaret Luo
Through her oil paintings, Margaret Luo removes the separation modern society has placed between people and nature. She provokes viewers to reflect on humanity’s roles in nature and its life processes by transporting them into expansive landscapes. Drawing inspiration from the Earth’s resilience and its renewing cycles, Luo creates paintings that bring attention to the details and fractals of nature. The layered brushstrokes capture the random and repeated patterns of the world. In her artwork, Luo reminds viewers that nature reflects, contributes to, and is impacted by humanity’s patterns and processes on all scales of life.
Margaret Luo is a self-taught artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Traditionally trained as a data scientist aimed to improve well-being for people and communities through policy research, Luo turned to oil painting to develop a more emotional and human connection to people and nature.