Margie Labadie

John Antoine Labadie12 February presentation in support of the

UNCP Faculty Exhibition at Sandhills Community College February & March 2015

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Margie Labadie: Artist StatementMargie Labadie’s personal, expressive art represents a seamless flow of digital and traditional techniques that include photography, drawing, and printmaking. She exhibits her artwork, presents workshops and lectures internationally and nationally on digital fine art, techniques and creativity. Drawing on her personal life in both Eastern and Western cultures, Margie’s complex visual representations span metaphorical and mythical depictions of everyday life from Asian metropolises to the rural, Sandhills region of North Carolina.

Margie Labadie’s artwork has been exhibited in over 60 international exhibitions including ones in Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, England, India, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, and Venezuela. Her work was included in a book for “The Peace Project” raising funds for amputees in war torn Sierra Leone. Labadie’s artwork has been exhibited in more than 40 national and regional exhibitions in the United States. She lectures and presents her artwork nationally and internationally, along with her husband-collaborator Dr. John Antoine Labadie. They have exhibited, worked and lectured in universities and at conferences throughout Asia and the United States. In 2009 they received the People’s Choice Award for “Ten Years of Collaborative Digital Arts” at the New Media Consortium Conference in Monterey, CA.

Between 2002 and 2014 Margie Labadie was a visiting lecturer at the University of Ludwigsburg in Germany. She was a visiting artist and lecturer at Lucknow University, University of Kanpur, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and Banasthali Vidaypith University, Jaipur, all in India. She was a visiting artist at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Peitou, and the Taipei American School, both in Taiwan, R.O.C. She was a Fubon International Communication Scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. In the United States she was a visiting artist at Blackhills State University in South Dakota, artist-in-residence at Troy University, in Troy, Alabama, and also artist-inresidence also for the United States National Park Service in Del Rio, Texas.Margie Labadie is currently a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in the Digital Arts area. She is President of “Jumbo Arts International” a 501(c)(3) nonprofitarts organization based in North Carolina, USA.

Margie Labadie received her Masters of Fine Art (MFA) from East Carolina University in Printmaking with an emphasis in digital techniques (2003). She did her undergraduate studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy (1982). In between degrees, she was Vice President of a nationally known printing and publishing company for five years, and for nine years she owned an international travel company, Steppingstone Tours, taking artists into the rain forests of Central and South America. Her websites are JumboArtsInternational.org and SteppingstoneArts.com.

Margie LabadieArtworks from 2007-2015

John Antoine Labadie: Artist Statement

As a former industrial engineer my perspective is deeply colored by mathematics and statistical modeling. As an artist I am traditionally trained in painting, photography and illustration and these skills are bought to bear on the subjects that most engage me ay any given moment. The subjects of my artwork vary quite widely but are primarily based on my research into how science defines our world and changes how we live.

My art-making processes most often involve various modes of digital studio practice that is seamlessly blended into or combined with traditional media. In making artwork I often begin with scans of my drawings or with found objects -- either electronic or physical. After that the processes evolve as needed to take works into a variety of forms: installations, online works, animations, time-based works, large format prints, and mixed media works. Sharply focused imagery and experimentation with technical processes are constant factors in my work.

John Antoine LabadieArtworks from 2013-2015

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