Artist-in-Residence
Meg Hitchcock
Charleston, SC | Fall 2022
We were thrilled to feature painter and text-based artist, Meg Hitchcock, as FSA’s Charleston Artist-in-Residence, Fall 2022. Her work with sacred writings is an expression of her lifelong interest in religion, literature, and psychology.
I fell in love with sacred texts in my early thirties [… ] I read many holy books, from the Bhagavad Gita to the Koran to the numerous sutras of Buddhism. Over the years the writings began to lose their distinctive voices, and I realized that they were describing the same experience. Indeed, the varieties of religious expression are based on their cultural differences, but spirituality is a shared experience of the heart […] In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing sacred texts, I found a way to express my deep reverence for the word of God.
About the Artist:
Hitchcock received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and studied classical painting in Florence, Italy. She has shown nationally and internationally with her work included in exhibitions at MASS MoCA, Currier Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, CODA Museum (Netherlands), Virginia MOCA, and Hudson Valley MOCA.
Meg Hitchcock, "Illuminations in Sacred Texts," 2022. Produced by Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts.
Meg Hitchcock Residency; Charleston, SC, 2022.
Meg Hitchcock Residency; Charleston, SC, 2022.
Meg Hitchcock Residency; Charleston, SC, 2022.
Meg Hitchcock, “Christ Has No Body But Yours (poem by St. Teresa of Avila),” 2012. Letters cut from the Koran.
