Margaret Luo
Margaret Luo’s artistic practice centers around developing emotional connections with people and nature to understand the land where we live and what our environment can teach us. Each of her artworks starts with going outdoors to see the details and variations of patterns in nature. She is captivated by places that have dynamic relationships with water, which is constantly shifting with climate change. Luo creates artwork that shares a reflection of the Earth’s resilience and its renewing cycles and highlights 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, she turned to oil painting to develop a more emotional and human connection to people and nature. You can find Margaret Luo working in her studio at Alameda Artworks in San Jose.