Megan Magill: Instructions for Dancing

On View: September 8–October 3, 2026
Reception: Saturday, September 12, 1–3 pm

I paint people. People in love. People in conflict. People somewhere in between.

I start with an image—collected or found. This part of the process is reassuring to me.

I am not alone in this.
Someone was here before.

From there, it becomes a conversation between me and the painting. Nothing is prescribed. The painting ebbs and flows, and we talk to each other until I feel it is saying what I want it to say. About love, about loss, and all things in between.

—Megan Magill

Instructions for Dancing

2026, oil and oil stick on panel, 20×16”

Red Is For Remember

2026, oil and oil stick on panel, 24×24”

Cat's Cradle

2026, oil and oil stick on panel, 24×20”

Ruffles and Fairy Lights

2026, oil and oil stick on panel, 20×24”

Tube Socks

2026, oil and oil stick on panel, 20×16”

I Held My Breath, You Said Something

2026, oil and oil stick on panel, 40×30”

Megan Magill

Megan Magill’s studio practice embraces drawing, printmaking, and photography as stepping stones and conspirators to her whimsical paintings. Through a process that involves found imagery, improvised methods, and a reliance on chance, her work pays homage to all that is strange and wonderful in our lives. Her work has been profiled at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, in a publication of Create! magazine at Art Basel, and on Artsy. She received her Master’s from Northwestern University and her MFA from Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. Magill has shown throughout the US and works out of her studio in Brooksville, Maine.