Many of my artworks are entitled Synchronicity of Color, taking its name from Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, or meaningful coincidences. Synchronistic events reveal an underlying pattern, a conceptual framework, like a quilt. My art unites color; a metaphor that celebrates and honors our multicultural/multidimensional world. As the niece of lauded Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas, I use color as a visual clue to my own multi-racial, multi-cultural heritage. — Margo Sawyer
Color, light, and geometry have long been Margo Sawyer’s chosen vocabulary, and she has used them to explore a wonderful range of physical and psychological possibilities. Synchronicity of Color – Blue and Green pairs two colors using the modern materials of automotive paint and steel in a painting-sculpture that pushes the reflective quality of the paint into three dimensions. Through Sawyer’s work, color stretches out into its surroundings to become a meditative spatial event. In 2015, Sawyer was appointed the Texas State Three-Dimensional Visual Artist Laureate, and she has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Japan Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, and two Fulbright Research Awards—a Senior Research Fellowship to Japan and to India. Sawyer’s work has been exhibited both nationally in New York, Los Angeles, New Haven, Houston, Dallas, and Austin and internationally in the United Kingdom, Italy, India, Japan, and recently, the United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo.