email: meganbiddle77@gmail.com
statement: I grew up in the Hudson Valley in New York State, in a poured concrete house built by my grandfather. As a third-generation artist, I was shaped by a home filled with art, relics and curiosities. Influenced by my mother and grandmother who were both sculptors working in clay, plaster, metal and stone, I gravitated toward glass. Spending time in my mother's ceramic studio as a young person ignited my enduring passion for materials.
I make sculpture and works on paper. My process includes moldmaking and printmaking, both of which rely on one form acting as a guide or container for its opposite. Negative space is not empty; it holds the information needed to recreate the positive form.
I work with glass, rock, and clay- materials with natural origins and ancient histories. Over vast geological time, matter crystallizes, preserving traces of life and becomes a form of storytelling. Through processes of heating, compression, and erosion, I transform these materials into forms that echo relics, artifacts, and fossils, shaped by my own lived experience. Sometimes enduring, sometimes transient, the images and objects become records for my experiences and thoughts.
I look for moments when my hand can step back and the material adds its own language- a crack, a sag, a wrinkle, a collapse under the weight of gravity. I’m interested in how these physical changes relate to the body. When a prescribed outcome gives way to a new area of discovery, I consider it an act of transcendence. These moments sustain my curiosity and keep my practice in a continual state of exploration.
bio: Megan Biddle is a sculptor with a printmaking and drawing practice. Through a blend of traditional and experimental techniques, her practice transitions fluidly between two and three dimensions, as drawings inspire sculptures that, in turn, evolve into prints. This generative process allows her to move between the immediacy of pencil on paper and the precise, measured steps of casting glass. She creates work that embodies phenomena of the natural world, measures of time, and the cycles of life and death.
She has attended residencies at Macdowell, The Jentel Foundation, The Creative Glass Center of America, Sculpture Space, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Pilchuck Glass School, Northlands Creative Glass in Scotland, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Mass MOCA. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Islip Art Museum and the Everson Museum of Art in New York; the Philadelphia Art Alliance in Philadelphia, PA.; Shau Fenster and NationalMuseum in Berlin, Old Suko School (Kyu-Suko-Do) in Iga Japan and La Nao Galeria in Mexico City. In 2024 she received the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts and her work has been acquired into the American Embassy’s permanent collection in Riga, Latvia. She was a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid from 2016 to 2023, during which she served as Co-Director for a significant portion of that time. She has taught workshops at The Fine Arts Work Center, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School, Urban Glass, Oxbow School of Art. She teaches in the the glass program at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia where she lives.
Image credit: Audi Culver