Megan Watters Works

Megan Watters

Megan Watters Works brings together paintings and works on paper rooted in tenderness, vulnerability, and the complicated interior landscape of everyday life. Moving between portraiture, domestic scenes, surreal imagery, and moments of abstraction, Watters uses painting as a way of processing lived experience and giving form to emotions that are often difficult to articulate.

Throughout the exhibition, bodies and familiar objects become carriers of psychological weight. Hands reach, hold, prepare, and protect. Figures appear submerged in thought or surrounded by exaggerated color, plants, food, pattern, and fragments of domestic life. In works addressing motherhood, sexuality, anxiety, and self-perception, ordinary experiences drift into something stranger and more dreamlike.

That transformation is central to Watters's visual language. Her saturated blues, pinks, oranges, greens, and violets resist naturalism, allowing emotional states to determine the atmosphere of an image. At times playful and humorous, at others uneasy or deeply introspective, the paintings occupy the unstable territory between comfort and apprehension.

The exhibition also reflects a period of transition in Watters's life. After a decade immersed in New York's creative community, she returned to her hometown of Atlanta while establishing a new chapter in both her artistic practice and personal life. Her broader experience as a scenic artist and fabricator informs an instinctive approach to materials and making, while these paintings turn that creative energy inward toward memory, identity, and personal experience.

Megan Watters Works embraces sentiment rather than distancing itself from it. The exhibition makes room for uncertainty, affection, fear, humor, desire, and change without insisting that those feelings resolve neatly. In a culture—and an art world—that often rewards detachment, Watters proposes something different: being warm can be so much better.