Megan Broughton is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, addressing the climate crisis, loss, transformation, and the sublime. Her work stems from onsite study in the Arctic, where she has been an artist in residence with MaréMotrice in Greenland and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard. Exhibition highlights include Berkeley Art Center, Richmond Art Center, and Minnesota Street Project. Megan received an Emerging Individual Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2023 and is currently an Artist in Residence at The Exploratorium in San Francisco. Megan holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
About
I use experimental etching and drawing techniques to process at-risk local and global environments. A fascination with natural elements and transformation fuels my work. I am particularly interested in air currents, fog, and bodies of ice and water. I am heavily influenced by the famous pale blue dot photograph, onsite studies in the Arctic, and geologic deep time. My imagery is often fragmented as if swept away on the wind or lost to time. Atmospheric shapes chase and erase solid forms as imagery disappears and reforms. This sense of losing one’s way within the work echoes the damaging ways in which geopolitics and capitalism have affected planetary health. I seek to inspire care for and curiosity about the climate by bringing faraway, sublime environments that are crucial to our everyday lives closer to home.