Margaret Chiaro

Margaret Alexis Chiaro was born in York, Pennsylvania. She attained a cum laude BFA from the University of Arizona and received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art.

She currently resides in Oceanside, CA and is a working artist and art instructor.

Margaret uses figurative painting to invite the viewer to enter a unique world or moment. Spending hundreds of hours on a single piece, painting everything by hand in traditional techniques, she obsessively renders her subjects, caught in moments when they are open and expressive. Through her chosen genre, Magical Realism, she fuses reality with imagination to create a visceral new “world” for the subject to dwell in and the viewer to observe.

“My goal is to best portray the subject’s individuality while engulfing the viewer in an emotionally charged specific moment. I love duality and opposition, balance over symmetry, and the idea of shared energy.”