Turner Street Mural: Clare Grill and Margaux Ogden

This large-scale, six-paneled mural by artists Clare Grill and Margaux Ogden transforms the exterior of the Center for the Arts into a vibrant, dynamic visual dialogue. Each panel presents a distinct approach to color, form, and texture — ranging from geometric abstraction to layered, gestural compositions.

Grill’s softly layered paintings draw from antique embroidery and domestic textiles, creating abstract compositions that resonate with the textures of memory. Working on linen, she drags paint across the surface revealing the weave before cycles of painting, scraping, and wiping. Her forms emerge slowly as if unearthed, inviting viewers into a contemplative, intimate space. These works reflect the quiet labor of craft and the presence of time.

In contrast, Ogden’s paintings are vivid, architectural, and systematic. Her imperfect mirroring and the subtle shifts between paintings encourage the viewer to engage more intensively with the work. Using diluted acrylic washes, she creates rhythmic, freehand paintings, allowing chance and human touch to disrupt the grid’s logic. Her colors — bold, unusual, often luminous — pulse across the surface with both an optical and emotional charge.

About the Artists

Clare Grill

Clare Grill (b. 1979, Chicago, Illinois) received a master of fine arts from the Pratt Institute in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Wich Language and Oyster, M+B, Los Angeles; At the Soft Stages, Derek Eller Gallery, New York; There's the Air, Derek Eller Gallery, New York; and Touch'd Lustre, Zieher Smith & Horton, New York. Group exhibitions include Of Flesh and Air, Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid; The Feminine in Abstract Painting, Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York; Deep! Down! Inside!, Hales Gallery, New York; and New Skin, curated by Jason Stopa, Monica King Gallery, New York. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. Grill lives and works in Queens, New York.

Margaux Ogden

Margaux Ogden (b. 1983, Boston, Massachusetts) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Ogden received a bachelor's degree from Bard College in 2005 and in a master of fine arts in painting from Boston University in 2012. Solo exhibitions include White Cube online exhibition (2024); Tif Sigfrids in Athens, Georgia (2024); Deanna Evans Projects, New York (2023); Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco (2023); Rental Gallery in East Hampton, New York (2018); and Embajada in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016). Residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and the British School at Rome. In 2018 she was a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient. Ogden's work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Cultured, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, BOMB, and Galerie, among other publications.

Featured Works

(from left to right)
Margaux Ogden; Bathers (Phthalo Green, Quinacridone Magenta, Cyan & Light Phthalo Blue), 2024 (detail); acrylic on canvas; 48 x 36 inches; courtesy of the artist
Ogden; Bathers (Phthalo Green, Magenta, Cyan & Red), 2024 (detail); acrylic on canvas; 70 x 60 inches; courtesy of the artist
Ogden; Bathers (Quinacridone Red, India Yellow Hue & Magenta), 2024 (detail); acrylic on canvas; 48 x 36 inches; courtesy of the artist
Clare Grill; Twist, 2024 (detail); oil on linen; 60 x 55 inches; courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Grill; Bloom, 2024 (detail); oil on linen; 60 x 48 inches; courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Grill; Bit, 2024 (detail); oil on linen; 24 x 24 inches; courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York