Maggie Lina Kerrigan

Fine Art

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Maggie Kerrigan is a visual artist located in Virginia Beach, VA, creating two- and three-dimensional artworks by altering books. Each artwork begins with a carefully curated book and an individualized process to intrigue the viewer and further explore the literatures’ themes. A variety of processes are used, including scissor-cutting, carving, folding, paper casting, and deconstruction/reconstruction of the book.

Recent Works

This altered book artwork is stack of 9 books hand-carved by Virginia Beach artist, Maggie Kerrigan, and reads as the sentence "We must read as if our souls depend on it, because they do!"

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan of Virginia Beach. It is a paper-casted princess telephone covered in paper from the biography of Princess Diana.

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan. A pair of combat boots and set of dog tags that are made of paper from the book Jet Girl about a female fighter pilot.

A pair of paper-cast running shoes and a runners bib created by artist Maggie Kerrigan. The shoes and bib are formed by paper from the book, First Ladies of Running.

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan that depicts a pair of low heeled shoes and a fashionable hat, the type that would have been worn by Princess Diana. The paper-cast items are made from the biography of the princess.

A collage by artist Maggie Kerrigan that implies melting glaciers and uses paper cut from encyclopedias.

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan with the words "Fragile Like A Bomb" carved into the edges of 3 books about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Frida Kahlo.

An artwork of a paper-cast pair of shoes and "feather boa" made by Virginia Beach artist Maggie Kerrigan from the book Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels.