There's something deeply unsettling about walking into a room filled with Megan Marrin's paintings. Maybe it's the way she captures the grotesque beauty of a corpse flower in full bloom, or how her medieval torture devices seem to loom over you with an eerie emptiness. Whatever it is, people can't stop talking about this New York-based artist whose work has been making waves across the contemporary art scene.
Marrin didn't start out painting things that make people squirm. Growing up in St. Louis, she was drawn to traditional still-life painting, but something shifted during her time at Columbia University where
