Maggie Phelps is a multidisciplinary photographer and artist based in Austin, Texas. Currently pursuing a BA Photography and Media Arts, and minoring in Graphic Design at St. Edward's University, Phelps is well versed in both analog and digital photography.
Phelps started as a painter influenced by “the old masters”, though her work gradually evolved into a style blending Art Nouveau motifs with psychedelic designs, and expanding into printmaking and photographic collage. Currently her work is largely photographic, centering around editorial fashion, documenting alternative fashion, and the documentation of forgotten spaces.
Phelps’s digital photography is characterized by her use of vibrant colors, tongue and cheek humor, and exploration of the female form. Her analog photography is informed by an amalgamation of growing up in a “sub-rural” area, her lazy Roman Catholic background, and self proclaimed ambiverted personality; leading her to explore themes involving catholic symbolism, solitude, and the bittersweet nostalgia for forgotten places.