Margo Margolis’ continuing commitment to abstraction is as fresh and invigorating as it was in the early 1970s when she began exhibiting with the Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York where she had several shows. In addition her work has been exhibited throughout the country at numerous galleries and institutions including The Pennsylvania Academy of Art, The Renaissance Society, The Munson-Williams Proctor Institute and Halls Walls, among others.
In reviewing the artist’s 1993 exhibition in the gallery for the Boston Globe, art critic Nancy Stapen stated:
“…eccentric, quasi-geometric forms and initial
impression of simplicity belie this artist’s highly
sophisticated grasp of paintings. These are multi-
layered works concerned with the discipline’s core
issues – transluscency and opacity, flatness and
illusioinism, line and form, figure and ground, pattern
and surface, structure and weightless pictorial space…
these paintings may be analyzed up to a point. In
the end, their process remains mysterious. Their
appeal lies in their engagement with an inventive
form language intrinsic to painting, as well as in their
deft synthesis of quietude and quirkiness.”
June 3, 1993
The Boston Globe’s current Chief Art Critic, Cate, McQuaid, wrote of Margolis’ 2017 exhibition in the gallery:
“Her marks grab at you as insistently as a
toddler demanding attention. They’re like a
language made purely of punctuation,
rhythmic and emphatic, let out of the duty
of modifying sentences, freed at last to express
itself alone.”
January 6, 2017
Margo Margolis’ works are included in numerous public collections including the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, Amerata-Hess
Corporation, General Mills, Best Products, IBM, Estee Lauder, Miami-Dade College, Chemical
Bank, and Wellington Management. She is the recipient of many awards including
2 grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, and Yaddo and MacDowell Residency Grants. Margolis received a BS degree from Skidmore College and an MFA from Indiana University. She lives and works in New York.
