A Glimpse of the Encore

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Margo Selski
A Glimpse of the Encore
2016

About the Item

Margo Selski received a Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Minnesota. She also received a Master’s in Art for Children from the State University of New York in Brockport. Her undergraduate BA degree is from Berea College. She has been a full-time studio painter since 1994. Selski's paintings echo qualities found in northern Flemish masterpieces. The imaginary characters are rendered in intricate details frozen in mid-gesture within airless spaces. Her goal is to explore the mysterious by juxtaposing images from myth and reality. Thematically, her work addresses motherhood, familial love, permanence, impermanence, and the fragility of childhood and life. The subject of the paintings communicates an underlying desire for safety and stability in a threatening world. Her oil and beeswax paintings have been featured in several one-person exhibitions, including the Plains Art Museum, Illinois Central College, The Art Institute International Minnesota, the University of Minnesota, the Saint Cloud State University, Augsburg College, Rochester Museum and Art Center, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her work has been recognized for its excellence, producing numerous awards and honors, and has been collected in various museums, including the Plains Art Museum, Tweed Museum, Fredrick Weisman Museum, and the Contemporary Museum of Art in Colorado. In 2004/05, she was awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant and in 2005 she won the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Grant through the Jerome Foundation. PROCESS STATEMENT I incorporate a novel technique to achieve an old (or even outside of time) effect. During graduate school in Minnesota, I concocted a recipe for faux craquelure; smearing my paintings with beeswax and then freezing them either in a Chinese restaurant's freezer or outside during the long winters. I then painted inside the frozen cracks with oil paint and beeswax to mimic Renaissance painting. Over the years this process has been modified, but ultimately the final result is an aged quality. Though I continue to initially cover each oil painting with beeswax, I now use dental tools to scratch the cracks into the surface prior to laying oil paint into the crevices. This time consuming process might be repeated three or four times on the same painting, but is made worthwhile when the final result is that ‘Jan Van Eyck has taken a little trip down the rabbit hole.’

Creator:
Margo Selski (American)
Creation Year:
2016
Dimensions:
Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil,Wax
Movement & Style:
Surrealist
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Bridgehampton, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU992809283