Margaret Roleke

Margaret Roleke, Pretty Pink, 2015, etching, drypoint with aquatint, 15 x 22

2015

Margaret Roleke tackles the National Rifle Association and Trump’s role in supporting it in her large scale relief print with collage. Roleke has been dedicated to gun control and has donated a percentage of her art sales to this cause for several years.Margaret Roleke is a sculptor who also creates prints and “mail art”. She has lived and worked in New York and Connecticut for most of her life. Her work has been exhibited often. In 2018 her art was included in exhibits at ODETTA in Brooklyn, N. Y., Concepto Hudson Gallery in Hudson, NY , Art Space New Haven, Governor’s Island, NYC, as well as other venues . Roleke helped organize and exhibited in #Unload: Pick up the Pieces at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT. In this exhibit artists used decommissioned guns to create art and create a dialogue on gun control and gun violence. The Trump presidency has added fuel...

Margaret Roleke has created the sculpture “Pop,pop” specifically for the Las Gravitas exhibition at ODETTA. The title refers both to the fun and colorful hues of the piece that pop ...

Margaret Roleke's work explores sensationalism, consumerism and the crazy contradictions and relationships that develop when popular culture mixes with war and religion. The Trump presidency has pushed her to be further involved as a political activist and artist. Many new pieces deal with protest and resistance. But the major theme which she has been exploring for several years is gun violence. Using spent shotgun shells and brass, as well as, paper targets in much of her work, from a distance the viewer is not sure what these colorful spent shotgun pieces are. Only upon closer examination does one realize that they are actually made from spent bullets. The environmental plastic waste is also an issue she explores in her work. A percentage of all of Roleke's sales are donated to organizations that work for gun control. Roleke's new silkscreens and cyanotypes deal with the issues of putting families in cages, and the dismantling of the ideas of life, liberty and justice for all...

Ann Chernow’s work is based on impressions related to images from movies from the l930s and l940s. She uses film clips, studio publicity material, fan magazines and other memorabilia...

Limited edition of 90 prints, numbered and hand signed.

Mixed media on Japanese paper Artist Biography: Angela A’Court was born in London, UK and lives and works in New York and London. She studied at the University for the Creative Arts UK (UCA),UK, Parsons School of Art and Design, New York, Goldsmiths College, London and in 2022 received a Masters from City and Guilds Art School London in Art...

Pink Nude is an original colored lithograph realized by the artist Nino Terziari in the 1970s. Hand-signed by the artist on lower right. Artist's Proof (P.A. is handwritten on lower...

The Figure is an original Etching and Drypoint realized by Pietro Guccione in 1964. Hand-signed. Numbered, 41/50. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balan...