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Margaret RolekeMargaret Roleke, Red Head, 2018, Relief Print, 40 x 31.5 in2018
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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 to Roleke’s political activism, and recent work includes images of political protests ,as well as, Trump and his cohorts.
Roleke has been reviewed in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and additional publications.
- Creator:Margaret Roleke (American)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)
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- Condition:There are two prints, one black and the other red.
- Gallery Location:Darien, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU17224058791
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