Installation
In 1996, Margo created the solo-show Out of Service to great critical acclaim.
The installation filled Trans-Hudson gallery in Jersey City, New Jersey run by Joseph Soecz and included: a full-sized camper trailer stripped down to wood and metal entitled; scattered plaster cast liquor bottles; a series of mute objects on cement brick pillars; an empty rabbit cage; and an ironing board over which is carefully draped a sheer white shirt.
Objects which, together, composed a bleak portrait of domesticity gone wrong.
“Pelletier, without proselytizing, has made a scathing indictment of our society’s often hypocritical notions of family and home.”
“Margo Pelletier is determined to salvage something beautiful from the wreckage of contemporary life…a metaphorical burial ground of …unusable objects haunted by lost experiences.”
Ways She Loved Him, 1996. Cast Iron, fiberboard and silk, 42x13 in.
Shoe Shine Box, 1995. Street wood, polish, plaster, ink iron, 14.5 x 10.5.13 in.
Bottles, 1995. Plaster and ink
Worried Well, 1995. Plaster and ink
Bottles, 1995. Plaster and ink
Shoe Shine Box, 1995. Street wood, polish, plaster, ink iron, 14.5 x 10.5.13 in.
Lisa Steinberg’s Rabbit Hutch, 1995. Snow fence, chicken wire, Kremer pigments. 41 x 44 x 23 in.
Trailer, 1995. Full-sized camper trailer stripped down to wood and metal.
Out of Service, 2004