PAINTING
Margo studied painting from observation at The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and with Jacqueline Gourevitch at Hartford Art School.
From 1985-1988, she studied Abstract Expressionist painting with Deborah Remington at Cooper Union School of Fine Arts, New York, New York.
Cooper Union awarded her a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors and the Michael Vito Award in drawing in 1988.
Margo continued to explore painting in her series Chain of Incident, 1993, writing "This is not painting in the spirit of the Abstract Expressionists or the Action Painters who wrestled with the medium, the process and the paint itself becoming the subject. The components are painted in the style of ritual."
“I want to momentarily knock people off balance into that zone where what one knows is fuzzed out and replaced by what one feels.”
Margo Pelletier, The Gift Bearer (self-portrait), 1991. Oil on Canvas, 73 x 31 inches.
Still Inside, 1986. Oil on canvas, 36x44 in.
Leaving the Livingroom, 1987. Oil on Canvas 36x46 in.
Forging The Pack, 1988. Oil on Canvas, 36x46 in.
Obstinate Bundle of Longing I, 1987. Oil on canvas, 26.x44 in.
Obstinate Bundle of Longing II, 1987. Oil on Canvas, 36 x 44 in.
The Cripple, 1987. Oil on Canvas, 36 x 44 in.
The Printer, 1985. Oil on Canvas 32.5 x 37.5 in.
Margo Pelletier walking with Frances Anne amidst “Chain of Incident,” 1993.
Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey.
In 1993, Margo created the exhibit Chain of Incident at Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey featuring larger-than life, silk screened, three dimensional objects accompanied by a sound installation she commissioned from David Simons.
“I began to look in nature for shapes that people could find truth in. Shapes whose surfaces were naturally abstract.”
Detail, Chain of Incident, 1993. Acrylic paint with photo silkscreen on fiberboard, 361⁄2 x 27 x 21⁄2 in.
