SILK SCREEN
Margo moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1979 where she joined the May 19th Communist Organization. Soon she designed and produced prints for the Madame Bihn Graphics Collective studio—the propaganda arm of the organization.
Margo opened Colorgirls, a fine arts silk screen atelier at 111 1st Street in Jersey City NJ in 1990. There she created prints for Bob Blackburn of the Print Making Workshop among others.
“I am interested in confirming silk screen as a fine art medium—using traditional and invented techniques.”
“Acting on the fringes of the Left as well as the fringes of the political art scene, MBGC forged ahead and made some stunning graphics in an era that excelled in that medium.”
— Lucy Lippard
Madame Binh Graphics Collective
Independencia y Socialismo para Puerto Rico, Madame Binh Graphics Collective (Margo Pelletier, lead designer), NYC, 1981
COLORGIRLS
In Memoriam Sarah Isakowski Maller, 1990. Silkscreen (edition of 10), 77 x 55.5 cm.; The Printer, 1985. Oil on Canvas 32.5 x 37.5 in
TOILET PAPER KISSES
Toilet Paper Kisses, 1994. 8-color silk screen print, 38x25.5
LILIES
Lilies, , 1994. 3-color silk screen print, 38x25.5
“I want only to be the footman, waiting simply to open the door, to show you in, to present to you, non enhanced, what is already here.”
— Margo Pelletier, Taipei Series artists statement, 1997
TAIPEI SERIES
How to Enter a Woman
How to Enter A Woman, Crystal, 1997. Seven-color silkscreen print, 38 x 49.5 in.
“Each print represents a woman in my life who has deeply moved me, a woman who has entered my soul.”
