BIOGRAPHY

Margaret Roleke was born in New York. She currently lives in Brooklyn and Connecticut. Roleke has had recent solo exhibits at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Pen+Brush Gallery New York, NY, and Five Points Art Gallery, Torrington, CT. Her work has been included in shows at The Aldrich, Katonah Museum of Art, and WhiteBox New York, NY. Roleke received an Artist Respond Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in 2024. This year she had a residency at ArtPort Kingston and has an upcoming residency at Teton Artlab in Jackson, Wyoming.An outdoor sculpture of Roleke’s will be installed in Morningside Park, NYC in the spring of 2024.

ARTIST STATEMENT

America faces large challenges; racism, gun violence, global warming, and an assault on the truth. My work is an urgent response to these issues. I create cyanotypes, prints, sculptures and installations that explore these themes. Living near Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of a 2012 mass shooting, inspired sculptures made out of shotgun shells. To this day, I donate a percentage of all work sold to organizations that work for gun control. I move between different mediums creating work that speaks to current issues.

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