GROUP EXHIBIT CONTINUES THROUGH NOVEMBER 10, 2023
I will be participating Feb.18-19 selling prints and cyanotypes.
Outdoor collaborative installation created by Margaret Roleke and Martha Lewis on view through November 6, 2022
Colonels Row Governors island, NewYork, NY
Stand Up On view at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT until September 29, 2022.
Thoughts and Prayers WhiteBox Gallery July 10- July 17, 2022 9 Avenue B New York, NY
The Six Foot Platform Installation in Dumbo, Brooklyn July 2022
Five Points Gallery Installation View of solo exhibit “Armed, Alarmed” 2022
SHELL SPACE installation at The Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary Art Fair 14C Jersey City, New Jersey 2021 Reviewed in the Jersey City Times
Installation view of Weapons of Mass Destruction at Pen & Brush
Pen & Brush
29 East 22nd Street
New York, New York
February 27 - April 30, 2020
In conjunction with In Defense of Painting, Pen + Brush launches a new initiative, Project Space: Margaret Roleke in its downstairs gallery space. This space is intended as a separate project-driven space that will engage the public in more immersive contemporary art experiences. In its first iteration, Pen + Brush presents the exploratory constructs of Margaret Roleke, who creates work that investigates current issues of gun violence and consumption.
Roleke, who has shown her work extensively in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, works with small toys, guns, and spent bullet casing in Project Space to explore the relationships and contradictions within popular culture when it comes to consumerism and violence. The artist received a Bachelor of the Arts from Marymount Manhattan College and a Master of Fine Arts from Long Island University Post. Roleke has shown work at Spring/Break Art Fair, 14C Art Fair, and Flux Art Fair. Her work has been written about in various publications including Hyperallergic, ArtNet, and Artsy.
Installation view at OkieDokie’s show, Mill Street. Margaret Roleke’s End Gun Violence
Mill Street
OkieDokie
26 Mill St New Haven, CT.
Feb 25-March 21 2020
Curated by: Ben Berkowitz, Ruby Gonzales-Hernandez, Noe Jimenez, Joseph Smolinski, Amanda Valaitis
Participating artists: Adam Niklewicz, Amanda Valaitis, Amy Jean Porter, Ana Henriquez, David B. Smith, David Borawski, Dganit Zauberman, Douglas Degges, Elida Paiz Pineda, Erinn McKenna, Esteban Ramón Pérez, FEED: the Monument by Aude Jomini, Eben Kling, Charli Taylor, and Sarah Fritchey, Eoin Burke, Frank Bruckmann, Fritz Horstman, Howard el-Yasin, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Jeff Slomba, Jeremy Chandler, Jessica Smolinski, Johannes DeYoung, José Chavez-Verduzco, Joseph Smolinski, Kyle Goldbach, Kyle Kearson, Margaret Roleke, Mark Mulroney, Megan Craig, Michael Kondel, Natalie Westbrook, Nathan T Lewis, Noé Jimenez, Roy De La Cruz, Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez, SaRon Garnes, Susan Clinard, Susan McCaslin, Valentina Sarfeh, Zachary Keeting
Mill St. is a group show responding to the concept of monumentality. Housed within an industrial building, works respond to scale, evoke the notion of monumentality, and/or contemplate the idea of the contemporary monument.
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Happy Wars
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street, Hartford CT
May 19-June 24, 2015
Read Susan Dunne’s Hartford Courant review.
Consumption, consumerism, and excess are all addressed in Happy Wars, by Margaret Roleke. Using gendered childrens’ toys, Roleke highlights the stereotypical differences between toys meant for girls, and those meant for boys, paying particular attention to the oddly sexualized Disney characters and Barbie dolls that are standard girls fare.
The toys are a vehicle for Roleke's larger ideas, which explore the tendency of our current culture to use social media and propaganda to prescribe narrow, contrived definitions to us as individuals and as a nation.