Fortified Home
Fortified Home was exhibited outdoors in Brooklyn at Empire Fulton-Ferry State Park and also indoors at City Without Walls a gallery in Newark, New Jersey.
On Jan.21, 2005 Dan Bischoff of The Star Ledger of Newark, NJ had this to say in his article,
"Siege mentality: Plastic-clad, duct-taped 'Fortified Home' makes a striking exhibit at City Without Walls. In the middle of ...gallery there is a clapboard playhouse, big enough for full-size people, with a flickering television inside, novelty lights in one window and a welcome mat incised with bluebirds. The entire house, from its peaked shingle roof to its bottom strip of vinyl siding, is surrounded in thick translucant plastic held in place with duct tape. Margaret Roleke's "Fortified Home" is a riff on the Busch administration's panic-inducing anthrax response, which urged Americans to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting in case terrorists attempted a biological or gas attack in their neighborhood. Roleke, who works in Redding, Conn., conceived of the piece as an outdoor sculpture, but the wrapped and alienated house has many meanings in our suburban world-as fortress, sure, but also as a specimen, even as cell."
Lisa J. Curtis from The Brooklyn Papers wrote the following on July 28, 2003
"..."Fortified Home" brillantly captures the paranoia-fueled claustraphobia of post-Sept.11 Brooklyn. She has built a small white house, complete with brick welcome mat, an American flag in the window, anad "Beware of Dog"sign in another, and then covered the entire structure in plastic sheeting secured with duct tape.
All entrances and exits, doors and windows, are sealedbehind the sheeting, almost comicallyanswering the question we all had when officials advised us to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape:how will we get out of our homes?"
Michael Kimmelman from The New York Times called the piece "...a grim one liner.." on Aug.8, 2003.
The Brewster Project
SEATING FOR THE DAY LABORERS
This piece was part of The Brewster Project in Brewster, N.Y.Many laborers wait for jobs on the street corner, these benches provided seating for them.
Outdoor Light Sculpture
Light/Water
Tunnel
Cambridge, England
Fenced in Rocker
FENCED IN ROCKER This series of sculptures was exhibited at Gallery 13 in Danbury, Ct. It was part of a body of work based on domestic issues. Some of these pieces were interactive and others kinetic. Also see photos of Fenced in Rocker.
