Artist Focus: Margo Selski – Balance

Artist Focus: Margo Selski – Balance

According to Margo Selski, balance has been a reoccurring theme in her work for more than two decades. “On a narrative level, balance is something that modern people, especially women, struggle with: I am a working artist; I have three young children; I teach at a university; I have a menagerie of pets in my home; I am a homemaker; and somewhere in there, I have to try to be me as well,” explains Selski. “Balancing all these different competitors for the limited hours in my day is difficult, as it is for many women. On a theoretical level, balance is something that characterizes my work.”

Sometimes the balances within the work become uncertain. “Relationships become inverted. Mothers become children. Children become empty eggs. Princesses become wolves. Eggs, children, families, all start to divide and become something unrecognizable,” she elaborates.

During graduate school in Minnesota, Selski created a “recipe” for faux craquelure, smearing her paintings with beeswax and freezing them. She then painted in the cracks with oil and beeswax to mimic Renaissance painting, creating an aged quality. Today she has modified the technique using dental tools to scratch the cracks into the surface.

“We previewed a few artworks of Margo’s with special collectors and they were immediately drawn to her unique technique, imaginative figures, and the untold story she offered the viewer. We are thrilled to have her work in the gallery,” says Richard Demato, owner of New York-based Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery, which represents her work.

Her paintings will hang in the galley through December beginning with an opening on November 24.

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Barber Chair

60.5" x 47.5" / 153.7 x 120.7cm
Charcoal on Stonehenge paper

Whispers of Light

16" x 8" / 40.6 x 20.3cm
Watercolor on Aquabord

Golden Reverie

20" x 16" / 50.8 x 40.6cm
Watercolor on Aquabord

Echoes of Porcelain

24" x 24" / 61 x 61cm
Watercolor on Aquabord

Tribute

16" x 20" / 40.6 x 50.8cm
Oil on canvas

Study for “The Guest”

7" x 5" / 17.8 x 12.7cm
Acrylic on panel

Study for “The Courtiers”

20" x 16" / 50.8 x 40.6cm
Drawing on artist paper

Power – Limited Edition Framed A/P Print

35.5 x 32.25 in

PURCHASE

Serenity

20" x 20" / 50.8 x 50.8cm
Watercolor on Aquabord

Far Away – Limited Edition Unframed Print

24 x 19.25 in

PURCHASE

Her Thoughts They Hum – Limited Edition Unframed Print

24 x 20 in

PURCHASE

Memory Weaver – Limited Edition Unframed Print

24.5 x 20 in

PURCHASE

In the Hollow – Limited Edition Unframed Print

27 x 20 in

PURCHASE

Her Fancy – Limited Edition Unframed Print

13.5 x 20 in

PURCHASE

The Sentinel – Limited Edition Unframed Print

20 x 13.25 in

PURCHASE

The Window – Limited Edition Unframed Print

20 x 13.5 in

PURCHASE

Wood Fire – Limited Edition Unframed Print

20 x 20 in

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No Turning Back – Limited Edition Unframed Print

10 x 20 in

PURCHASE

Thaw – Limited Edition Unframed Print

20 x 25 in

PURCHASE

Flight – Limited Edition Unframed Print

8 x 8 in

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The Road She Walks – Limited Edition Unframed Print

16 x 20 in

PURCHASE

The Travelers – Limited Edition Unframed Print

20 x 20 in

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No Trespassing – Limited Edition Unframed Print

20 x 16 in

PURCHASE

Beyond Here – Limited Edition Unframed Print

24 x 20 in

PURCHASE

Beyond Here

48" x 60" / 121.9 x 152.4cm
Acrylic on canvas

Recollection

24" x 30" / 61 x 76.2cm
Acrylic on canvas

Bloom – Limited Edition Unframed Print

8 x 8 in

PURCHASE

The Eclosion of a Butterfly – Limited Edition Unframed Print

12 x 24 in

PURCHASE

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