Artist Member
“These pictures of time”
Paste papers and digitally enhanced photos printed on Mohawk Superfine
The pyramid is based on a pentagram structure
8 x 10 x 10″
“These pictures of time” is a line from the poem, The Sphinx by Ralph Waldo Emerson. My father left home at age 20 to teach in Africa in 1931. This artist book contains excerpts from his journal and photos he took.
Whale Book – Hwael Boc (old English for Whale Book)
Book board and cloth, etching, marbleized paper, and foil
11” tall
Herman Melville’s Chapter 32 of Moby Dick makes a connection between whales and books. This is a humorous view of that connection by putting a humpback whale inside a book. It was an opportunity to play with the blues and greens of an underwater scene and an opportunity to draw attention in a subtle way to the importance and protection of our oceanic resources.
The Back Yard
Lighted tunnel book, cut paper, book board, and paste paper
14” tall
Sunlight and shadow play
With childhood enthusiasm
the two dogs romp around
Chasing each other, chasing the summer wind.
My yard my yard, they bark.
But after sunset, the pale moon transforms
Bush and tree into looming phantoms.
A quick quiver of grass, a flash of a white tail,
A diamond point of light reflected eye.
Who goes there in my yard, they bark.
Margo Lemieux
BIO
Margo Lemieux has been an artist since the first grade when she got into trouble with her teacher for “decorating” her workbook. After earning a degree in painting from Boston University, she worked as a graphic designer, t-shirt artist, newspaper correspondent, children’s book author and illustrator, and other interesting things.
Currently she is Professor Emerita Art & Graphic Design at Lasell University and a member of Full Tilt Print Studio. Her artwork has been included in exhibits at Art Basel Miami, Press Gallery, North Adams, The Contemporary Art Center, Hanoi, Vietnam, the Newport Art Museum, Stove Factory Gallery, and the Southern Vermont Arts Center. Her education includes masters degrees from Curry College, and UMass Dartmouth. Her poetry has been published in Finishing Line Press, Word Soup Poetry Journal, and other anthologies.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My artistic philosophy revels in the momentary, in the fleeting, in the reflection of an ordinary situation, made extraordinary by the magic of color and imagination. It manifests in painting, printmaking, writing, and dreaming.