"Margo Mead, whose recent painting of idealized male and female figures in cosmic settings, vibrantly realized in watercolor, ink and oil crayon on rice paper, are among her finest to date. Monumental and visionary, these symbolic figures inhabit starry expanses like sexy deities, at once erotically charged and ethereal, even as they embody humanistic ideas alluded to in titles such as, "We Can't Drill Our Way Out" and "Earth: For Our Children's Children."
By Maurice Taplinger
Gallery & Studio, June/July/August 2011, Vol. 13, No. 5, Review, "Simplicity" page 26
"Margo Mead continued her journey as a concerned commentator on the ecological miasma of the earth. Her piece, "Hear no Truth, See No Truth, Speak No Truth" echoed the three monkeys of folklore but in this case, the depiction was sinister as humankind refused to confront the environmental destruction of our fragile planet."
By Anne Rudder
West Side Arts Coalition Newsletter, February 2013, Review of "Winter Warm-Up" page 2
"The symbolic male and female figures of Margo Mead are possessed of an opposite universality. Classically proportioned, strongly generalized, they inhabit cosmic spaces and spheres like monumental sculptures given flight..."
By Marie R. Pagano
Gallery & Studio, February - March 2013, Vol. 15 No. 3, Review, "From Realism to Abstraction" page 20
By Maurice Taplinger
Gallery & Studio, June/July/August 2011, Vol. 13, No. 5, Review, "Simplicity" page 26
"Margo Mead continued her journey as a concerned commentator on the ecological miasma of the earth. Her piece, "Hear no Truth, See No Truth, Speak No Truth" echoed the three monkeys of folklore but in this case, the depiction was sinister as humankind refused to confront the environmental destruction of our fragile planet."
By Anne Rudder
West Side Arts Coalition Newsletter, February 2013, Review of "Winter Warm-Up" page 2
"The symbolic male and female figures of Margo Mead are possessed of an opposite universality. Classically proportioned, strongly generalized, they inhabit cosmic spaces and spheres like monumental sculptures given flight..."
By Marie R. Pagano
Gallery & Studio, February - March 2013, Vol. 15 No. 3, Review, "From Realism to Abstraction" page 20
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