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Mixed Media Tableaus by Margerie Albertini
October 24 - November 22, 2025
Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman Gallery
Artist Statement: Margerie Albertini
My work investigates femininity, and visibility through assemblages using feminine coded material/objects: doilies, veils, ribbons, and pearls. These ornamental objects become tools for examining gender identity and performance.
I construct fragile yet imposing tableaus where intimacy and distance coexist. Each work an invitation to reconsider the objects/materials as elements in feminist narratives transformed into expressions of strength, resistance, and reclamation, softness and strength, beauty and burden, visibility and erasure.
Biography:
Margery Albertini received an MFA in Sculpture from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her artwork has been shown nationally, including exhibits at the Columbus Museum of Art, The Organization of International Artists in New York, The Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, Hera Art Gallery, S. Kingston, RI, Attleboro Art Museum, MA, Womens Work Art, and 1708 Gallery in Richmond Virginia. She has been awarded residencies in New York with the Chautauqua Institute for the Arts and in Maryland with the Rockville Commission of the Arts. Margery also created sculptures for public spaces including the 20th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition in Boone North Carolina, The Manchester Sculpture Invitational in Richmond Virginia and The Glenview Mansion Art on the Grounds in Rockville Maryland. As a professor Margery taught Art at J. Sargent Reynolds and John Tyler Community Colleges. As a child educator, Margery worked with community children to create two large scale outdoor public murals for the City of Rockville Maryland and has taught art for children with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rockville Arts Space, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center.

"HIDING 2", Oil pastel, 14X 11 inches

"GLASS in the NEST", brass ladle, strands of pearls, glass stopper, tulle. 24 X 6 X 6 inches

"I NEEDED YOUR HANDS", Petticoat, long magenta gloves, lace large safety pins, elastic, 40 X 26 X 5 inches

"A LONG DAY", upside down hand mirror, powder box, wire scrub brush, braid of real hair, 24 X 7 X 6 inches

"A TRAP", Framed Vintage portrait sketch of woman, brass wire sieve, strand of black beads. 14 X 6 X 5 inches

"PORTRAIT of TWO WOMEN", Vintage portraits of women, plastic measuring cups, pearls, satin ribbon, tulle. 30 X 30 X 6 inches

"PAIR", Oil pastel, 11 X 14 inches

"CROWN" Oil pastel 14 X 11 inches

"I WillI WILL WEAR THE CROWN", Vintage beaded, pearl collar, pink silk handkerchief, pearl straight pins , veil. 31 X 9 X 3 inches

"HIDING", Oil Pastel 14 X 11 inches