TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Marge Miccio
Ghosts of Factories Past
assemblage – painted found objects, clay, beads, string, and feathers, 2023; 12.5″h x 11″w x 3″d
Marge Miccio (MargeMiccio.com) recent exhibits include: “Manifesting Beloved Community,” Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum Arts Garage, Atlantic City, NJ; “A Sense of Place Invitational, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ; The Woodmere Annual: 80th Annual Exhibition, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Mercer County Senior Art Show, Best in Show, First Prize, Sculpture; “Women Artists Trenton Style” invitational, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ; Mercer County Senior Art Show, First Prize, Painting; “Four Women From Trenton,” Contemporary Art Center, Bedminster, NJ; “Every Ghetto, Every City,” BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ; “Pushing 40” invitational, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ; “Furniture as Art” invitational, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ; “Serving Up Art Trenton Style,” Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY; and “Trenton Makes,” Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, Juror’s Award. Her work is in the collections of the State of NJ, Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Mercer County Community College, and in private collections. From 1986-2018, she was the owner of Artifacts Gallery, Trenton NJ; the 2005 juror, D&R Greenway Land Trust Annual Juried Exhibition, Princeton NJ; 1996-2001 Grants Panelist, Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission; 1986-1989 Trenton City Museum Commissioner, Trenton NJ; and 1986-1987 painting instructor, Hamilton Township School for Adult and Continuing Education, Hamilton NJ. She studied sculpture at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Princeton, NJ. She received her BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, majoring in painting. She studied studio art, art history, and Italian at the Italian University for Foreigners, Perugia Italy.
“Inventing and engineering assemblages on different themes in the past few tumultuous years has been both cathartic and calming for me. ‘Ghosts of Factories Past’ contrasts the sad rotting abandoned factories I see every day in Trenton, with vintage photos and union ephemera from years past, when these buildings and others like them provided good life-long livelihoods to average Americans.”