Margo Wolowiec Mounts First Solo New York Show at Marlborough Contemporary

For Detroit-based artist Margo Wolowiec’s first solo show at Marlborough Contemporary in New York, the key word is “vulnerability.” “Still Water, Circling Palms” features new woven textile works by the artist, who has been exploring how news media has changed in the wake off the 2016 presidential election. “I love how language feels like it’s also a part of weaving metaphors,” she says. “For this series, I was thinking a lot about climate change and severe weather events, how this is another place where we’re found extremely vulnerable, and how we are using news media and even social media as tools for warnings system to alert people to these severe weather events,” she continues. “How facts can enter into those systems and become lost or distorted. It’s also a kind of dangerous place.” The work incorporates images found online, mostly through Instagram and relating to weather forecasting, and consumption of that media by users. She searches hashtags and geotags for specific storms and areas, and then collages the images digitally before printing them onto thread. “I really use Instagram as an open source painters palette almost,” she says. (And an open source that has become less open while she worked, a reaction to

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