BOTANICAL
series "Margaret Casella's unique presentation
of the commonplace challenges the viewer to see beyond the image..these images
refer to 17th century still life traditions and modern abstract trends. Enhanced
by strong and lush color shifts, pictures of fruit, flowers and vegetables are
at the same time ephemeral and eternal."
Published by The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY along with the Summer Garden
exhibit.
"Margaret Casella's process enhances
the visual reference to 17th Century still-life tradition, already implied by
the strong chiaroscuro. Along with the slightly faded color, it also adds a patina
of age, which points up the ephemerality of flesh and bloom, and the inevitable
process of decay that's shared by all things organic." J.
M. Welker for Newsday, August 30, 1995, review for Elaine Benson Gallery, exhibit,
"The Message is the Medium"
"Black & white
photographs taken by Margaret Casella reveal the fine details of root crops, like
the image of a dandelion shown below." Andrea
Delbanco, The New York Times, City Section, October 2000. Review of The Webster
Gallery exhibit at The Horticultural Society of New York.
LIGHTHOUSE
series "Casella evokes the feeling of weather and of passing time by
transferring images of lighthouses onto watercolor paper. Using photograms, and
often gold and silver leaf, she gives luster to her images and creates a dreamscape
of them." Dallas
Murphy for Photo District News
"Margaret Casella
has put a twist on her photographs of lighthouses and, at the same time, her work
has brought her in closer contact with their historical significance". Six images
featured. "New Views of Old Friends Along
the Seashore". Stewart Kampel for The New York Times, June 9, 1996
"In 'Of Land and Sea',
Margaret Casella's iris digital prints and photographic emulsions printed on watercolor
paper are views of lighthouses, usually distorted or fractured so that the resolute
structures are suddenly Cubist, or soft, a la Claes Oldenburg." "Of
Land and Sea", Elaine Benson Gallery exhibit Robert Long for The SOUTHAMMPTON
PRESS, June 1997
GRAND
CENTRAL TERMINAL "Papering the walls: There is an artistic 'PAPER TRAIL'
in GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL...by Margaret Casella leads from the main concourse
to the Lexington Avenue entrance: A display of photos of paper, folded, bent and
curved with light and shade playing on their many forms." Dan
Brucker for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metro-North Commuter
Railroad Arts for Transit program, New York City