Boris Margo

About

Margo married painter Jan Gelb in 1941, became a U.S. citizen in 1943, and joined the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1947. His work appeared in key exhibitions such as Peggy Guggenheim's Abstract and Surrealist American Art in 1947 and was acquired by institutions like the Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He taught at the American University in 1946, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1950s, and other universities, while evolving stylistically from biomorphism in the 1940s to calligraphic forms in the 1950s. A retrospective was held at the Provincetown Art Association in 1988, and he founded galleries in Orlando, Florida, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, before his death in 1995.

Surrealism with biomorphic and abstract expressionist elements, innovative techniques like cellocut and decalcomania