Margaret Evangeline (born 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a post-minimalist painter and video, performance, and installation artist, noted for paintings riddled with bullet holes.
[1] Evangeline was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and lived in New Orleans before moving to New York City in 1992.
In these installations, viewers can find their reflections moving through bullet-marked environments of woods[3] or water,[4] with outcomes sometimes documented in Evangeline’s videos.
In New Orleans, she filled a cottage with fertile dirt from the Mississippi River, which sprouted new growth from seeds she planted.
Including an essay by Edward Lucie-Smith and an interview by Dominique Nahas, it was reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail article 'Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass'[10] Sabachthani,[11] a book of photographs, essays and poetry centered around a project Evangeline carried out in collaboration with her son's military unit in Iraq, was also published by Charta[9] in November 2012.