Vamp Kids on LSD


“Vamp Kids on LSD,” Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022

Marge J. Buckley

24 January 2024

Art & Hybrid

Artist Statement: Vamp Kids on LSD is an intuitive painting. Like much of Marge’s work, she started with a concept (‘a red color study in the shape of a spiral’), and let each stroke inform the next until the moment when the work was finished. The painting now reminds her of death, and drugs, and of people who don’t quite fit in. The piece is currently for sale on my website at: https://www.margebuckley.net/paintings4sale/p/vamp-kids-on-lsd


Marge J. Buckley (she/her) is a writer, performer, and painter. She grew up in Virginia, graduated from Boston's Emerson College in 2017 with a degree in Acting, and moved to Minneapolis in 2019 in order to continue her playwrighting work with local theatre group Commutator Collective. Her plays have been performed in Minneapolis, Boston, and New York City. Marge started showing and selling her paintings in 2022 with the help of her mentor, Hilary Greenstein. Her work explores the weird, colorful, and messy nature of the world around her. She depicts monsters and aliens and animals and bugs and plants and objects and systems and rooms and shapes and people as equally ridiculous and delightfully strange. She employs dramatic colors and surreal compositions as tools of optimism which assert that radical transformation is always in reach.