R E V I E W S Country Home Magazine 2006 | Daily PDX 2003 | Oregonian 2001 | Oregonian 2000 | Oregonian 1999 | Artweek 2001 | You Don't Know... | Catholic Sentinel 2004 | Oregonian 2005 2001 Interstate Firehouse show is all about art of the steel By Monica Drake Artist use firearm imagery in the provocative "Guns in the Hands of Artist" ... Mary Tapogna has turned the gun imagery toward herself. She's created a self-portrait in a mosaic made from scraps of glass and bottle caps, depicting a suicidal urge. Tapogna describes the work as a response to her sister's slow suicide, years of anorexia leading to a heart attack and brain damage. "This show has been a good means for getting something out of my system," Tapogna says. "It was a timely show... To me, (guns mean) violence, death, away to resolve something, but it's not necessarily my way to resolve something...when I came up with the idea of what I was going to do for my piece, my boyfriend said, 'No, no, you can't do that!' because it was like a suicide. But I'm like, 'Well, I'm not really doing that, I'm just expressing it.' It's better I express it in my work than really do it."...