2001
"Guns in the Hands of Artist" at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
Lois Allan
Contributing editor
... Mary Tapogna combined two- and three-dimensional elements in her mosaic portrait fashioned from bits of colored glass and bottle caps. It was reminiscent of religious icons except that a gun imbedded in the surface, its barrel placed against the side of the subject's head, set it in the context of suicide. ...