“Spoils of War” is a poem illustrated by a series of 17 panels commemorating the artist’s mother’s 1988 immigration from the Soviet Union to Chicago. Twenty-five years after that transition, "Spoils of War" invites its readers to join in celebrating feats like those of refuseniks and American activists in the name of individual pursuits of happiness. Buy the book today.

A series of propaganda posters created for the ArtOnBrighton Art Festival on the boardwalk near Coney Island, and inside the NY Aquarium October 2011. Each branded with the motto, WITH GREAT FREEDOM COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY, a hybrid quote of Eleanor Roosevelt and Voltaire, speaking directly to the generation of immigrants whose turn it is to make it big in the new country.

Series exhibited at KGB Bar in NYC's East Village Spring and Summer 2011 commemorating the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl. On April 28, a dialogue on transparency and active democracy was organized in the literary venue accompanying the exhibit. Read the manifesto.

Installation titled "Die, Mauer," commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It is currently housed at Chicago's DANK-Haus German Cultural Center. Read the artist speech presented at the opening of the exhibit.

Immigrating City puts Chicago in the limelight along with many of its notable icons: The El, Lake Michigan, the city’s diversity, and even biking culture.

Public art means making art accessible to the public. Several paintings from past exhibits are still available for sale, and Margarita is accepting and creating commissions for new patrons actively in the forms of paintings, large-scale paintings, murals, magazine illustrations, and album art.