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MARCIA.MARX
paintings | assemblages | sculpturetribute & biography
NEW YORK - I am sad to report that artist/colleague MARCIA MARX died in New York in May 2005 after a 2-year battle with cancer.
In the fall of 2004 she was able to present a major show, an interpretation of the Holocaust at the Houston Holocaust Museum in Texas, following a successful retrospective of her paintings and sculpture at the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York in 2002. The show was documented by a handsome color catalogue with an introductory essay by Robert C. Morgan.
As an artist, Marcia Marx was a visual satirist. In her paintings, drawings and sculpture there is a sense of the ridiculous and an eye for the bizarre and comedic elements in human experience. Her vividly colourful works are Felliniesque in tone and they reflect a strongly personal mastery of both her medium and her message.
After studying at Columbia and Yale, she lived and painted in Mexico City for more than a decade, which provided the ongoing inspiration for her visual imagery. She was the first woman and first North American artist to hold a one-person show at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Time magazine called the exhibition a "smash hit."
Marx was one of the six artists featured in Cosmopolitan's report on Women Artists Today. (Others included were Louise Nevelson and Georgia O'Keeffe.)
She has worked in Israel, Paris and Rome and has had numerous exhibitions of her work in prominent galleries. Her paintings are part of many public and private collections around the world.
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The estate of MARCIA MARX is represented
by New York lawyer Daniel Gersen
E-mail:etownx@aol.com
marcia marx online
www.artfocus.com/MarciaMarx.html
