DVAA Member since 2018
Marilyn Stubblebine
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About:
Marilyn is an artist residing in Philadelphia where she continues to exhibit, as well as throughout the United States, in solo and group shows. She has degrees in Art History and Fine Art, as well as in education. American photorealist painter Robert Bechtle was one of her professors as she worked to obtain her Masters degree in Art. Marilyn has experience teaching art and has worked and volunteered in museums such as the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and the Barnes Foundation and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her art is spirited by curiosity as she investigates geometric and occasionally non-geometric abstraction with a focus on color and geometry to give voice to her wonder about the movement of life in time and space. I think of my paintings as visual odes. Expressions praising nature, life, words, music, silence, thought, questions, and mystery. Primarily a painter, Marilyn also is engaged with book arts, composes music published on musescore.com (marilynstubbl), and experiments with other media. In addition, Marilyn’s thoughts on geometry, color, and creative process sometimes prompt writing. She has published articles on medium.org and on her blog at ynotartblog.wordpress.com.
Artist Statement:
Geometric abstraction distinguished by vibrations of color are foundational to my art making process. Together geometry and color make visible my reflections of being in a vast universe. Give weight to the reality of the unknown. Point to the immensity of space that surrounds each second of our lives. Voice the constant hum of wonder. Accept the ambiguity of I am here and Where am I?
The planes and lines in my work exemplify the geometric concept of infinite extension fired by color embodying a theoretical range of endless potential that I envisage expanding off the edges of the support…moving continuously in all directions. Planes of color, boundlessly expanding. Sometimes repetitive use of geometric form and color patterns are used to assert a rhythmic constancy.
My imagined realities conceptualized with geometry and color symbolize an acknowledgement of what is unseen, what is unknown, what is experienced. Odes to the mysteries of life and beyond. Color is chosen to propel the geometry with a multitude of voicings. Color is everything. Holds everything. Speaks and sings. Color shifts. Is this then that. Together color and geometry generate a visual musicality. Alive. A fluidity of endless variations of form and light in awesome presence.
In an article I wrote entitled Thoughts On Lines As Defined In Plane Geometry And As Experienced Drawing in which I attempted to understand my act of drawing a line on a rectangular block of color, I concluded that the drawn line/s are symbolic. What follows is a rewriting of most of the ending paragraph in which I replace the word lines with the word color.
…Symbolic of mystery (where will it continue to?) and beginnings (what will come next?). Color articulating space, marking space, pointing to space, building on space. Color defining paths, forms, and patterns of sound, words, images, and emotions that rise and fall and wiggle [vibrate]. The breadth of color!
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