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2011: Wexler Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Beneath the Surface, Recent Paintings and photography.
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2009: Wexler Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2-person exhibition with furniture artist Vivian Beer.
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2006: H. Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut, The Worn City.
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2005: The University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, 'Paintings that Fit in a Suitcase'.
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2003: The DeBottis Gallery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Gouaches and Solar Etchings.
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2001: The DeBottis Gallery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Painting and Work on Paper.
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My painting is somewhere between abstract and non-objective.
There seem to be recognizable images in my work, but they are elusive.
They are closer to apparitions than to real objects or landscapes.
My imagery lacks boundaries and hovers between possibilities.
This deliberate ambiguity is a way of exploring how meaning can be
found where it was not intended. Random marks of paint may seem
to be images of real things, like finding pictures in the clouds.
I utilize both a control of the medium and an allowance for the
accidental. Shifts of the image occur during the painting process and
become part of the finished piece. The completed painting is my response
to the unsettling relationship between random acts and carefully planned
decisions. Also, with each work, I try to balance the physical properties
of the materials used and the metaphorical content of the image.
Marilyn Kirsch
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