User:Mariamarxart

Maria Marx
[www.mariamarx.com]Mariamarxart (talk) 19:56, 1 August 2009 (UTC) Mariamarxart (talk) 19:55, 1 August 2009 (UTC)] maria’s interest in the arts began at a young age of six, starting with the violin. from preschool to college, she has played in numerous chamber groups, symphonies, and has preformed many solo works. although her interest in visual arts was active growing-up, her focus was on playing violin whenever she could. during her college years at oregon state university, maria took an abundance of fine art courses from drawing to painting. from these courses, maria realized that her interest in fine arts was out weighing her interest in music. after college, though, her career path veered away from fine arts to musical instrument repair. she continued this path for the next 4 years until her interest in repair became mundane and tedious. with a gift of an easel and some oil paints and canvases maria began painting. she studied with berkeley chappell, pam ingalls, and jennifer alfredson and took figure drawing courses from local community colleges.

maria resides in somerville massachusetts and is currently a member of the cambridge art association, concord art association, and lynnarts association. along with appearing on the boston and cambridge neighborhood network program, she has won juror’s choice award and has been featured in art new england magazine and her work has been published in hooked on painting by sandra brooke.

maria continues to paint with thick applications of paint with all shapes and sized palette knives. her intense range of color usage makes the work interesting in itself along with the subject matter at hand. she enjoys how light falls on objects and what happens to the colors change as the light hits the objects and surrounding areas.

solo shows 2009 the school of refrigerator door art gallery (ma) 2009 somerville open studios (ma)2009 petsie pie café (ma) 2009 wuchon restaurant (ma) 2008 gulu-gulu restaurant (ma) 2008 somerville open studios (ma)2008 petsie pie café (ma) 2007 somerville open studios (ma)2007 wuchon restaurant (ma) 2006 somerville public library (ma) 2006 somerville open studios (ma) 2006 middle east restaurant (ma) 2005 out of the blue art gallery (ma) 1998 bellefountain winery (or) 1997 java rama café (or) group shows 2008 art salon, gulu-gulu restaurant (ma) 2009 refrigerator door art gallery (ma) 2009 petsie pie café (ma) 2009 frances n. roddy competition, concord art association (ma) 2009 mothers that create, gallery under the stairs (ma) 2007 visions, cambridge art association (ma); *juror’s choice* 2007 members juried i, concord art association (ma) 2007 cool, cambridge art association (ma) 2006 self-portrait show at the little gallery (ma) 2006 pforzheimer house show, harvard college (ma) 2006 paint, lynnarts (ma) 2007 hope fellow church art festival (ma) 2006 fabulous holiday show & sale (ma) 2006 holiday originals, concord art association (ma) 2006 62nd annual fall salon show, cambridge art association (ma) 2006 brattle theatre's art house silent auction (ma) 2006 window arts malden (ma) 2006 3rd annual art fair, cambridge art association (ma) 2006 new members show, cambridge art association (ma) 2006 hope fellow church art festival (ma) 1996 senior show, oregon state university (or) publications & media 2008 cambridge community television appearance 2006 boston neighborhood network television appearance 2006 featured in art new england magazine 1997 hooked on painting, sandra brooke

donations & auctions 2009 stand, benefit silent art auction and sale (ma) 2007 montessori radmoor school, prairie house, oil (mi) 2006 the art connection, unknown, oil (ma) 2006 the art connection, holes or circles, acrylic (ma

art groups 2006-present lynnarts association 2006-present concord art association Mariamarxart (talk) 19:53, 1 August 2009 (UTC)2005-present somerville open studios