Marjorie Minkin

Artist Statement:: My Lexan relief works and paintings on canvas are about color and movement. Created with iridescent and interference pigments, the visual appearance of my art shifts with the viewer’s vantage point offering constantly changing perceptual experiences. The translucency of the reflective plastic in the reliefs intensifies the shifts of light and tones and contributes to the illusion of space. My personal connection with nature informs my work including composite memories of special geographical places and aerial views of the earth. While my paintings are abstract, they are ultimately about the changing affects of color and light in nature and landscape.

Biography:: Born in Cambridge Massachusetts, Marjorie Minkin received her BA from Skidmore College in philosophy and studio art and degrees in painting from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Minkin exhibits in Boston and New York, most recently at Jason Rulnick Gallery, New York, 2009. Since 1991 she has shown with the artists’ group the New New Painters in the US and in Europe at such venues as the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice; the Stadtsche Gallery, Goppingen, Germany; the Musee des Beaux Arts, Chaleroi, Belgium and the National Gallery, Prague. Minkin has created Lexan theater sets for the rock band "Phish." and has collaborated on an interactive installation with her musician son incorporating Lexan reliefs, custom designed sounds, and proximity sensors which was featured in the Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2009 and in "Illuminati: Working with Light", Eclipse Mill Gallery, 2009. She is represented in many private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL and the National Gallery of Prague.

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