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This group of paintings includes triangular images, long used as compositional elements in my paintings, circular paintings, and paintings that include Asemic Writing. Both the tondos and studies in Asemic writing can comprise triptychs. This body of work was first shown in a solo show at Red Dot Gallery, Sacramento, California, USA, curated by Robert Jean Ray in 2013 and in a four artist invitational group show, "Works on Paper", Galerie Doxa, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, curated by David Urban in 2014. All are intimately scaled acrylic paintings on paper. It is an ongoing series and there are new additions for 2015. The tondos are being shown in Croatia for the first time. Many of the tondos include references to Asemic Writing.
Willie Marlowe has shown paintings in solo and invitational exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is included in museum, university, corporate and private collections, and has been supported by grants from Artist’s Space, NYC, and by numerous Strategic Opportunity Stipend awards from the New York Foundation on the Arts. She has been a visiting artist in Barbados, West Indies, in Cortona, Italy, and in Wexford, Ireland, where she had a ten year retrospective exhibition at the Wexford Arts Center.
She taught painting and drawing in the Department of Visual Arts, The Sage College of Albany, and has taught watercolor in two of The Sage Colleges’ international studies programs, “Sage at Oxford”, Somerville College, Oxford University, and “Celtic Connections” in Scotland and Ireland. She has had two sabbatical leaves to paint in 1986 and 2005. She is now Professor Emerita, The Sage Colleges.
Her work is informed by travel, going to museums and archaeological sites in Europe, the Yucatan and Russia. She often works on intimately scaled acrylic paintings on paper. Her luminous surfaces are achieved by using an intense palette and successive layers of translucent glazes.
Atelier Cres, Milana Smokvine Tvrdog 4, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
