Artist MARJORIE SAYER
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Biography
Marjorie Sayer’s goal is to explore ways to experiment with the figure and landscape in different spatial relationships. She wants the figure to exist and be recognizable but gradually become more abstract by bold strokes of color and gesture. The finished paintings are a result of numerous layers of paint creating a sense of tension between areas of lightness and heaviness, having human forms that seem to emerge, then disappear. “I love the expressive tactile quality that I arrive at by using Impasto oil paint applied with a palette knife. The creation of the painting is rapid and the result is texture and exhilaration,“ she says. Her response to both the figure and to landscape is immediate. It is visceral. Charcoal highlights the gesture in mark making. She says that landscapes are another matter; they embrace the ground, sky, barns and are joyful and rich with color.
Ms. Sayer received her BFA from Cornell University, with a semester abroad at the University of Florence, Italy. She studied for her Masters in History of Art at NYU and the University of Munich, Germany; painted at Arts Student League in NYC. She studied at the DeCordova Member of the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota and Chair of Programs for the Women Contemporary University, Ithaca, NY June 2003
Cambridge Health Associates, MA June 2007
Windham Art Gallery: Abstract Group Show July 2007
Inner Rhythms November 2007
Black and White January 2008
Works on Paper April 2008
Latchis Hotel, Brattleboro December 2007-February 2008
ILLUMINATIONS, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cancer Center June-September 2008
C X Silver Gallery Brattleboro VT November 2008
Adagio, Brattleboro, VT December 2008-January 2009
West Brattleboro Meeting House June-July 2009
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