Marilyn Kirsch
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Communications of Sea Creatures, 2012
Oil on canvas
70 X 56 inches -
The Ochre Sea, Field Notes Series, 2011
Oil on canvas
56 X 60 inches -
The Mask, 1/10, 2011
Digital c-print gallery mounted in plexiglass
30 X 20 inches -
Standing In Kip's Bay, 1/10, 2011
Digital c-print gallery mounted in plexiglass
30 X 20 inches -
Taxi Yellow, 1/10, 2011
Digital c-print gallery mounted in plexiglass
30 X 20 inches -
A Sand Map, Field Notes Series, 2010
Oil on canvas
56 X 60 inches -
Archeology 2, 2007
Oil on canvas
18 X 18 inches -
Archeology 3, 2007
Oil on canvas
18 X 18 inches -
The Book of Earth and Fire, Four Elements Series, 2010
Oil on canvas
112 X 72 inches -
City Reclaimed by Birds, Worn City Series, 2009
Oil on canvas
64 X 60 inches -
Body of Water, 2012
Oil on canvas
56 X 60 inches -
Clouds Along the Way, 2013
Oil on canvas
70 X 56 inches -
And She Walked By So Fast, 1/10, 2011
Digital c-print gallery mounted in plexiglass
30 X 20 inches
Artist Statement
My work is somewhere between abstract and completely non-objective. At times there seem to be recognizable images in my paintings, but these images lack definite boundaries and oscillate between possibilities.
I am interested in the tension that occurs when perception is not absolutely clear. I like images that are ambiguous, for example, those that appear simultaneously vast and minute or distant and close. I utilize both a control of the medium and an allowance for the accidental. Shifts of the image occur while I work 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.
With the ideas of ambiguity and perception in mind, I have also been investigating how meaning can be found where it is not intended. Totally random marks of paint can seem to be images of real things, like finding pictures in the clouds.
