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Manhattan Arts Gallery
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Tropics I
oil on canvas, 24" x 28" |
New York/Hats III
oil on canvas, 18" x 14" |
Brooklyn Bridge I
oil on canvas, 22" x 28"
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Luna
oil on canvas, 36" x 36" |
New York/Hats I
oil on canvas, 11" x 14"
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Roses
oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
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Artist Profile
Marlene
Zimmerman's work has been described as sensuous, mythic, flooded
with color, and having a sense of whimsy. Her cameos of women mirror
her own joie de vivre. She began her art education at Brooklyn
College, studying under the renowned abstract artist Jimmy Ernst,
son of the Dada/Surrealist master Max Ernst. He was a strong source
of motivation and encouragement. Through the years she continued
her studies at the New School, Parsons and The Art Students League,
in New York, NY.
Her first one-person exhibition was in 1996, which initiated a series
of subsequent successful exhibitions. Since then Zimmerman has curated
and shown in numerous group shows in Manhattan, including several
of them at the Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts. Additional exhibitions include those at Broome Street Gallery
and the prestigious Pen and Brush, in addition to other venues throughout
the East Coast.
Her work is in many private collections throughout the U.S. She
received the Award of Excellence from Manhattan Arts International
in 2004 and an Award of Merit in 2003 from that organization. The
jurors were lured by Zimmerman's intense and luminescent color palette
and the unbridabled expression in her work.
Praise
for Marlene Zimmerman
"Marlene Zimmerman is an exponent of the singular image known
for flatly painted figures and vibrant colors. One of Zimmerman's
delightfully zany oils depicts a woman with bright yellow hair who
looks like a femme fatale out of a Dick Tracy comic strip, set against
a hot purple Brooklyn Bridge."
Peter Wiley, Gallery & Studio magazine
"The
vibrantly colorful, hard-edged yet expressive cartoon inflected
portrait heads of Marlene Zimmerman are uniquely appealing."
Byron Coleman, Gallery & Studio magazine
"Marlene
Zimmerman has her own refreshing sense of whimsy, which enlivens
her oil of a goddess-like face amid a sprinkling of stars, among
other fanciful subjects. Zimmerman is an eccentric talent whose
pictures have a new age quality somewhere between Henri Matisse
and Peter Max."
Wilson Wong, Gallery & Studio magazine
"In
her one-person show at La Mama La Galleria, what is clear is that
the themes and symbols that pervade Zimmerman's paintings bear fruit
for the imagination. They are aesthetically beautiful and poetic."
Gordon Dane, Manhattan Arts International magazine
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