Marsha McDonald
medium: painting
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 Last Night, Light 2005 Painting |
 River Dusk Blue 2005 Painting |
 Flooded Field 2005 Painting |
 Mulde 2005 Painting |
 Horicon 2005 Painting |
 Wood Light 2005 Painting |
Contact information
515 E. Pleasant St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone Number: 414-225-9259
Email Address: marsham6@gmail.com
Artist statement
My paintings are intimate explorations of the landscape, the "spiritual interferences" that surround actual places, and the kinds of light resonances these places inspire in me. I continue to explore light as both phenomenon and metaphor. I am interested in 19th and 20th century spirit photography of Europe and America, not as supernatural documents, but as curiously intriguing objects of the cultural desire for numinous, enigmatic experiences. I am also deeply influenced by the writings of Emerson, Muir and modern poetry.
"How do you approach nature directly? Look, between us that tree there is a space, an atmosphere, we agree."--Paul Cezanne
"When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, surrounding it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever touching its substance directly."--Marcel Proust
Biography
Born: Toledo, Ohio. Education: Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Selected Exhibitions:
2006, Small Works, Chandler Fine Arts, San Francisco
2005, New Work, Eden, Milwaukee, Wis.
Drawing Closer To Home,Elaine Erickson Gallery, Milwaukee
One On One, Seven Stories Institute, Jersey City, NJ
Annual Members Show, WPCA, WI
Invitational,Elaine Erickson, WI
Representation:
Art Source L.A., Inc., Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Eden, Milwaukee, Wis.
Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco
Elaine Erickson Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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