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STATEMENT
I have worked for many years with layered imagery and materials, and with multiple levels of meaning in my work. My approach is poetic, perhaps romantic. I am interested in the relation of the inner world to the outer world, in how I respond emotionally and physically to an idea, a place, a person or occurrence, and in how I can translate that mixture of inner and outer reality into art. When is a place or an idea so resonant and compelling as to require my devotion to it? That is what I go for.
The encaustic medium has been my medium of choice for the past three years. It allows me to draw on my traditional drawing and painting background, and to work with my preferred tactile approach, building up layers of opaque and translucent paint, carving, inscribing, embedding, and transferring images directly into the beeswax based paint. The paint has a sensuous quality, lending itself to a painterly approach, and the colors are vibrant and luminous.
The work shown here is inspired by a place near the Blue Ridge Mountains where I spend time every few years. In the mornings my eyes trace the line of the Blue Ridge, undulating across the horizon. In the afternoons I walk past a line of ancient boxwood trees, watch the slant of sun, and greet the horses and cows in the fields. Twice a day a train passes nearby, whistling its way down to Lynchburg. Birds waft overhead in front of an expanse of clouds. This is not the world of metal, concrete, constant hurry, worry, and violence that exists at the same time. Here, I feel I am in “another world.” But it is not other. It is right here, right now.
The experience of the sacred can happen anywhere, at any time. For me, it happens most often when I am deeply quiet, alone, and in nature. The earth at those times seems to speak to me. This experience is beyond words. It has inspired these paintings from the series called Sacred Ground.
Marilyn Banner
7502 Flower Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-891-6844
marilynbanner@verizon.net
www.marilynbanner.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND MAJOR INSTALLATIONS |
2009 |
Delaplaine Center for the Arts/ Frederick, MD |
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CERES Gallery/New York, NY |
2008 |
Georgetown University Lombardi Center/Wash. DC |
2006 |
Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA
Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD |
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2005 |
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Wash. DC |
2004 |
Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington, DC |
2003 |
Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center/Fairfax, VA |
2002 |
Paul Peck Humanities Institute/Montgomery College/Rockville, MD |
2001 |
CERES/New York, NY |
2000 |
Greenbelt Arts Center/Greenbelt, MD |
1998 |
Shepherd College/Shepherdstown, WV
CERES/New York, NY
Georgetown University Lombardi Center/Wash. DC |
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1997 |
ArtSpace/Richmond, VA |
1996 |
CERES/New York, NY |
1994 |
Glenview Mansion Gallery/Rockville, MD |
1993 |
CERES/New York, NY
Loyola College Art Gallery/Baltimore, MD
District of Columbia Arts Center/Washington, DC |
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1990 |
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center/Laurel, MD
C.A.G.E./Cincinnati, OH |
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1988 |
School 33/Baltimore, MD
Gallery 10/Wash. DC |
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1986 |
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania/Edinboro, PA
Capital Center Gallery/Lanham, MD |
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AWARDS/ HONORS/ FELLOWSHIPS |
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Fellowship Residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA |
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2000 |
Inclusion in Who's Who of American Women, 57 th ed. |
1999 |
Corinne Mitchell Award, Women's Caucus for Art/DC Area chapter |
1990 |
Best of Show Cash Award/Matrix Gallery/Sacramento, CA |
1986 |
Best of Show/MLK Gallery Washington, DC |
1982 |
MSEd Thesis with Honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
1967 |
Provincetown Workshop Scholarship, Provincetown, MA |
1964 |
Full Scholarship, Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO |
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Am Kolel Sanctuary, Bealsville, MD; Episcopal Senior Ministries, Chevy Chase, MD; Sheppard Pratt, Baltimore MD; Embassy of Costa Rica, Wash DC; B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Wash DC; Community for Creative Nonviolence, Wash. DC; House of Ruth, Wash. DC; The National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center, Wash. DC; Calvary Women's Center, Washington DC; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia PA; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA; Green Acres School, Rockville MD; Over 100 private collections, US and Europe
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Washington University (BFA 1968); Queens College, CUNY (1968-69); Montgomery College; University of Maryland; Massachusetts College of Art (MSEd 1982); Corcoran School of Art; R&F Encaustics |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2009 |
Personal Armor: Artists Look at Aprons, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA T. Van Dyke, Curator |
2008 |
On the Edge, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Laura Moriarty, Juror
My Space on 7th/Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
VMRC National Juried Show, Harrisonburg, VA
The Fine Art of Freedom, Baltimore JCC, Baltimore, MD Claudine Davison, Curator
Letter Carriers, Shooting Star Gallery, Suffolk VA Trudi Van Dyke, curator
New Work, Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD 3 person show |
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2007 |
The Box Show , Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD (invitational)
Words/ Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (juried)
My Space on 7 th / Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Art on Paper /MFA Gallery, Annapolis, MD Helen Frederick, Juror
Words Within /Barnard-Columbia University, Laura Kruger, juror
Words Within / Rubin Frankel Gallery, Boston, MA, Laura Kruger, juror
Of Doors and Keys / Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD Claudine Davison, Curator |
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2006 |
What Are You Looking At? Sub-Basement, Baltimore, MD (invitational) |
2004 |
In 2 Words/ / Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA Krystyna Wasserman, Juror
Secrets of the Alephbet: The Mystical DNA / Baltimore JCC, Baltimore. MD
Constellation / CERES Gallery, NYC
The Song of Songs /Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD |
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2003 |
The Art of Aging / Hebrew Union College, NYC Laura Kruger, Curator
All Dolled Up Again ( installation) Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
The Soul's Journey Through the Bible / Washington Theological Union, Wash, DC
Identity and Memory / Embassy of the Czech Republic, Wash, DC (2 person show)
Creation / Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD |
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2002 |
Honoring the Ancestors / Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL
Bible on the Wall / Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
Angels and Messengers / Ratner Museum, Bethesda. MD |
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2001 |
Visual Miidrash1 and Visual Midrash 2/ Ratner Museum, Bethesda. MD |
2000 |
Way Off the Rack /Ellipse Art Center/, Arlington, VA Trudy Van Dyke, Curator
Group show / Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI Betsy Damon, Juror |
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1998 |
Women / Kunstlerforum/ Frauen Museum/ Bonn, Germany
Abstracted/ Figured/ Exposed / School 33, Baltimore, MD (juried)
Power Objects in the Here and Now / Government House, Annapolis, MD (juried) |
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1996 |
Mysticism in Jewish Art / B'nai B'rith National Jewish Museum, Wash, DC Ori Soltes, Curator
Recycled and More / Pyramid Atlantic, Wash, DC invitational
Global Focus / National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wash. DC |
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1995 |
Global Focus /Beijing, China and Moscow, Russia
The Six Directions / Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD Curator, Gary Irby |
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1994 |
The Realm of Myth / Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD |
1992 |
Operation Forward / National Museum of Women in the Arts/Wash., DC (performance) |
1991 |
At the Crosshairs / Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Uncensored / District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC |
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1990 |
Bones / Brody's Gallery, Wash, DC (invitational)
Works in Process / University of Maryland Gallery, College Park, MD
Sacred Cows / Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA Park, MD (juried)
Matrix International / Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA (juried)
Visions / Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY |
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1987 |
A Prayer for Planet Earth /Art Barn Gallery, Wash. DC
New Horizons / Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY Donald Kuspit, Juror |
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1985 |
Jewish Women: How We See Ourselves / Sarnoff Gallery, Chicago, IL. (juried)
Birth/ Creation / Washington Women's Art Center, Wash, DC (juried)
Ambiguous Relationships / Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Bethesda, MD (juried) |
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1984 |
The Goddess Show/ Washington Women's Art Center, Wash, DC (juried) |
1983 |
Ritz Collaborative Artists' Project / Old Ritz Hotel, Wash, DC
Retrospectives/ Bryce Gallery/ Phila., PA and NCHP Gallery, Wash, DC Mary Garrard, Juror |
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Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY
Authentic Art Consultants
Benfield Gallery, Severna Park, MD |
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2007 : Art Salon Presentation, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Wash. DC; Panelist: ”State of the Arts”, BannerArts, Kensington, MD; Encaustic demonstration, Washington Musica Viva, Kensington, MD 2005: Juror's Art/Critique: Montgomery County Artists Assoc., Bethesda MD 2004: Slide Lecture: Springfield Art Guild, Springfield VA 2002: 4 lectures at Paul Peck Humanities Institute, Montgomery College, Rockville MD 2001: Lectures: Washington Musica Viva, Kensington MD/ Greenbelt Community. Center, Greenbelt MD 2000: Lectures and/or slide presentations at Ellipse Art Center, Arlington VA/ Artomatic, Wash. DC/ Shepherd College, Shepherdstown WV/ Georgetown University, Wash. DC/ Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD / Nat'l Society of Arts and Letters/ Wash. DC Mariposa, College Park, MD/ Kensington Library, Kensington, MD 1999: Slide Lecture/ Washington Musica Viva, Kensington, MD 1998: Slide Lecture/ Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV 1996: Artist-Curator Dialogue/ National Jewish Museum, Wash DC Slide Lecture/ Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Slide Lecture/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Slide Lecture/ Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD Slide Lecture/ Oasis Center, Wash. DC Slide Lecture and class/ National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wash DC 1995: Panel on The Six Directions/ Montgomery College, Takoma Park MD 1993: Lecture/ Mansion Art Gallery, Rockville, MD Lecture/District of Columbia Arts Center, Wash DC 1991 : Lecture/ Jewish Community Center, Rockville, MD 1989: Slide Lecture/ Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter, PA 1988: Slide Lecture/ Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring MD 1986 Slide Lecture/ Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro PA 1983: Lecture/Church of the Savior, Wash DC 1982: Slide Lecture/ Mass. College of Art, Boston MA |
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2009: In the Brushstrokes, Washington Post/March 19 : Listening to the Paint’s Music, August 6, review by Menachem Wecker in the Jewish Press; Searching for Oneness with the One: Mysticism in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions by Ori Z. Soltes. publ: Rowman and Littlefield 2007: Zeek Magazine, Fall/Winter Edition, art work published ; April 18, Jewish Press: Review by Menachem Wecker ; Three “Music Memory” images reproduced in Mutuality Magazine; 2005: February / reproduction of Terezin #12 in Presence, An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 2003 May/June/Cover Illustration/ Journal of the American Pharmacists Association; JAPhA article “Angel of the First Heaven #3" by Suzanne Scott and Lynne Constantine 2002 The Kali Guide by Stelli Munis (work reproduced from Scenes of Childhood and Ladders of Light ); “Fixing it and Fitting in: Contemporary Jewish American Women Artists ” by Ori Z. Soltes, in Women and Judaism, ed. Leonard Greenspoon and Bryan Le Beau Image/ Bible Review /Bethesda, MD 2001 Montgomery Cable TV interview/September Washington Post / January 2000 "Spirituality Into a New Millennium: Mysticism in Jewish Art" by Ori Soltes in Studies in Jewish Civilization, ed. L. Greenspoon and R. Simkins Inclusion in Who's Who of American Women/ 57 th Edition 1999 The Montgomery Gazette/ Bethesda, MD/July The Montgomery Gazette / Bethesda, MD/ August 1998: Calendar of the National Jewish Museum (work reproduced) Quirks/ Montgomery County, MD/ November The Picket / Shepherdstown, WVA/ September The Bethesda Gazette / July The Montgomery Gazette / FebruaryBaltimore City Paper /February 1997: Marilyn Banner Artist/ Montgomery Cable TV; Visions International Poetry Review (cover art) 1996: Lila Snow's Art Scene / Montgomery Cable TV/April Catalog essay/ Mysticism in Jewish Art /National Jewish Museum/ Wash. DC/ Women Today/ March 1995 Montgomery Magazine / Bethesda, MD/ November 1994: ArtStrokes : Marilyn Banner/ Montgomery Cable TV; Washington Post / November Washington Citizen / November The Engendered Artist / (unpublished) thesis manuscript by Juli Staiano/ University of Maryland/ College Park, MD 1993: Baltimore Jewish Week /January Eyewash / Wash. DC The Emerging Eye / Washington DC/ April Art In Progress / Baltimore, MD/January / The Intowner, Wash. DC/April Baltimore Jewish Week /January Baltimore City Paper /January 1991: WPFW Radio , interview on Arts Beat, Wash. DC Swedish Radio/ interview/ broadcast in Sweden Washington Post /February 1990: Sacramento Bee/ Sacramento, CA Dialogue /Arts in the Midwest/ September 1988: Influence -The Arts in Baltimore/ Baltimore, MD/October Evening Sun / Baltimore MD/ September Morning Sun / Baltimore, MD/ September 1987: Washington Post / July 1984: Washington Women's Art Center News / April Washington Review of the Arts / Wash. DC 1983 : Washington Post /March |
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2009: Art Instructor, Art for the People, Silver Spring MD; IB Examiner, local high schools 2008: Faculty, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD; Art Instructor, Community Visions, Silver Spring, MD ; Examiner, International Baccalaureate Program ; 2007: Juror, Haimovicz Visual Arts Award, Montgomery County, MD 1998- 2007: Co-Director and Board Member , Washington Musica Viva Arts and Performance Project, Greater Washington DC Area 2007: Faculty , Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD Art Instructor, Beth Chai, Bethesda, MD Art Instructor, Community Visions, Silver Spring, MD ; 2006: Curator, Strong Work Hot Topics / Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD 2006 and 2007 : Examiner , International Baccalaureate Organization, Greater Wash DC area high schools 2001- 2006: East Coast Regional Coordinator , No Limits for Women in the Arts 2005: Juror , Montgomery County Art Association annual show 1995-2005: Art Instructor , Montgomery County Alternative Programs, Kensington MD 2000-2007 Art instructor , Noyes School of Rhythm, Portland CT 2004- 2006: Staff , Art for the People, Wash DC 1987- 2002 Group Leader , No Limits for Women in the Arts, Wash DC; 2000: Juror , Maryland College of Art and Design Senior Show Awards 1994 Curator , Frankly Female / The Collector, Wash DC 1993-1997: Teacher , Awakening Creativity/ Banner Studio/ Aspen Hill, MD 1993: Panel Chair , Difficult Images, Difficult Issues / WCA National Conference, Seattle, WA 1992: Juror , BEAMS 8 State Regional Exhibition/ BAUHouse, Balto. MD 1991 : Conference Co-chair , Expanding Visions , Women's Caucus for Art National Conference, Wash DC 1984-6: Board Member , Washington Women's Art Center, Wash. DC 1985 Co-chair , Birth Creation Show / WWAC, Wash DC 1974-76 and 1983-93: Art instructor , Green Acres School, Rockville MD |
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