INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL OF miniature ART

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Statement: I am concerned with communicating a sense of harmony, balance, order and spirituality. We are all confronted on a daily basis with the fragmentation of our non-linear lives, trying, as in a puzzle, to make the pieces fit together to make sense of it all. My paintings, works on paper, and sculpture depict imagery of personal events and psychological issues. They are expressed through geometric shapes, color, light, space, texture, edges and movement each interplaying with one another engaging the viewer to participate. Most recently, I have embarked on a series of white paintings that abandon my signature bold palette. These paintings, from the "Elements of Peace" series, pay homage to people who have been affected by war. White is soft, quiet, spiritual, unadorned and full of infinite possibilities. My intention is to create an architectural space for rest, retreat, connection, reflection and identification. The multi-dimensionality and multi-layering of my work reference what one must uncover to penetrate the illusions of reality and reach the mystery and essence of the soul.

Bio: Marlene Siff has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC (2011), Columbia/Barnard University, NY (2011), Katonah Museum of Art, NY (2009), the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC (1998), the Aldrich Museum, CT (1992), and Galerie Musée in Nagoya, Japan (1994). Her work has been sought out by major corporate and private collections around the United States, most recently for the Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell University. She was featured in an episode of Creative Women Today, on CT Cablevision (2010), and selected to appear in Years in the Making, a documentary film by Martin West (2009). Siff was born and raised in the Bronx. She graduated from the eponymous High School of Music and Art in New York (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center), and went on to major in art at Hunter College, where she received her B.A. and was elected to Kappa Pi, the International Honorary Art Fraternity.

Resumé: Solo Exhibitions
2012 Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, Elements Of Peace
2010 Creative Women Today, CT Cablevision Channel 88 and Charter Channel 21CTV
30 minute TV program sponsored by The National League of American Pen Women, Fairfield County Branch, CT
2010 Katonah Museum of Art Online Gallery, Katonah, NY
2009 Katonah Museum Artists’ Association, Private Studio Tour, Westport, CT
2007 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Rosenthal Gallery at Rich Forum, Stamford, CT
1999 The Lobby Gallery of The Durst Organization, Descriptive Geometries NY, NY
1999 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1998 Mitchells, Westport, CT
1995 Westport Arts Center, Lobby Gallery, Westport, CT
1995 Park Place, Stamford, CT
1994 Temple Israel, Westport, CT
1993 Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
1990 Connecticut National Bank Headquarters, Norwalk, CT
1989 Paul Mellon Art Center at Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
(Centennial Celebration)
1987 Connecticut Public Television Gallery 24, Hartford, CT
1987 Segal Gallery, New York, NY
 

Group Exhibitions
2014 Westport Artists’ Collective “All-Member Pop Up Show”
2014 Artoteque Annual Online Gallery Juried Exhibition 2014-2015, Work On Display
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 16th Annual Collage, Digital & Mixed Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition
2014 Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT, The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water (Juror Sophia Gevas Director of Outreach Education at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT and Co-Founder of Loft Artists Association)
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 11th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition
2014 Atlantic Works Gallery The Biennial Project, Boston, MA The Boston Biennial 3
2014 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, Art Café Artists Talks, 2014 SOLOS Exhibition
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 16th Annual Judeo-Christian Juried Online International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2014 Art Addiction Online Gallery, MAB3 / Art Addiction Media 3. Art Biennial 2014-2016
2014 Art Addiction Online Gallery, COLLAGE / Art Addiction Annual 2014-2015
2014 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Neoteric Abstract, SlowArt Productions
2014 Westport Arts Center, Westport CT, SOLOS 2014, (Juror Patricia Hickson)
2014 Embraer Executive Jets, Executive Showroom, Melbourne, FL, "History and Geography", February 1, 2014 - May 31, 2014
2013 Art Basel - Miami Beach, FL, Red Dot Art Fair, (exhibitor Art Essex Gallery)
2013 The Premium Lounge of American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia Airlines, Central Terminal E (E Concourse), Miami International Airport, Miami, FL, (sponsored by Embler Art Gallery), November 2013 - March 2014
2013 See.Me, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, New York, The Story of the Creative
2013 Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 56th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of Contemporary Art, (Juror, Janne Siren, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
2013 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Art Biologic, SlowArt Productions
2012 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, Local Color, Defying Boundaries (Juror, Diana Kamin, Curator at Whitney Museum, NYC)
2012 National Steinbeck Center Museum, Salinas, CA, Honoring Women's Rights: Visual Voices Together (Jurors, Dr. Joyce Aiken, Dr. Ruth Weisberg and Patricia Rodriguez)
2012 The Times Square Billboard Premier Event, Art Takes Times Square, Times Square, New York City (click to view)
2012 Katonah Museum of Art, (viewing at Stamford Artists Association, Stamford, CT), Total Recall, (Juror, Leslee Asch, Executive Director, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT)
2012 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 14th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2012 Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich CT, 95th Annual Juried Exhibition, (Juror, Marla Prather, Curator Nineteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2012 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Art to the Point: Tri-State Juried Exhibition, (Juror, Donald Sultan)
2012 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 14th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2011 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 13th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography and Print Juried Online International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2011 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 11th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online Int'l Exhibition
2011 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, Splash, (Juror, Marianne Brunson Frisch)
2011 ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, A Spin on Green
2011 Art About Town, Westport, CT
2011 Fairfield Public Library, Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT, Dialogue in Color, (Juror, Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, ARC Fine Art, LLC)
2011 Kraft Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, JWAN Nat'l Juried Exhibition, Sanctuaries In Time, (Juror, Dr. Maya Balakirsky Katz, PhD., Prof. Art History, Touro College)
2010 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 8th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online Int'l Exhibition
2010 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT Summer, (Juror, Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator Asian Art at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY)
2010 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT Juxtapositions, (Juror, Neil Watson, Executive Director of the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY)
2010 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 12th Annual Juried Online Int'l Exhibition
2009 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY, Dreams and Metaphors
2009 Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY, Katonah Museum Art Association, Exhibition #15
2009 Westport Historical Society, Sheffer Gallery, Westport, CT
2009 Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT, Hidden Garden Tour (also included studio tour)
2009 Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT, Documentary Film, Years In The Making (first showing)
2009 Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2009 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Contemporary Confrontations, (Juror, Nan Rosenthal, retired Senior Consultant Contemporary Art Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2009 National September 11th Memorial Museum, Artists Registry Virtual Art Gallery
2008 Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2008 The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
2008 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2008 The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2007 Art Now Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2007 Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT (Juror, Dede Young, Curator Neuberger Museum)
2006 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services Art Show, Westport, CT
2004 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2003 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2003 River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT
2002 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2002 River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT
2001 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2000 Studio Tour, Sponsored by the Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1998 B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
1996 Whitney Gallery, Westport, CT
1995 Reece Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Share Gallery, Funibashi, Japan
1995 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1994 Galerie Début, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Galerie Musée, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Wave Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1994 Joel Kessler Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Art Miami International Exposition, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Boston Corporate Art, Boston, MA
1993 American Society of Interior Designers National Headquarters, Washington, DC
1993 The Michael Stone Collection, McLean, VA