Marie Schepis

As an avid do-it-yourselfer - I grew up in a family of renovators and learned from an early age how to plaster, paint, do construction and use various hand and power tools for many tasks. My early interest in drawing and painting also incorporated the skills I had learned throughout my life and I evolved into a mixed-media artist. The idea that found objects could be added to oil and acrylic paintings has been a major theme of my work. Often, those objects are the basis for the work and lead to their eventual conclusion.

The New School University, Creative Arts Therapy Certificate; City College of New York, AAS Degree, majoring in Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum Art School; The Art Students League; additional studio art classes in sculpture, ceramics, carpentry, faux finishing.

Member of Ward Nasse Gallery, Soho New York, 1995 - 2016, exhibiting in their Year Round Salon Shows; Member of Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) 1995 - present, exhibiting in four group shows yearly at the Red Hook, Brooklyn Waterfront Warehouse location; Member of Women in the Arts Foundation, New York City, exhibiting in group shows at various venues throughout the City since 2000. I have also participated in the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit twice yearly from 1985-1992.