Survival Painting

Marlene Siff was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. She was an art honors student at the eponymous High School of Music and Art (now LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center). She graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. degree majoring in Fine Arts, and was elected to Kappa Pi, the Honorary Arts Society. Marlene Siff's work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad. Selected exhibitions include Scope Art Miami, Katonah Museum of Art, Embraer Executive Jets Showroom, Eastern Kentucky University, Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, National Institutes of Health, Bergdorf Goodman, Columbia/Barnard University, Walter Wickiser Gallery, University of Texas, Calvin Charles Gallery, Premium Lounge of American Airlines at Miami International Airport, Red Dot Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Times Square Billboard Premiere Event, Arts Westchester, The Aldrich Museum, Attleboro Arts Museum, Mattatuck Museum, and The New Britain Museum of American Art. Marlene's assemblage, Fallen Heroes Afghanistan, is on exhibition in Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes' office at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Her painting Peace/War is part of the permanent collection of the B'Nai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington DC and her work on paper Pluie et Soleil is on permanent exhibition in the Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell University. Marlene's painting Staccato and 6 framed maquettes were on exhibition in 2018, with a paid honorarium, in the corporate headquarters lobby of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown, NY. Marlene was featured in an episode of Creative Women Today, on CT Cablevision, and selected to appear in Years In The Making, a documentary film by Martin West. In May 2018 Marlene was chosen to be featured in a short film to celebrate a selection of women from the arts community in Westport, CT. Entitled 13 Women, the film was produced by the Westport Arts Center for the Hall of Femme Gala. The September/October 2018 20th Anniversary issue of Westport Magazine features Marlene as one of "9 active artists that you must know now." Since 2014 Marlene has been juried into 80 competitions throughout the United States and has won 28 awards. Marlene Siff works in her home-based studio in Westport, CT.