Marilyn Fenn

BIO
Born Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Grew up in Dallas, TX; lives in Austin, TX.

Marilyn Fenn creates non-objective paintings with a focus on color, line, shape, and space. Working in oil, acrylic, encaustic or mixed media, she explores how paint inhabits and defines a surface. The common thread throughout all of Marilyn's work is her unerring sense of color.

Marilyn's work is self-informing: she begins with a basic idea, a color and a brushstroke or two, and then each stroke leads to the next. The process is organic and evolutionary, allowing the work to take on a life of its own. She is as much watching it happen as she is making it happen.

Though non-objective, the work often includes references to things in the real world that interest Marilyn, from the micro to the macro, from DNA and cellular structure to nebulae and the universe, and the various populations therein.

Marilyn has exhibited her work in juried and invitational local and national exhibitions, and is collected in private collections across the country and abroad. She is a member of several art organizations, including Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin Museum of Art, The Blanton Museum of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni As...

EDUCATION
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
1989 Austin Community College, AA, Fine Art

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009 The E-word: Recent Work of Marilyn Fenn, Bay6 Gallery and Studios, Austin, TX
2006 Abstract Paintings and Prints of Marilyn Fenn, Quack’s Maplewood, Austin, TX
2005-2006 Artwork of Marilyn Fenn, Austin Regional Clinic at Far West, Austin, TX
2004 Paintings and Prints of Marilyn Fenn, Austin Java Co., Barton Creek Mall, Austin, TX
2003 Art Without a Safety Net, solo virtual art exhibit sponsored by Salem Design
2003 Artwork of Marilyn Fenn, AVAA Exhibit at Carr America, Austin,TX
2003 Art in the Country, with Kelly Borsheim, Borsheim Arts, Cedar Creek, TX
1990 Marilyn Fenn: Paintings and Drawings, Execucom Systems Corporation, Austin, TX

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Guest artist in the For the Love of Art Exhibition, Austin Art Space, Austin, TX
2011-2012 2011 People’s Gallery Exhibition in Austin City Hall, Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
2011 5 x 7 Art Splurge & Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
2010 East Austin Studio Tour: Cherrywood Artists, Vortex Theater, Austin, TX
2010 AVAA Members Show, Studio 2 Gallery, Austin, TX
2009 History and Hot Wax: Encaustic Art, Museo Gallery at Great Hills, Austin, TX
2009 Working in Wax, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, C...