Marie Gardeski

A kitten (or baby tiger) batting at a leaf. Practicing to kill. A little girl holding and scolding babies in grocery store checkout lanes. Reading nutrition facts.

For future reference.

Some scenarios may seem innocent enough, but upon closer inspection unmistakable sadness becomes apparent. Through drawing, painting and installation marie explores relationships between humor and the uncanny. She creates familiar yet disturbing scenes, sometimes involving violence, usually evoking pathos. Characters appear and reappear.

Never learning lessons.

Marie grew up in Michigan. She currently lives in Indiana with her husband david birkey.

BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art

2016
Late Summer Exhibit - Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia, MO

2015
Perspective - Juror: Cory Oberndorfer, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC

Works on Paper - Juror: Carter E. Foster, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ

Exquisite Corpse - Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

For The Birds - Invitational - Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2014
Summer Exhibit - 8 Women - PS Gallery, Columbia MO
Untitled 10 - Annual Juried Show - Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Shifting Threads - Fiber Installation Invitational - Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2013
Art Party - Crestwoods Gallery, Roanoke, IN

2012
The Fort - Installation invitational - Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2009
Green - Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

Summer Set: Home Made - Club Soda, Fort Wayne, IN

7th Regional Exhibition - Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2008
Staring Contest: David Birkey, Marie Gardeski & Thomas Woods - SOMA Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

Fantasmagoria - Above the Thirsty Camel, Fort Wayne, IN

2007
Sashion Flow - Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Untitled 5 - Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneap...