Marcy Edelstein

ARTIST STATEMENT: My objective is as an artist is to create a visual language about transformation that speaks to the viewer directly through the strength and presence of its form and structure. I work with a fundamentally abstract language that is deeply informed by biology and natural history. My current work examines on a very personal level the ways in which advances in science have radically altered our relationship to nature. The drawings conjoin disparate elements, biological, mechanical, and architectural, to create anomalous structures that could be imagined as the outcome of science gone awry. Word fragments that intrude upon the picture plane include both personal observations about gardening and the weather, as well as references to gene technologies that are dramatically transforming food production.

PROCESS: Drawing has always played a central role in my creative process. It is as much an end in and of itself as a means for developing ideas for sculptural work. Early in my career I was strongly influenced by the abstract surrealists and expressionists, artists concerned with transformation and the imagination. I developed a process of abstracting from life and creating new, unexpected forms, a process that conti...

MFA University of Iowa, School of Art, Iowa City, Iowa; 1976
MA University of Iowa, School of Art, Iowa City, Iowa; 1975
BA Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; 1972

STEAM: Fitton Center for the Arts, Hamilton, OH, 2018
Text, Type and Topography: Marymount California
University, San Pedro, CA; 2017
Animals/Botanicals: The Point, Bronx, NY; 2015-16
Access to Art: BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY 2014
Solo Exhibition: Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY;
2009
Illuminating Developments: SUNY Brockport, Brockport,
NY 2005
Group Shows: BAAD Exhibition Space and The POINT,
NY 2005, 2003, 2001
Group Show: Storage Space Gallery, Bronx, NY 2003
Reflections in Clay: Bronx River Art Center and Gallery,
Bronx, NY; 2003
The Third Dimension: Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY;
2000
Bigger Than Life: Bronx River Art Center and Gallery,
Bronx, NY; 1997
Solo Exhibition: Salena Gallery, Long Island U.,
Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY; 1995
Rally, The Flag Show: Bronx River Art Center and
Gallery, Bronx, NY; 1995
Artist-in-Residence Exhibition: Roswell Museum and Art
Center, Roswell, NM; 1994
Three Person Drawing Exhibition: Condeso/Lawler
Gallery, New York City, NY; 1993
Solo Exhibition: Window on Main Street
Exhibition/Installation Space, Brooklyn, NY; 1992
New York Collection: Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY;
1991–92
AMMO Gallery, Drawi...