ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist, I am a visual storyteller. Art is my voice where I create visual puzzles with purposeful ambiguity. The intent is for the viewer to become involved and react. A curator has described my artwork as smart and thoughtful and dense with information; gorgeous with color. Mysterious and challenging…puzzles for the viewer to solve. This is my passion – to communicate emotion through visual media. There is nothing I love more than the challenge of creating artwork with a message.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
My work has been juried and accepted by museum curators, gallery owners, educators and national/international artists including: 2023 North American Print Biennial juried by Elizabeth M. Rudy (Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, Boston MA); Dubuque Museum of Art 2023 Biennial juried by Pamela Hugdahl (Executive Director, Rochester Art Center); Rockford Art Museum Biennial 2022 Juried Exhibit of Contemporary Artists juried by Frank Juarez publisher of Art Dose magazine; Andrew James Wulf, Ph.D. (Director – Albany Museum of Art); Gary Freeburg (Professor and Director of Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University); Amanda C. Burdan (Associate Curator – Brandwine River Museum of Art); Christiane Paul (Director of Media Studies at New School, NY and Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art); Malcolm Daniel (Curator of Photographs – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC); Kenneth Baker (Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle); Siri Engberg (Walker Art Center); Dorothy Simpson Krause (Educator and Authority on digital art); Stephen Phillips (Phillips Collection – Washington DC); Sam Gilliam (international artist); and Ed Paschke (international artist).
A Ragdale Residency Fellow, I am a juried member of the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts-In-Education Roster. My work has been in exhibits including solo exhibits at Northwestern University and Concordia University. I have received national and regional awards. A juror of art competitions, I was also fine art consultant and advisor for Grumbacher/Prismacolor along with developing a training program for Blick Art. My artwork is in corporate, university and private art collections.
© Marcia Babler