Sarasota, FL
About Carolyn Marx:
Marx’s abstract acrylic/mixed media art invites viewers to create their own narratives in response to her visceral and vibrant pieces. They have a liveliness that evokes complex feelings that cannot always be expressed; some say it simply makes them happy!
She employs her unique process outdoors at a large glass-covered table. (See www.carolynmarxart.com/publications, for article in prominent Sarasota arts and culture magazine.) She paints, layers, scrapes, draws, sprays, and presses pigments and added materials on or between glass plates. With her high-resolution digital camera she incorporates the transient atmosphere and lighting effects at different times of day. At various times she cleans the glass and begins again, so the art materials —like the ephemeral effects of sunlight—are fleeting. The unedited photo is the only unique original.
Marx’s fine arts education, first at Parsons School of Design and then at Hunter College (M.A., Painting), led to many successful years as a New York landscape artist (pastels, charcoal, oil). The organic nature of her current body of work reflects her abiding passion for nature.
A recent move to Sarasota from New York led to working and showing in local galleries and art festivals, where she loves to engage viewers of all ages and backgrounds, listening to their thoughts, reactions, and questions.
Her sophisticated use of color and composition was inspired by the impressionists, post-impressionists and abstract expressionists. She says she is awestruck by complex systems, chaos theory, quantum theory and the intricacies of the human mind. She explains the dynamic nature of her work: ‘I often start my mixed media work with drawings to capture the movement of trees, flowers, or other complex living things I see around me. I keep this sense of movement going as the work grows.’
