Sacramento, CA
About Marianne Bland:
Marianne Bland’s art career began in 1998 when she started her own mural painting business at the age of 16. She has since acquired a BFA in Painting & Drawing from the California College of the Arts and has studied abroad in Marseille, France.
Marianne's favorite subject matter is the city. She is intrigued by the urban landscape as a dense concentration of diverse, individual experiences occurring simultaneously in a public space. She often explores the city’s harmony of contradictions in colorful nightscape paintings and her biggest influences are Edward Hopper and Wayne Thiebaud.
In 2011, she was selected as a large heart artist for “Hearts in San Francisco 2012”. Marianne’s paintings have been exhibited throughout Northern California at venues including Stanford University and City Art Gallery. She currently works out of her home studio in Sacramento, California.
Selected exhibitions
- Hearts in San Francisco - San Francisco, CA, 2012
- City Art Gallery - San Francisco, CA, 2011
- Blue Line Gallery - Roseville, CA, 2011
- Stanford University - Stanford, CA, 2011
Education
- California College of Arts & Crafts, BFA in Painting and Drawing - Oakland, CA,2005
- LâEcole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Study Abroad - Marseille, FRANCE,2004
- Ohlone College, - Fremont, CA,2002
Press Accolades
- Large heart artist, San Francisco General Hospital Foundation - 2012
- March artist of the month, Sacramento365.com - 2011
- April artist of the month, N Magazine - 2010