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Artists Registry
Westport CT United States
Artist's Statement
A Statement About My Work
I am concerned with communicating a sense of harmony, balance, order and spirituality.
We are all confronted on a daily basis with the fragmentation of our non-linear lives, trying, as in a puzzle, to make all the pieces fit together to make sense of it all.
My paintings, works on paper, and sculpture depict imagery of personal events and psychological issues. They are expressed through geometric shapes, color, light, space, texture, edges and movement all interplaying with one another engaging the viewer to participate.
The multi-dimensionality and multi-layering of the structures make reference to the layers one must uncover to penetrate the illusions of reality and reach the mystery and essence of the soul.
Marlene Siff
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Résumé
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Fairfield CT, opening September 20th - December 12th, "Elements Of Peace"
2010 Creative Women Today, CT Cablevision Channel 88 and Charter Channel 21CTV
30 minute TV program sponsored by The National League of
American Pen Women, Fairfield County Branch, CT
2010 Katonah Museum of Art Online Gallery, Katonah, NY
2009 Katonah Museum Artists' Association, Private Studio Tour, Westport, CT
2007 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Rosenthal Gallery at Rich Forum, Stamford, CT
1999 The Lobby Gallery of The Durst Organization, "Descriptive Geometries" NY, NY
1999 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1998 Mitchells, Westport, CT
1995 Westport Arts Center, Lobby Gallery, Westport, CT
1995 Park Place, Stamford, CT
1994 Temple Israel, Westport, CT
1993 Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
1990 Connecticut National Bank Headquarters, Norwalk, CT
1989 Paul Mellon Art Center at Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
(Centennial Celebration)
1987 Connecticut Public Television Gallery 24, Hartford, CT
1987 Segal Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE 16th Annual Collage, Digital & Mixed Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition
2014 Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT, The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water (Juror Sophia Gevas Director of Outreach Education at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT and Co-Founder of Loft Artists Association)
2014 See.Me The Times Square Billboard Premier Event, Art Takes Times Square, Times Square New York, NY
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 11th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition
2014 Atlantic Works Gallery The Biennal Project, Boston, MA, The Boston Biennial 3
2014 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, Art Café Artists Talks, 2014 SOLOS Exhibition
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE 16th Annual Judeo-Christian Juried Online International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ, of Nebraska)
2014 Art Addiction Online Gallery, MAB3 / Art Addiction Media 3. Art Biennial 2014-2016
2014 Art Addiction Online Gallery, COLLAGE / Art Addiction Annual 2014-2015
2014 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Neoteric Abstract, SlowArt Productions
2014 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, SOLOS 2014, (Juror Patricia Hickson)
2014 Embraer Executive Jets, Executive Showroom, Melbourne, FL “History and Geography”, February 1, 2014 – May 31, 2014
2013 Art Basel - Miami Beach, Red Dot Art Fair, Art Essex Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
2013 American Airlines Premium Lounge Lounge, Embler Art Gallery, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL, November 2013 - March 2014
2013 Embraer Executive Jets, Executive Showroom, Melbourne, FL
2013 See.Me, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, New York, The Story of the Creative
2013 Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 56th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of
Contemporary Art (Juror, Janne Siren, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
2013 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Art Biologic, SlowArt Productions
2012 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, Local Color, Defying Boundaries (Juror, Diana
Kamin, Curator Whitney Museum of American Art)
2012 National Steinbeck Center Museum, Salinas, CA, Honoring Women’s Rights:
Visual Voices Together, (Jurors, Dr. Joyce Aiken, Dr. Ruth Weisberg and Patricia
Rodriguez)
2012 The Times Square Billboard Premier Event, Art Takes Times Square, Times Square,
New York City
2012 Katonah Museum of Art, Total Recall, (Juror, Leslee Asch, Executive
Director, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT)
2012 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE,14th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online
International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of NE)
2012 Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 95th Annual Juried Exhibition, (Juror, Marla
Prather, Curator Nineteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary Art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2012 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Art to the Point: Tri-State Juried Exhibition,
(Juror, Donald Sultan)
2011 14th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE Laurence Bradshaw, Juror (Prof. Art, Univ. Nebraska)
2011 13th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography and Print Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE Laurence Bradshaw, Juror (Prof. Art, Univ. Nebraska)
2011 11th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online Int'l Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE
2011 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT. Splash (Juror Marianne Brunson Frish)
2011 ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY. A Spin on Green
2011 Art About Town, Westport, CT.
2011 Fairfield Public Library, Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield CT, Dialogue in Color
(Juror Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, ARC Fine Art, LLC)
2011 Kraft Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, JWAN Nat'l Juried Exhibition, Sanctuaries In Time Dr. Maya Balakirsky Katz PhD., Juror (Prof. Art History, Touro College)
2010 8th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online Int'l Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE
2010 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT Summer Alexandra Monroe juror (Senior Curator Asian Art at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY)
2010 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT Juxtapositions Neil Watson juror (Executive Director
of the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY)
2010 12th Annual Juried Online Int'l Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE
2009 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY Dreams and Metaphors
2009 Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY
(Katonah Museum Art Association, Exhibition #15)
2009 Westport Historical Society, Sheffer Gallery, Westport, CT
2009 Westport Historical Society, Hidden Garden Tour (also included studio tour), Westport, CT
2009 Westport Historical Society Documentary Film, Years In The Making (first showing) Westport, CT
2009 Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2009 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Contemporary Confrontations
Nan Rosenthal juror (retired Senior Consultant Contemporary Art Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2009 National September 11th Memorial Museum, Artists Registry Virtual Art Gallery
2008 Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2008 The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
2008 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2008 The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2007 Art Now Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2007 Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT (Juror, Dede Young, Curator Neuberger Museum) 2006 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services Art Show, Westport, CT
2004 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2003 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2003 River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT
2002 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2002 River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT
2001 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2000 Studio Tour, Sponsored by the Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1998 B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
1996 Whitney Gallery, Westport, CT
1995 Reece Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Share Gallery, Funibashi, Japan
1995 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1994 Galerie Début, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Galerie Musée, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Wave Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1994 Joel Kessler Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Art Miami International Exposition, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Boston Corporate Art, Boston, MA
1993 American Society of Interior Designers National Headquarters, Washington, DC
1993 The Michael Stone Collection, McLean, VA
1993 Funding Center, Alexandria, VA
1993 International Cancer Alliance at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1993 Galerie Début, Nagoya, Japan
1993 Wave Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1993 Joel Kessler Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL
1992 The Michael Stone Collection, Washington, DC
1992 American Society of Interior Designers, National Headquarters, Washington, DC
1992 Funding Center, Alexandria, VA
1992 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1991 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1991 Galerie Seven, Danbury, CT
1991 The Aldrich Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1990 Exhibition in Connecticut State Capital Building sponsored by Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
1987 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1986 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1985 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1984 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Museum Collections
B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum (Permanent Collection), Washington, DC
Corporate Collections & Commissions
Schiff Hardin LLP, New York, NY
US Congressman Jim Himes' Office in the Capitol Building, Washington DC
Cornell Plantations' Brian C. Nev in Welcome Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky LLP, New York, NY
Pennie & Edmonds, New York, NY
Dial Corporation, Phoenix, AZ
Lenox, Inc., Princeton, N J
Hale and Dorr, Boston, MA
Katzen Investments, Altamont Springs, FL
Temple Israel, Westport, CT
WSAA, Inc., Westport, CT
Fairfield First Bank and Trust Co., Norwalk, CT
Alcide Corporation, Norwalk, CT
Wilton Executive Campus, Wilton, CT
C. R. Gibson Co., Norwalk, CT
Cannon Mills, New York, NY
J. C. Penney, New York, NY
Stauffer Chemical, Westport, CT
Easter Seal Foundation, New York, NY
J. P. Stevens, Inc., New York, NY
Staples High School, Westport, CT
Publications
The Club Collection, A Catalog of Fine Art, 2013, presented by Embler Art Gallery
Catalogue Raisonné, Marlene Siff, 2012, published by remram ritings
Marlene Siff: Metaphors & Messages, solo exhibition catalogue, 2007, Walter
Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Marlene Siff Solo Exhibition, 2004, essay by Edward Lucie Smith, Walter
Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Marlene Siff: Peace/War, 1997, essay by Ori Solte
2013 See.Me Website Homepage Profile, painting “The Great Mystery That Surronds Us” selected for special feature on homepage of website.
Fairfield Living, October 2013, “Fairfield Art Galleries” by Kendra Guilfoile
The Chautuaquan Daily, Weekend Edition, July 6 & 7, 2013, “ In VACI’s 56th Annual, ‘a
quiet, confident sense of excellence’” by Anthony Bannon
The Chautuaquan Daily, Monday June 24, 2013, “Albright-Knox Director Brings Nordic
Influence to Chautauqua 56th Annual”, by Paige Cooperstein
“Bound” Exhibition Catalogue, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Phoenix Gallery, New York,
NY, January 30, 2013, Juror: Cora Rosevear, Curator Painting and Sculpture Department,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Connecticut Post, cover of Sunday “Pulse”, September 17, 2012, by Phyllis Boros
“Artis Siff’s hopes for the peace embodied in “Elements” by Nancy Helle
VENÜ Magazine, September/October Issue, 2012, "Artist Explores Elements of Peace" by Nancy Helle
Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate: Pulse, June 17, 2012, " Artists make memories in
"Total Recall" by Scott Gargan
newstimes.com, June 14, 2012, "Artists make memories in "Total Recall" exhibit in Stamford"
by Scott Gargan
Marlene Siff (catalogue raisonné) 2012, published by remram ritings
International Contemporary Artists Vol IV 2012, published by ICA Publishing
Arts Westchester/This and That by JL, February 9, 2012, "Curator's Choice" by Janet
Langsam
International Contemporary Artists Vol III 2011
myartspace.com, 2011
CT Post, Sunday, January 30, 2011, "Artist with a Cause: War, peace subjects of great importance to Westport artist Siff" by Phyllis Boros
Westport Magazine, January/February 2011, "Honoring the Fallen Heroes of Afghanistan: Westport artist's work installed in nation's capitol"
Westport News, November 9, 2010, "Westport artist uses flag motif in tribute to fallen heroes"
Westport Minuteman, October 28, 2010, "Artist's Commemorative Work, 'Fallen Heroes/Afghanistan' slated for US Congressman Jim Himes' Office in the Capital Building
WestportNow.com, October 18, 2010, "Westporter's Afghanistan War Work Heads to Washington"
Westport Arts Center, "Summer" August 25, 2010, Artist's Talk
Westport News, February 26, 2010, "Siff Among Creative Women Today"
Creative Women Today, 2010, CT Cablevision channel 88 - 30 minute TV
program sponsored by The National League of American Pen Women
Documentary Film, 2009, Years in the Making (film opening) Bowtie 6, Norwalk, CT
Documentary Film, 2008, Years in the Making, Westport/Weston, CT
At Hunter, Winter 2008, "Class Notes"
Minuteman, November 8, 2007, "Creativity of Westport Artist Who Live Long and Prosper" by Bonnie Adler
Westport News, September 8, 2007, "Artists to be Featured in Documentary"
Westport News, May 25, 2007, “Marlene Siff Work On View in NYC”
Fairfield County Weekly, February 9-15, 2006, “Your Art Here”
Break A Leg (Radio Interview), Stamford, CT, November 2005
Minuteman, October 13, 2005, “Westporter Combines Artistic Talent with Business, Family”
Westport News, October 12, 2005, “Marlene Siff Work on View in Stamford”
Westport News, April 30, 2004 “Mothers Day Art Show at Hall-Brooke”
Who’s Who in America - Millennium Edition – 2000
Who’s Who in America - Regional and Topical Register, 2000
Who's Who of American Women, 2000
Who's Who In the East, 2000
Minuteman, April 27, 2000 "Westport Art Center's Studio Tour of 17 Artists"
Westport News, April 21, 2000
National Jewish Museum - The Jewish Calendar, 1998-1999 April/May
Westport News, February 13, 1998, "Till Death Do Us Part"
CT Post, August 10, 1997 "Suicide Bombings Spur Westport Artist" by Phyllis Boros
Home (Magazine Supplement to The Advocate and Greenwich Times), September 7,1997 "Marrying art with ingenuity" by Lisa Pierce Brennig
Minuteman, June 25, 1997
The Advocate and Greenwich Times, June 1, 1997
Westport News, May 28, 1997, "Memorial Honors Victim of War" by Elizabeth Gershaman
The Advocate and Greenwich Times, May 25, 1997, "In Memoriam: Westport Artist Commemorates Israeli Suicide Bombings" by Lisa Breunig
Shalom, May 1997 "Westport Artist's Work Selected for Permanent Museum Collection in D.C."
Westport News, April 19, 1996
Minuteman, April 17, 1996
The Homesteader, January, 1996, “Why Art? Making a House a Home”
Minuteman, July 6, 1995, "meta•mor•pho•sis opens at Westport Arts Center"
Westport News, June 28, 1995 "Local Artist to Exhibit at WAC"
Minuteman, June 15, 1995 "Sculpture & Screens exhibited at Westport Arts Center"
The American Society of Interior Designers Report, Sept/Oct, 1993
The American Society of Interior Designers Report, Jan/Feb, 1993
The New York Times, Connecticut Weekly, December 16, 1990, "Can Marketers Outsmart Real-Estate Slump?" by Charlotte Libov
Westport News, October 19, 1990
The Norwalk Hour, October 19, 1990
New England Real Estate Journal, October 5, 1990
Fairpress, October 4, 1990 "Women artists on exhibit" by Betty Tyler
Westport News, October 3, 1990
The Norwalk Hour, October 3, 1990
Fairfield County Business Journal, October 1, 1990
Westport News, October 18, 1989 "Speaking from the heart with color" by Betty Tyler
Awards & Honors
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, “11th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition” Two Special Recognitions
Art Addiction Online Gallery, “11th Artist Of Today” Diploma of Excellence/Honorable
Award
Artavita, Santa Barbara, CA 10th Annual Contest, 2014 – Certificate of Excellence, Juror,
Despina Tunberg, Curator, Art Director and Organizer of World Wide Art Los Angeles
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the Library of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - 2014
Art Addiction Online Gallery, MAB3 / Art Addiction Media 3 Art Biennial 2014-2016. Diploma of Excellence/Honorable Award
Art Addiction Online Gallery, Collage / Art Addiction Annual 2014-2015, Diploma of Excellence/Honorable Award
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, “56th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of
Contemporary Art” (Juror, Janne Sirén, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) –
“2013 Deborah Anderson Award Recipient In Memory of Harold Anderson”
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library 2013
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the office of the Yale University Art Gallery - 2013
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Library
Museum - 2013
Personal letter from Senator Richard Blumenthal regarding solo exhibition “Elements Of Peace”
- October 17, 2012
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in personal library of Glen Lowry (Director of
MOMA) - 2012
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in Whitney Museum library - 2012
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA) library - 2012
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, Local Color, Defying Boundaries (Juror, Diana Kamin,
Curator Whitney Museum of American Art) – 2012 100th Anniversary Nelda A. Howard Award from the Greenwich Art Society.
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, “14th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online
International Art Exhibition”, 2012 – Special Recognition
Art Smart Program for Coleytown Elementary School, Westport, CT. Chosen by head of program to teach a 4th grade and a 2nd grade art class. 2012
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, "14th Annual All Media Juried Online International
Art Exhibition", 2012 - Special Recognition
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 13th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print Juried Online International Art Exhibition, 2011 - Special Recognition
Personal letter from CT Congressman Jim Himes regarding painting “Fallen
Heroes/Afghanistan” - March 10, 2011
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, "13th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print
Juried Online International Art Exhibition", 2011 - Special Recognition
Personal letter from First Lady Michelle Obama regarding painting “Fallen
Heroes/Afghanistan” - November 17, 2010
Art Advisory Council of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Award from Connecticut Manufacturers Association for creating the “Most Beautiful
Working Environment in an Industrial Facility in 1970”
Elected to Kappa Pi – National Honorary Art Fraternity - 1956
High School of Music and Art, New York City -- Art Honor Society
Education
Hunter College, New York City – B.A., 1957, Concentration: Fine Arts
High School of Music & Art, New York City – 1953, Concentration: Art