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Marianne Chapel :: Perceptions and Memories

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Marianne Chapel
Perceptions and Memories
Solo Exhibition

My work documents our journey to self-knowledge and moral development in the context of cultural references. I am interested in worldwide behaviors and trends that mirror the private and personal needs of social progress. It feels like a natural progression to relate individual experiences to large scale, international conversations. The same issues reveal themselves –financial security, interdependence or dependence, victimization, authority and control. Specifically, my work explores the way these issues present themselves through familial story telling or indoctrination. The story is told from one perception and is heard from yet another. Some place in between our identities our formed. The question I ask is, “What is your story and how or why do you need to tell it?”

My process is one of research. While my work always includes and revolves around the traditional methods of painting and drawing, I like to explore more conceptual forms of communication. I am often compelled to use a mixed media process that can involve drawing, collage and installation. Incorporating common or primitive materials, such as hay, jute, tea, and coffee, represent a connection and understanding of our past. Transparent materials such as wax and tracing paper, and acetate symbolize the complicated layers through which we view our lives.

The addition of text exposing words from a personal conversation, or in a diary type format, reveal an intimate and authentic identification with the viewer. In some of my work, word and image are linked. In other pieces words take over completely. In the piece, “Dirty Laundry,” the viewer is witness to personal journals - lines of text on tea dyed paper hanging by straight pins from jute. In this piece, it is important to me to ensure that a comprehensible message is actually communicated. I believe language can be intricately tied up with issues of possession and power. Language in my work makes it more firmly connected to popular culture.

I derive inspiration from representational painters: Lucien Freud, Paula Rego, Eric Fischl, Julie Heffernan, and William Beckman. I am intrigued with mixed media, installation and performance artists such as Arturo Herrera, Leonardo Drew, Barbara Kruger, Magdalena Jetelova and Jenny Holzer. I also am interested in photographers Rineke Dijkstra, Shirin Neshat and Gillian Wearing. Each continues to influence my passion for artistic methodologies and contextual development.

Marianne was born in Binghamton, New York. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University in 1999. Marianne has traveled extensively to Europe, both to study and teach art. She has taught art in Bloomington, Indiana, Florence Italy, Buffalo, NY, and Batesville, Arkansas. She served as an Instructor of Art at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL for ten years resigning in 2010 to move to Panama, Central America. She also taught for several years at the University of Tampa and for the Sarasota County School systems.

Marianne has been the recipient of the Indiana Universities Graduate Studies Research Grant for Florence, Italy. She has received the Charles Lanham Fellowship for Travel Abroad. She has been awarded a research grant residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Marianne has received a faculty grant from the Ringling College of Art and Design for the creation and exhibition of a series of life-size figurative works. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States.

When not working in her studio surrounded by the Panamanian jungle, Marianne enjoys hiking, studying language and history, and teaching. She spends her summers in her house and art studio in the Laurentian Mountains in Val David, Quebec.

Idioms, Synonyms and Popular Culture Series
left to right
Chasing Tail
I Hope You Forgave Me….(From Alice Hoffman, “The Dove Keepers”)
Eat Your Heart Out
Saint Scape Goat Sitting Duck
You Are Safe Now
Scapegoat
The Nice Way
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Like Rabbits
Bark Up The Wrong Tree
Fall Victim to....
I Play One on T.V.
All Bark and No Bite
Run Lola Run (from the movie, written and directed by Tom Tykwer)
God, Victor, Hero
Story Telling

mixed media on paper on wood panel, 2012, $550 each.

Idiom: An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning separate from the literal meaning of the words from which it is made. An idiom cannot be understood from the dictionary definitions of each word taken separately. Some idioms are only used by some groups of people or at certain times. The idiom shape up or ship out, which is like saying improve your behavior or leave if you don't, might be said by an employer or supervisor to an employee, but not to other people. There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the English language.
Synonym: A synonym is a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language. It is a word or an expression that serves as a figurative or symbolic substitute for another.
Positive/Negative Affirmations: A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something. The truth is we use affirmations all day every day. Most of us don’t realize how powerful our words are. Whether spoken aloud or repeated in thought, we are asserting and creating our own individual truths. We have all had the experience of looking at an object with a friend and not sharing the same opinion about the object. For example you see a car and state “I really like that car” and your friend says “I can’t believe you like that thing!” in obvious disapproval. Who is right? You both are because you are stating your own individual truths.

Summer Series, #1 thru #8, graphite, chalk, transparent papers, photographs on tea dyed paper pine boxes, 2012, $400.

(Don't Air Your.....) Dirty Laundry, pine, tea dyed paper, jute, straight pins ,2012, POR.

Cry Wolf (sold)& Turn Rabbit, acrylic, felt on board, 2012, $475 each

Victim Dolly, Pine, felt, burlap, wax paper and jute, 2012, POR

Positive/Negative Statement Books, tea dyed paper, $25 each

Stop Chasing Your Tale
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted
Down the Rabbit Hole, Idiom from “Alice in Wonderland”
It’s Happening Now
Acrylic, burlap on canvas, white frames, 2012, $125

Untitled, chicken wire, transparent papers, 2012, $500 each
Small White House
Large Pink House
Medium Blue House
graphite, charcoal, felt on paper, 2012, $600 each.

To Ask for #2 (by screaming)
To Ask for #3 (by praying) (sold)
To Ask for #1 (by begging)
graphite, mixed media, 2012, $625 each

Pull a Rabbit out of your Hat, charcoal, graphite, foam on paper, 2012, $600