The Lake of Orange Berries, 2021 encaustic on wood, 12 x 12 x 1.5”
Snow Lichen, 2020, encaustic on wood, 10 x 10 x 1”
Joyful, 2020, encaustic on wood, 12 x 12 x 1.5”
Lecanora, 2021, encaustic on wood, 14 x 14 x 1.5”
Meandering, 2021, encaustic on wood, 24 x 12 x 1.5”
Falling into Green, 2021, encaustic on wood, 12. X 12 x 1”
Big Bear 3, 2019, encaustic on wood, 18 x 18 x 1.5”
Barcelona, the Old City, 2019, encaustic on wood, 24 x 24 x 1.5”
After the Rain 3, 2021, encaustic on wood, 12 x 12 x 1.5”
Secrets, 2020, encaustic on wood, 12 x 12 x 1.5”
STATEMENT
I am on a search for a sense of “home” in the natural world.. I seek resonance, always, with the deepest part of my being. What moves me there requires that I give it form.
I feel a sense of home when I am close to the earth, in touch, literally, with ancient stone and rock, where I can feel the energy, the history in it. I am grounded there, in the solidity, the perseverance of it through time.
Lately I find my sense of home with lichen. I am drawn to it everywhere – on the boulders, on stones and old wooden fences, on the trees in my neighborhood. It draws me in close, and I am mesmerized by its stillness and aliveness. It speaks to me in a silent language. I listen.
Marilyn Banner 2021
7502 Flower Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-891-6844
marilynbanner@verizon.net
www.marilynbanner.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND MAJOR INSTALLATIONS SINCE 2003:
| 2019 | Grounding/ Ceres Gallery, New York City |
| 2018 | Flow /Artists&Makers Gallery/Rockville MD |
| 2016 | Sands of Time/Bodzin Gallery/JCCNV, Fairfax, VA Watermarks/ Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgeley, MD At the Edge/ Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD |
| 2015 | Shoreline/Ceres Gallery/New York City, NY |
| 2015 | When Looking Down Becomes Up/Mclean Project/Arlington VA |
| 2014 | H2O/Marymount University/Arlington, VA (2 person) |
| 2013 | Wind and Water/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Spring/James Madison U. Edith C. Carrier Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA |
| 2013 | Rhythm and Resonance/Levine School of Music, Wash. DC |
| 2012 | Earth in Bloom/Brookside Gardens Gallery, Wheaton, MD |
| 2012 | Light/Flow/Resonance/Carroll Community College, Westminster, MD |
| 2011 | A Sense of Place/Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgely, MD |
| 2011 | A Sense of Place/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2009 | Sacred Ground/Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD |
| 2009 | Sacred Ground/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Scenes of Childhood/Georgetown University Lombardi Center, Wash. DC |
| 2008 | Songs of Joy/Benfield Gallery, Severna Park, MD |
| 2006 | Soul Ladders/Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA |
| 2006 | Still With Us/Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD |
| 2005 | Music Memory/Atlas Performing Arts Center, Wash. DC |
| 2004 | Rainforest Memories/Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington, DC |
| 2003 | Congregation/Bodzin Gallery, JCCNV, Fairfax, VA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2010:
| 2021 | Jewish Authenticity and Identity/ Adas Israel Synagogue, Washington DC Ori Z Soltes, Curator |
| 2020 | Terra Infirma/ The Bremen Museum, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2019 | BMRE Bienniel Juried Exhibition/ UMGC, Adelphi MD Preston Sampson, Cherry Schroeder, Gretchen Schermerhorn, Jurors A Sense of Place in Contemporary Encaustic/ Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ Lisa Pressman Curator |
| 2018 | Terra inFirma/ Bernard Heller Museum/ HUC, NYC Laura Kruger, Curator |
| 2015 | Fusion/Central Booking, New York City NY Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Curator |
| 2013 | Ancestors, Guardians, and Guide/ Sumner School Museum, Wash. DC Jarvis DuBois, Curator |
| 2013 | Cherishing the Legacy/ Corcoran Museum, Washington DC Dr. P. Lawton, J Hale Curators |
| 2013 | Transformed/ Blackrock Art Center/ Germantown MD (4 person) |
| 2013 | Natura Viva/ ArtCurrent Gallery, Provincetown, MA Debra Claffey, Curator |
| 2013 | Meet My Uterus/ Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2012 | Women and Wax/ Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville, MD Susan Feller, Curator |
| 2012 | Inside/Outside/ Ceres Gallery, New York City |
| 2011 | Exploring New Dimensions/ Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD |
| 2011 | Beeline/ Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA(Francine D’Olimpio, Juror |
| 2011 | Sanctuaries in Time/ Barnard College, New York City Juried |
| 2010 | VMRC National Juried Show, Harrisonburg, VA |
| 2010 | This is Our Body/ poet/artist collaboration, Takoma Park Com. Center, Tak. Pk, MD |
| 2010 | Drawing the Line/ National WCA/JWAN, Beverly Arts Center of Chicago, Sarah Giller, Juror |
| 2010 | Body Mind Spirit/, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, H McNamee, B Donovan, Jurors |
| 2010 | Personal Armor (2)/ Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD T. Van Dyke, Curator |
RECENT AWARDS/ HONORS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
| 2012 | Art Cart/Saving the Legacy, Washington DC |
| 2012 | Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts |
| 2012 | 2009, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1995, 1993, 1992: Fellowship Residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA |
RECENT AWARDS/ HONORS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
| 2012 | Washington University (BFA 1968); Queens College, CUNY (1968-69); Montgomery College; University of Maryland; Massachusetts College of Art (MSEd 1982); Corcoran School of Art; R&F Encaustics |
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
| 2012 | Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY |