Artist Statement

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Wonder offers vitality to each act of creation. Silent musings that echo and re-echo. Before the thoughts. Beyond the sky. The wonder of time past slipping through time present to new tomorrows. As I walk along paths imprinted from yesterdays, I’m accompanied by the shadows of the past. Movement forward opens up new understandings and visions. Breathing with unknowns, I anchor myself through creative acts. I use abstraction. I give voice to color, line, shapes geometric or not. I paint, draw, collage, build, and compose to communicate the movement of mystery, its resonance.

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Artist Biography

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Marilyn is an artist residing in Philadelphia, and she continues to exhibit throughout the United States. Her art investigates geometrical and non-geometrical abstraction as fluctuating visual expressions of her thoughts on movement in time and space in a state of wonder. Experimentations with color, line, and media characterize her inner dialogues on time flowing from the past, slipping into the present, moving on...how to reveal and resonate that wondering? How is that wonder to enrich the present? Primarily a painter, she also creates altered books with used paperbacks, composes music, and experiments with other media.

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Education

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Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
B.A., Art History

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
M.A., Fine Arts

Holy Names University and Teachers College of San Joaquin, CA
Multiple Subjects and Single Subject in Art Credential Programs

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Affiliations

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Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Center for the Book, Philadelphia, PA

ArtSource, Art Registry, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE

InLiquid, Philadelphia, PA

Musescore, Published Music Scores, Online

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Publications

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2021
“Philly Stewards” publication: Marilyn Stubblebine - Color Says, December 2021 Issue

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Video Links

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Color Says: Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Artist's Talk with Marilyn Stubblebine, Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, NJ

Paging, from my solo show at Da Vinci Art Alliance with my background score Furrowed toward the end

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Exhibitions

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Solo

2021
Color Says, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Artistic Edge, Sacramento, CA

2014
Lodi Public Library, Lodi, CA

2011
Lodi Public Library, Lodi, CA

2009
Lodi Community Art Center, Lodi, CA

Lodi Public Library, Lodi, CA

2007
Lodi Public Library, Lodi, CA

1985
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

1980
Indian Valley Colleges, Novato, CA

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Group

2023
Color Theory, Site: BROOKLYN GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY‍

Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA

Formation, Fall 2023 New Members Exhibition, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA‍

New Now VI, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Soft Girl Era, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE

Completely Color Virtual Exhibition, Color Impact 2023: Color and Human Experience Conference Virtual Exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Website Art Exhibition, Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), Washington DC

International Salon of Small Works, New Arts Gallery, Kutztown, PA

2023 Regional Juried Spring Open, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
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2022
Searching for a New Normal, Philadelphia Center for the Book, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA‍

Changelings, Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, NJ‍

Family Room, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA‍

Collective Awareness, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA‍

32nd International Invitational Salon of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA‍

Neoteric Abstract X, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY

2021
Perennial Visions, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA‍

Looking Out/Looking In, McCabe Library, Swarthmore College, and online at Philadelphia Center for the Book‍

64 ARTS, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL‍

Derive, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA‍

Summer Juried Show 2021, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

‍Subjective Perspective, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2020
Light, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Forthcoming: The Endless Urban Portrait, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Abstractions, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA

These Times: A Virtual Annual Members’ Exhibition, Philadelphia Center for the Book

Fluid Transitions, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Colors of Hope, @Gallery X, Philadelphia, PA

Artist, Reader, Writer II, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2019
Perennial Visions, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

30th Annual International Invitational Salon of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

Art, Et Al, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Abstraction + Surrealism, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2018‍

Artist, Reader, Writer I, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

5th Annual Abstract Catalyst Exhibition, Verum Ultimum, Portland, OR

29th Annual International Invitational Salon of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

Compendium (Land)scapes, Crayola Gallery, Banana Factory Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA

2017
57th Annual Spring Art Show, Lodi Community Art Center

Arbitrary Color, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO

2007
Delicato Vineyards Annual Art Show, Manteca, CA

2006
2 Member Exhibitions, Lodi Community Art Center, Lodi, CA

1988
3-Person Show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986
2-Person Show, Chabot College, Hayward, CA

1984
California Women Artists, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Honorable Mention Award

1983
Galeria Museo, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

Indian Valley Colleges Invitational, Novato, CA

1982
San Francisco State University Graduate Painting Exhibition, San Francisco, CA