Marilyn Banner: Catalog of Works

Marilyn Banner was born in St. Louis, Missouri in March 1945. She was raised in the nearby suburb of University City. She has lived in New York NY and Boston MA, and currently lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. Banner attended Washington University (BFA School of Fine Arts, 1968). She undertook further visual arts study at Queens College (CUNY), the University of Maryland, Montgomery College, the Corcoran School of the Arts, and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston (MSEd 1982). Influential teachers and mentors included David Lund, painter, Marvin Bileck, draughtsman/illustrator, Lowry Burgess, conceptual artist, and Betsy Damon, feminist, performance artist, and arts activist. Banner’s MSEd thesis and exhibition, “Expanding Unconscious Sources: A Return to My Inner Self,” signaled a broadening and deepening of interests, approach, and media. This work signaled a long- term interest in the psyche, spiritual imagery, dreams, memory, Jung, feminism, expressionism, Jewish history and ancestry, and Shamanism. Banner has created several distinct bodies of work, mainly content driven and non-traditional. Media include plaster, latex, fur, bones, metal, wood, bricks, fabric, shells, slate, photography, charcoal, oil paint, acrylic, and encaustic. Forms include drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture, and installation. Travel to Costa Rica in 2002 shifted her focus from the inner to the natural world and landscape. Since 2004 Banner has worked almost exclusively with encaustic paint on wood. Marilyn Banner has been a leader in Betsy Damon’s No Limits for Women in the Arts project, in the National Women’s Caucus for Art, and in Washington Musica Viva, a Washington DC area music and art project. She exhibits nationally has been a member of Ceres Gallery in New York City since 1992. Website: www.marilynbanner.com玛丽莲·班纳（Marilyn Banner）于1945年3月出生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯市，在邻近的大学城郊区长大。她曾定居于纽约州纽约市与马萨诸塞州波士顿市，现居马里兰州塔科马帕克市。班纳就读于华盛顿大学，1968年获该校美术学院（BFA School of Fine Arts）学士学位；后续还在皇后学院（纽约市立大学，CUNY）、马里兰大学、蒙哥马利学院、科科伦艺术学院以及波士顿的马萨诸塞艺术学院深造，并于1982年获得教育学硕士学位（MSEd）。对她影响深远的教师与导师包括画家戴维·伦德（David Lund）、素描家兼插画师马文·比莱克（Marvin Bileck）、概念艺术家洛里·伯吉斯（Lowry Burgess），以及女权主义行为艺术家、艺术活动家贝琪·戴蒙（Betsy Damon）。班纳的硕士论文与展览《拓展无意识之源：回归内在自我》（Expanding Unconscious Sources: A Return to My Inner Self）标志着她在创作兴趣、创作路径与媒介选择上的拓展与深化。该作品也预示了她长期关注的一系列主题：心理活动、灵性意象、梦境、记忆、荣格心理学、女权主义、表现主义、犹太历史与族裔渊源，以及萨满教。班纳创作了多个风格迥异的创作系列，其创作多以内容为核心，且突破传统创作范式，使用的创作媒介包括石膏、乳胶、皮毛、骨骼、金属、木材、砖块、织物、贝壳、板岩、摄影、炭笔、油画颜料、丙烯酸树脂与蜡画颜料；创作形式涵盖素描、绘画、拼贴、集合艺术、雕塑与装置艺术。2002年的哥斯达黎加之行，使她的创作重心从内在精神世界转向自然天地与景观风貌。自2004年起，班纳几乎仅以木板为载体，使用蜡画颜料进行创作。玛丽莲·班纳曾是贝琪·戴蒙发起的"女性艺术无界限"项目、美国全国女性艺术协会（National Women’s Caucus for Art），以及华盛顿特区地区音乐与艺术项目"华盛顿音乐维瓦（Washington Musica Viva）"的领军人物；自1992年起，她便成为纽约市赛勒斯画廊（Ceres Gallery）的常驻艺术家。个人官网：www.marilynbanner.com