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Marie Swartz
Digital Collages
Warrior Boy
Umbrella and Flying Fish
Angel
Woman in Fishbowl
Japanese Woman with Rabbit
All Strung Out
Unframed
10 x 10" Edition of 40 $400.
15 x 15" Edition of 40 $600
24 x 24 " Edition of 15 $900.
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Butterfly Woman Smoking on Rock
Marie Swartz's Biography
After receiving a BA from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) in 1974, Marie Swartz worked as a sculptor and jeweler before turning to photography. She also studied at Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) and School of Visual Arts and the Institute of Fashion Design (New York, NY). Upon relocating to Texas, she continued her studies in painting, drawing and art history at the San Antonio Art Institute and Santa Fe Workshops. Her work is represented by Joan Grona Gallery (San Antonio, TX) and is in regional and national collections including the University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville, VA).
In addition to working as an artist and exhibiting professionally, Marie has been involved in many endeavors in support of the Visual Arts.. She served as a Commissioner and a Visual Arts panelist for the Texas Commission on the Arts. She was Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Architectural Selection Committee for the new San Antonio Public Library, as well as a Board Member and member of the Architectural Selection Committee for The San Antonio Art Institute. She was a former Board Member of The San Arts Commission and a Board Member of Blue Star Art Space, a former member of the exhibition Committee of the San Antonio Museum of Art. At the McNay Art Museum she inaugurated a Sales and Rental Gallery and wrote the catalogs for the Theodoros Stamos and Carlos Merida exhibitions.
She and her husband have been collectors of Museum Quality Works of Art since they were in their mid-twenties.
Curatorial Statement
When we see the work of Marie Swartz, we enter a magical realm. It's a delightfully surreal world of unexpected juxtapositions and seemingly happenstance occurrences. In this enchanted land, goldfish fly and a parasol is created from a single rose. We see disembodied hands pulling the strings of a marionette onstage and women with wings contemplating the landscape. The artist's creative process illustrates a deep commitment to form and space, both organic and geometric. Her work is an interweaving of elements from fairy tales, folktales and tall tales. These digital mixed-media collages are created from her photographs and appropriated imagery to which she adds elements of drawing and painting. The artist doesn't provide us with explanations; we are asked to construct our own interpretations of these fanciful narratives.
EDUCATION
Goucher College, Baltimore Maryland
Trinity University BA 1974
EXHIBITIONS
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Joan Grona Gallery 2006
Blue Star 2007
Fotofest Houston 2008
FotoSeptiembre San Antonio 2008
Radius Gallery 2008
