Marie Swartz

Digital Collages

 
Lassoed
Red Riding Hood

 

Warrior Boy

 

Umbrella and Flying Fish

Woman in Boat
Roses with Man and Spyglass

 

Woman in Fishbowl

 

Japanese Woman with Rabbit

The Singing Geisha
Air Conditioning
Two Chinese Women

 

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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Woman with Pet Chick
In The Land of the Blind

 

Butterfly Woman Smoking on Rock

 

 

 

Marie Swartz

Marie Swartz turned to Photoshop and a flatbed scanner after a medical condition forced her to give up sculpting and curtail a successful jewelry business. Thanks to the computer, she has been able to resume an active, creative life. Swartz began to study the fine arts when she was in her early twenties, and has since attended the School of Visual Arts and the Institute of Fashion Design in NYC. She also attended the San Antonio Art Institute for many years, where she studied painting, drawing and art history. Since 2000, she has regularly attended the Santa Fe Workshop in New Mexico, where she studied with Maggie Taylor, Katrin Eismann and David Julian.

Swartz's work deals with the contradictions of everyday life and our willingness to believe almost anything. In her cryptic images, which are often laced with humor, she examines the implausibility and absurdity implicit in everything from women's issues to war and nursery stories. Her digital collages are created from 19th and early 20th century images, her own photographs, and other materials in the public domain. She then draws or paints on them.

She uses a Macintosh G5, an Epson Expression 1680 Scanner, an Epson 7600 Printer and a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 Camera.

EDUCATION
Goucher College, Baltimore Maryland
Trinity University BA 1974