Marie Swartz
Digital Collages
Warrior Boy
Umbrella and Flying Fish
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
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
