NAME: Marilyn Fenn
BIRTH PLACE: Cleveland, OH
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Cleveland, OH
Lives and Works: Austin, TX
Marilyn Fenn has been creating art in one form or another since early childhood. In 1985, she returned to college to study fine art, graduating in 1992 from the the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with several of the famed Chicago Imagists. She has continued her studies with fellow SAIC alumnus Noel Robbins of Robbins Studio in Austin, with New York painter Charles Wildbank at a workshop in Tuscany, Italy and most recently with Austin painter Andrew Long.
Marilyn has exhibited her work in numerous juried and invitational group and solo shows, and given art demonstrations, classes and talks. She is an active member in several local artist organizations, including Austin Visual Arts Association and TexasWax/Austin. Marilyn's work is collected in private collections across the country and abroad.
Currently, Marilyn works primarily as a painter, working in oil, acrylic and encaustic. For the past two decades, Marilyn has explored a variety of subject matter ranging from representational landscapes and still lifes to vibrant abstractions -- and many points in between. Their common thread is an unerring sense of color, and a constant celebration of how paint inhabits a surface.
