December 1999
Marianne Huebner
A relatively new medium in the world of art, Acrylic has become a fast favorite of Marianne Huebner's. A mother with a full time job, she sometimes finds it difficult to find the time to paint.
Introduced to acrylics in college, Marianne enjoys the quick drying time and the vibrancy of color. In college, Acrylics were used primarily for "studies" done on the fast paced campus to be used for later finished works in oil. Marianne has continued with the quick acrylic sketches and, with the discovery of Liquitex Gel Medium, has moved on to larger, finished work in acrylics as well. The gel medium works as not only an extender to delay the drying time, but it also created a lush feel to the acrylic paint, often fooling the viewer into thinking her work is in oil.
Arbitrarily reaching for a tube of paint, Marianne begins to sketch. This process forces her to view the subject differently yet carefully. She tends to color block and build the different layers of color until the correct depth and hue are obtained. Never fully covering the underlayers, her work takes on a glow or shimmer.
Marianne feels that the process of painting, or creating, is a meditative search. "It's a search for the questions that only the creative process can attempt to answer such as "why" and "what's it all about" and "what is important to me" and again, "why"", she says. "I continually question the relentless need to create, and more so, to paint."
Marianne uses the application of paint to a surface as a process of revealing."My subject matter reveals places of comfort, objects of sentiment and the quiet yet expressive nature of shadow and light." "The content, then, is less arbitrary than is visually implied and consciously reveals that which is important and close to me. Composition and color choice become extensions of this same thought", Marianne explains.
This thought process does not begin with the application of paint to a surface, rather manifests itself in a form she calls art. "I am a painter. I paint of myself and will, upon occasion, gather my thoughts, frame them and place them before you in anticipation of the process continuing."
Exhibitions:
- 1998 "Artist Series - second showing, Fiddleheads Coffee Shop, Thiensville (Solo)
- 1998 "Virtually the Third - cyberspace exhibit", Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors, SE chapter (Juried)
- 1998 "Wisconsin Painters Series", Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (Group)
- 1998 "Artist Series", Fiddleheads Coffee Shop, Thiensville (Solo)
- 1998 "The artist series", Wisconsin Paper & Products (note cards) (Juried)
- 1993 "Shapes of Color", Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (Group)
- 1992 "Celebration of the Nude", Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (Group)
- 1992 "Between Painting & Sculpture", Milwaukee High School of the Arts (Group)
- 1992 "Tempo Mentor Art Competition", Faison Building, Milwaukee, WI (Juried)
- 1991 "Ethereal Images", Chip & Py's Restaurant, Mequon (Solo)
- 1991 "Ideas/Images", Cudahy Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum (Juried)
- 1991 "Senior Art Show", UWM Union Art Gallery (Juried)
- 1991 "Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition", UWM Fine Arts Gallery (Juried)
- 1990 "Italian Views", West 37th, Milwaukee
Guest lectures:
- 1992 "Between Painting & Sculpture" Milwaukee High School of the Arts, Milwaukee
- 1992 "Color Theory" Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design