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The Art Marketer's Blog: Living a Creative Life Outloud

Dear (Contact First Name),  

Welcome Fall 2014:

Summer has seemingly slipped away as a rainbow palette of autumnal colors paint the local landscape and the sweet scent of apple fills the air out here on the East End of Long Island.

A busy summer has paved the way for an even busier Fall leaving me with less time for writing. Apologies for the delays in keeping up with our Newsletter. Here's what I am currently consumed with:

Susan Marx, an Abstract Impressionist Artist I started working with in July is my first story of the season. Marx is currently featured in a group show at Agora Gallery in Manhattan, which opens on Thursday, October 16th and runs through October 30th. See more about this in our First Feature presentation below.

Susan Levin's art continues to make headlines. Read my feature article about her in the Summer issue of Fine Art Magazine, linked below.

New on my blog: Hildy Maze , an East  Hampton artist, whose spiritual approach to life radiates through each of her amazing works.

My writing portfolio continues to swell with feature stories about each of the artists and businesses I work with. The site has also recently undergone a beautiful makeover, also linked below.

We hope you all have a wonderful season, and wish you all the best of health, happiness, food, family and fun that comes with the cooler days and longer nights. Do keep us posted of your own news and events, and feel free to contact us should you wish to jump start your own art business.

Until next time, I am...

Artfully yours,

Lisa 

Susan Marx

An Abstract Impressionist Painter Who Loves Color

currently showing at Agora Gallery, NYC

Fields Near Roussillon, France, 30x24, acrylic on canvas

Artist Susan Marx describes her work as Modern Abstract Impressionism, combining the light of the Impressionists, the brilliant color of the Fauves, and the energy of the Abstract Expressionists, to create shapes out of quick, assertive paint-filled strokes. Inspired by the French Impressionists, Marx works en plein air (outside), much the way her muses did with a concern for light, air and especially color. 

Marx's bright, light-filled paintings burst with vibrant color providing a very personal, modern 'abstraction' of the period with a distinctive style that is uniquely her own. Her process involves becoming one with the earth. By working barefoot in the fields she has direct physical contact with her subject matter, taking in the landscape through all the senses of vision, touch, smell and hearing, using herself as a filter to process these elements onto her canvas. 

Susan Marx painting at Presby Gardens, Montclair, NJ (photo by Michael Barkal)

I am drawn to a specific spot for some indefinable reason. I look and look. I load my palette, pick up a brush, holding it as a conductor would hold his baton, and begin. At that point, I don't speak to the canvas, instead the canvas speaks to me. My feet are barefoot feeling the grass; I smell the air and the flowers in front of me. I am transported. I paint, but lose the concept of time. Fast, faster, passionately painting, furiously painting. I cannot get the colors down fast enough. Then suddenly I need air. I stop and step back to look at my canvas one more time. The painting is done. 

Working with acrylics allows the artist to

record her color impressions

almost as quickly as her mind processes the subject

and with an immediacy that other medium don't allow.  

The artist loves color and sees color everywhere, capturing the essence of the color and the emotion in her work, leaving the rest to the viewer's imagination, thereby making him/her an active participant in her work... often leaving some of the canvas blank so the work can breathe, a process that illuminate her brushstrokes that much more dynamically through the stark contrast of blank canvas and brilliant color.
 

I don't paint flowers. I paint flowers to paint color.

Someone once told Marx she works to the muse of Monet, Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell, which she was thrilled about. These are the artists that inspired her, guiding her artistic development, leading to her own very personal expression and allowing her to introduce her viewers to a beautiful world of color, light and energy. 
 

Susan's home base is Orange, New Jersey, but her paintings provide a travelogue of her journeys. From the shores and nearby parks of her home state in New Jersey to the European travels calling her to the same landscapes her muses were drawn to, Marx's works speak not only to her process and artistic influences, but to her love of travel as well... and are as much a testament to the beauty she finds in her travels as the uniqueness of her work itself. 

My art comes from my radical amazement at the visual world around me, and my need to turn that experience into paint.

Nature is my starting point, but not my end result.

I observe nature very carefully and respond spontaneously

to what I see and feel. I think of painting as drawing in color, relating warm and cool with each expressive paint-filled brushstroke, my personal handwriting.  

Susan received a BFA in Painting from Boston University, College of Fine Arts, where she studied with Walter Murch, David Aronson, Karl Fortess and Robert Qwathmey.

She has taken painting seminars in Giverney France, in Monet's garden and in Normandy; as well as in Arles, St. Remy de Provence, France, tracing the steps of Van Gogh.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows

and is in private collections throughout the world.

Susan is currently represented by Ashok Jain Gallery

and Agora Gallery in New York,

where she will be featured in an upcoming group show entitled Modalities of Expression:

 

Or visit Susan Marx at:  

www.susanmarxartist.com/ 

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