Marlene Struss

I describe my highly individualistic style as biomorphic abstract expressionism with an Asian influence. Rather than try to teach a lesson or tell a story with my paintings, I know if I have faith in my aesthetic sense, I will produce a visual experience that excites me and also speaks to the viewer. For me abstract painting is absorbing, engaging play. It is exhilarating exploration of acrylic paint of varying viscosities applied or removed with unusual tools and forces creating colors, textures, lines, and illusions that all work together. My process emulates the game of life where the future is unpredictable while the past never completely disappears. Each layer of fenestrated color is an aesthetic response to the previous ones until the resulting imagery suggests space, movement, geography or organic forms that are unknown possibilities in a micro- or macroscopic natural environment. And thus the work of art unfolds like a life unplanned but closer to harmony with the universe at every juncture. My inspiration comes from the patterns of nature and wordless music of all types. The paintings pay homage to the mysteries and paradoxes of creation and serve as an antidote to the anxiety of the manmade world.

Submitted by Walter Wickiser Gallery