EDUCATION

1976 MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts

1973 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, Massachusetts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 H. Pelham Curtis Gallery
New Canaan, Connecticut
The Worn City

2005 The University of Szeged
Szeged, Hungary
Paintings that Fit in a Suitcase

2003 The DeBottis Gallery
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Gouaches and Solar Etchings

2001 The DeBottis Gallery
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Painting and Work on Paper

1999 Akar Architecture & Design
Iowa City, Iowa
Painting and Work on Paper

1999 The DeBottis Gallery
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Painting and Sculpture

1999 The Philadelphia Art Alliance Members' Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Work on Paper

1998 The Germantown Academy Arts Center Gallery
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Painting and Work on Paper

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007  Artyfakt Gallery
Singapore

2005 Art Bar Artists at Ithaca Fine Chocolates
Ithaca, New York

2005 The DeBottis Gallery
West Chester, Pennsylvania

2005 Bryant Street Gallery
Palo Alto, California

2005 Art Gotham
New York, New York

2004 The DeBottis Gallery
West Chester, Pennsylvania

1999 The Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art for Artists' Sake

1998 The Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Abstract Strategies, A Selection of Regional Artists

PUBLICATIONS

Cook, Michael, The Art of Marilyn Kirsch: A ‘Transcendental Minimalism’
Ducts www.ducts.org, Issue 18, Winter 2007

Cook, Michael, Lyrical Abstraction as an Artform,
Artinsight www.artinsight.com, March 2006

Crossett, Laura E., Exotic Shades of Ordinary Colors;
The recent artwork of Marilyn Kirsch,
ICON, Iowa City, Iowa, VII, July 8-14, 1999, p.11.

Masheck, Joseph, Neo-Neo,
Artforum, XVIII, September, 1979, p.40.

Plous, Phyllis, Contemporary Drawing / New York,
University of California, Santa Barbara 1978, p.28.

STATEMENT

My work is somewhere between abstract and completely non-objective. At times there seem to be recognizable images in my paintings, but these images lack definite boundaries and oscillate between possibilities. I am interested in the tension that occurs when perception is not absolutely clear.

I utilize both a control of the medium and an allowance for the accidental. Shifts of the image occur while I work and become part of the finished piece. The completed painting is my response to the unsettling relationship between random acts and carefully planned decisions. In every work I am concerned with the physical properties of the material and the metaphorical content of the image.

COLLECTIONS

AT&T, New York, New York

Chemical Bank, New York, New York

Diverse Productions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gecko Advertising Group, West Chester, Pennsylvania

Graham Gund Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harcourt Health Sciences Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

International Transport Finance Limited, New York, New York

Mellon-PSFS Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mitchell Community College, Statesville, North Carolina

Wachovia Bank, Winston-Salem, North Carolina