Bio

Born: Cleveland, OH
Lives and Works: Austin, TX

Marilyn Fenn creates non-objective paintings with a focus on color, line, shape, and space.  Working in encaustic, oil or acrylic, she explores how paint inhabits and defines a surface.  The common thread throughout all of Marilyn’s work is her unerring sense of color.

Marilyn’s work is self-informing: she begins with a basic idea, a color and a brushstroke or two, and then each stroke leads to the next.  The process is organic and evolutionary, allowing the work to take on a life of its own.  She is as much watching it happen as she is making it happen.

Though non-objective, the work often includes references to things in the real world that interest Marilyn, from the micro to the macro, from DNA and cellular structure to nebulae and the universe, and the various populations therein.

Marilyn has exhibited her work in juried and invitational local and national exhibitions, and is collected in private collections across the country and abroad.  She is a member of several art organizations, including Texas Wax, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin Museum of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association.

You can visit her studio by appointment.