Paintings by Marilyn Fenn
Class notes from Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew Long, Fall 2007 The object in the painting – is it being an object vs. being a facsimile of the object? Does it have a history, a great hook, and richness, a fullness, or is it empty? What’s the difference between this abstract piece of art [...]
Tags: acrylic painting, Andrew Long, Matthew Ritchie, Mia Pearlman, supplies, technique
I am an abstract painter. I received my BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I now live in Austin, TX, and paint primarily in oil, acrylic and encaustic. 
I like Chinatown. It’s had an influence on my life! The colors of the signage really affected me early on. This goes back to the old Lower East side too where you’d see reds, yellows and blues and just garish raucous colors really compressed together. The whole area is compressed and my studio is small so it’s compressed too. The compression in my work comes at least partially out of that.
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