Paintings by Marilyn Fenn
I just learned that Ray Yoshida, one of the Chicago Imagists and one of my painting teachers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, passed away this week. I studied with him in an advanced painting studio for one semester: he once told me my work was “too sentimental.” (Thank goodness!). I’m sad [...]
Tags: art teachers, Ray Yoshida, SAIC
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. 
Sometimes if you are working through the night you just stay up and don’t go to sleep until six or seven in the morning, and I feel like you have to take advantage of that groove you’re in. If you’re in the mood and things are going well, you just ride that.
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