MARCIA WEESE
Marcia Weese grew up in downtown Chicago and spent her childhood roller skating between the dense urban landscape and the natural world of crows, lightning bugs, oak trees and prairie grass. Her deepest inspiration comes from the natural world. This world informs her art, which these days takes the form of works on paper and prints.
With a background in sculpture, Weese works with several monotype techniques that combine texture with sculptural forms while capturing a luminosity that makes these voluptuous works on paper glow from within. Using the printing process to build layers of color, she ‘carves’ into the color field by wiping away just enough ink to reveal the hidden image. There is a palpable ‘object’ quality in Weese’s work that tugs on the boundaries between painting, drawing and sculpture. Today, happily nestled in the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado, she explores the mountains and rivers with her two dogs.