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Several pieces from my Floating World Series are included in the exhibition “Abstraction + Surrealism” at Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine St. in Philadelphia. The opening is Friday, February 1, from 6 to 8 pm. It’s First Friday Art Hop night in Philly. Come and say hello. Here’s one of the works on view: Floating World 6,…

Floating World 7 on the wall at Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine St. in Philadelphia, until October 14th. The DVAA members’ exhibition “Artist, Writer, Reader” pairs a work of art with text chosen by the artist. I chose a wall label from the exhibit “Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams” at MOMA. Kingelez is a visionary…

Floating World 5 is in a group show in Portland, OR, at Verum Ultimum Gallery, 3014 NE Ainsworth St. The exhibition, Abstract Catalyst 5, continues through September 23.  All the art in the show can be previewed at verumultimumartgallery.com, on Instagram and Facebook. Happy to be part of this show. Hope you enjoy viewing it!  …

Calligraphic marks sometimes appear in my work. I started including these graphisms in large oil paintings in the 1980s. They continue to reflect my love of Chinese calligraphy mated with impulses to communicate meaning in ways that lay along side of language.           Detail from Floating World 7, 2018.   I recently…

Words to live by from 1990’s notebook.   marilyn stubblebine            

In conversation with art patron Agnes Gund, in response to “Why use bright color?”, Ellsworth Kelly replied: I want some joy in what I do. I can dig that! Thinking of color:  Color can release the weight of any sentiment. A spectrum of color supports a spectrum of feelings. Neighboring color reactions depend on things…

The Red Page has hung around for years in various piles and boxes of sketches and cut paper. Several layers of red acrylic paint over a page from a mystery paperback. Where to go with it? ____ It has had a strong and consistent hold on me for all these years. Usually I would pick…

A few faint calligraphic swirls make an appearance in Floating World 4. A FEW FAINT CALLIGRAPHIC SWIRLS. WHY? To tell you something to speak to you to to connect to you  Want you to listen to say Something to listen to To want to be listened To hear what is seen To look to see to say Like the…

Lines, color, shapes forming reforming alliances to the watchful eye.   In progress:      

  A “this looks familiar” feeling accompanied my work on this painting beyond the fact that it is a continuation of the first Through the Green painting influenced by Bridget Riley. Elements from large oil paintings done decades ago hovered respectfully at a distance: an overall quality of interconnecting shapes and an underpinning of line…