Bio
MARJORIE SAYER
Marjorie Sayer’s goal is to explore ways to experiment with the figure and landscape in different spatial relationships. She wants the figure to exist and be recognizable but gradually become more abstract by bold strokes of color and gesture. The finished paintings are a result of numerous layers of paint creating a sense of tension between areas of lightness and heaviness, having human forms that seem to emerge, then disappear. “I love the expressive tactile quality that I arrive at by using Impasto oil paint applied with a palette knife. The creation of the painting is rapid and the result is texture and exhilaration,“ she says. Her response to both the figure and to landscape is immediate. It is visceral. Charcoal highlights the gesture in mark making. She says that landscapes are another matter; they embrace the ground, sky, barns and are joyful and rich with color.
Ms. Sayer received her BFA from Cornell University, with a semester abroad at the University of Florence, Italy. She studied for her Masters in History of Art at NYU and the University of Munich, Germany; painted at Arts Student League in NYC. She studied at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln MA, after many years not having painted, with Tim Harney, a task master of organization, clear color and form. In 2010, Sayer participated in Vermont Week at the Vermont Studio Center. She moved to Sarasota in October 2014. She is a Member of the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota and Program co-chair for Women Contemporary Artists.
EXHIBITIONS
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY June 2003
Latchis Hotel, Brattleboro December 2007-February 2008
ILLUMINATIONS, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cancer Center June-September 2008
C X Silver Gallery Brattleboro VT
Art In the Park, Sarasota March 14-16, 2014
Honorable Mention
Vermont Artisan and Design October 2014-January 2015
LIGHT CHASERS, Sarasota February 28-March 2015
ART IN THE PARK 1st prize March 20-22nd, 2015
COMCENTER Lakewood Ranch, FL December 2015
WOMEN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS April 2016 1st prize
WOMEN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS May 2017 1st Prize
ARTISTS ON MAIN, SARASOTA February to March 2018
Manatee Art Center Show December 2018
Chasen Gallery May 2019
Art Center Sarasota, Honorable Mention September 2019
Florida Cancer and Research
Lakewood Ranch October 2019-March 2020
Arts Advocates at the Arts Alliance October 2019
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Vermont Veterans Home, Bennington, VT
8147 Abingdon Court
University Park, FL 34201
941 346 6264
Marjorie.Sayer@gmail.com
MarjorieSayerArtist.com
