Marjorie Mau
Artist's Statement:
"My works are about the act of painting and drawing, how the material moves and layers, is added to and subtracted from. While this process may seem enough, it is through the working of surfaces and transformation of symbols the images find their clarity.
In the removal of paint, in unpainting, it is unexpected for there to be more; but I have come to know presence in this absence. Underlays of paint have all the windswept and scraped landscape features of the windrowed fields of the Midwest. Ever present horizontals countered with verticals are made
real through linear overlays. Long interested in land as place and as a reservoir of form, aerial flights over midsections of the country provide microcosms of line, shape and space from what was expansive.
Working alternately between painting and drawing leads to series of works, mindful that my next work is almost always generated from the last. It is here that my desire to paint as I draw reverses itself; and I unsuspectingly draw as I paint, moving the materials of drawing as I do paint, the same commitment to line, surface and edge holding true. That I have adopted vessel forms of enclosure and containment from the map of aerials and have extracted fluted ceramic vessels into painted surfaces, speaks to the connection I have with these glazed vestiges.
A rhythm moves through my studio as I work, repetition of line and form taking on the same pattern of breathing. What is reduced in the practice of making leaves room for that eloquent mystery of stillness. What remains is revealed in a porous yet orderly balance."
Education Bachelor of Arts, Honors
University of Wisconsin Green Bay 1979
Continued Study in Painting
University of Wisconsin Green Bay 2001-2002
Continuing Workshops
Anderson Ranch, Colorado Enrique Martinez Celaya 2006
Gregory Amenoff, Lawrence Rinder, Ann Lautenbach 2005
Jane Hammond; Squeak Carnwath; 2003-2004
Timothy Berry; Emily Cheng
Peninsula Art School, Wisconsin: Wendell Arneson 1996-2007
UW Green Bay: Encaustic Painting: Kristy Deetz 2008
Professional History Ad Hoc Instructor, Drawing
University of Wisconsin Green Bay 1999
Gallery Staff
Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI
1990-1993
Special Project Coordinator, Curatorial Staff
John Michael Kohler Art Center
Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1989-1990
Associate Curator of Art & Ad Hoc Instructor
Exhibition Development & Design,
University of Wisconsin Green Bay
1984-1987
Collections
(A Selection) Aid Association for Lutherans, Appleton, Wisconsin
American Express Financial, Green Bay, Wisconsin
R. W. Baird & Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cramer, Multrop, Curran Law Firm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cuna Mutual Insurance, Madison, Wisconsin
First Wisconsin Bank, Waunakee, Wisconsin
Fort Howard Foundation, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Galman & Lepow Design, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Hatch Temporary Services, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Little Rapids Paper Corporation, Green Bay, Wisconsin
M & I Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MacDonald Corporation, Oakbrook, Illinois
Motorola Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Mutual Insurance, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Northland Insurance Company, St. Paul, Minnesota
Northwest Mutual Insurance, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Park Bank, Madison, Wisconsin
Persoft Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin
Planning Association, Madison, Wisconsin
Republic Savings & Loan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
St. Luke Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
San Diego National Bank, San Diego, California
Schidler Group, Chicago, Illinois
Stafford, Rosenbaum Law Firm, Madison, Wisconsin
Strauss Printing Company, Madison, Wisconsin
University Hospitals, Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Wisconsin Green Bay
Exhibitions
(A Selection) 2008 Abstract Work in Series, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor, WI
2008 Collection Invitational, Francis Hardy Center for the Arts, Ephraim, WI
2006 Drawn In: Wisconsin Artists Invitational Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2006 Exploring the Wisconsin Landscape: Four Directions, Lawton Gallery, UWGreen Bay, WI
2005 About the Land – MB Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2004 Abstraction, Woodwalk Gallery, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
2004 Common Ground, Francis Hardy Center for the Arts, Ephraim, Wisconsin
2003 ArtMilwaukee: Festival of Art + Ideas - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2003 Wisconsin Artists Biennial - Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors, University of Wisconsin Madison
2002 Unconventional Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Wisconsin
1995 The Gift - solo exhibit of illustrations, process of bookmaking, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
1994 Formed and Fired: A Ceramics Invitational - Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
1989 New Works: Marjorie Mau/Marilyn Hart - Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1988 Explorations in Paper and Clay: A Group Show - Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
1988 Hands Making Paper Exhibition - Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1988,83 Feature Exhibition - Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
1988 Ceramic Dimensions: Crafts in the New Age - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1985,86 Faculty Exhibition - University of Wisconsin Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin
1986 Festival of the Lakes - Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1986 The Box - Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1986 Reflections: The Inner Image - Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, California
1985 Screens - Selected artists from The Seuferer Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1985 Wisconsin Survey: Three Dimensional Art Today - University of Wisconsin, Madison
1984 Women and the Arts: Wisconsin - Three-artist exhibit, University of Wisconsin Platteville
1984 Symphony Show House Exhibit - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1984 Milking the Sacred Cow: A Salute to Wisconsin's Dairyland - Wustum Museum, Racine
1984 Sculptural Forms - Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1983 Chicago Vicinity Clay - Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1983 Wisconsin Ceramic Showcase - David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1983 Utilitarian Mud - Wisconsin Clay Artists, Milwaukee Art Museum
1983 The Softer Side of Ceramics: Curt Heuer/Marjorie Mau - University of WI Parkside, Racine
1983 10th Annual Corporation Show - Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1982 What's New in Clay - University of Houston, Texas
1982 Trends in Porcelain - A.R.T. Clay Company, Elk Grove Village, Illinois
1981 1981 National Cone Box Show - Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Publications Illustrator of Children's Books:
The Gift, authored by Robert F. Morneau
Kodomo Press, Stillwater, Minnesota 1994
The Tale From Paleface Creek, authored by Robert F. Morneau
Paulist Press, Mahwah, New Jersey 2000
Gallery Affiliation Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
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