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Marlene Tseng Yu was born in 1937 and came to the U.S. in 1963. From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967. She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968. Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, “Forces of Nature." Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation (2001 to present).
Qualifications
As of September 2008 - MARLENEresume2008.pdf (English)
As of March 2006 - MARLENEresume2006inChinese.pdf (Chinese)
Marlene Tseng Yu was born in 1937 and came to the U.S. in 1963. From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967. She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968. Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, “Forces of Nature." Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation (2001 to present).
Qualifications
- As of September 2008, Marlene Tseng Yu has had an
impressive total of 59 solo
exhibitions
in the
- Marlene’s art has been reviewed in 8 languages in more than 140 publications, by numerous art magazines, newspapers, TV, and radio shows, such as ARTFORUM, Art in America, Art News, World Journal, and Barbara Walters’ Today Show.
- Marlene’s
has received several awards for
achievement
in the arts. In 2005, she received the
first “Muse” Fine
Arts Award in the Muralist Paintings category at the inaugural ARTV
Awards in
- Marlene’s paintings are included in over 1000 non-profit and corporate collections. Marlene is able to do commission work according to requirements of large-scale architectural projects.
As of September 2008 - MARLENEresume2008.pdf (English)
As of March 2006 - MARLENEresume2006inChinese.pdf (Chinese)
The
beauty of the universe changes with time. As
the days
pass and the seasons change, the sky, earth, mountains and rivers
repeat
in patterns that are never really quite the same. In my search for the
variations of the many faces in nature, I have found that nature
provides
an infinite source of inspiration for artistic expression. I love the
many
elements in our environment, be they as broad as the horizon beyond or
small as cells under the microscope. In this vast setting, I hope to
capture
the spirit of the universe, its rhythm and movements, its quiet and
angry
moods, its colors and forms...
With
the traditional Chinese and
Western art training,
together with
my own experiments, I have sought to create techniques that can fully
express
my ideas and feelings. The techniques may vary greatly from painting to
painting, as to embody the scope of my expression. The reference to
nature
is the focus of all my paintings. I have found that painting in water
media
- acrylic demands an absolute control of the medium to achieve the
various
effects, textures, and transparencies. The scale of the painting is a
challenge,
but not a limitation for me. To produce on canvas or paper what I have
in my mind, my ideas and feelings on the universe, is a great challenge.
--Marlene Tseng Yu, September 16, 1968
