Marilyn Banner
Takoma Park, MD
Artist Marilyn Banner works works in encaustic and mixed media.
MessageCollection: Scenes of Childhood (1997-98)
The Jewish families that came from Eastern Europe and settled in the six-family apartment complexes of the Delmar "loop" of St. Louis in the 1940's are the basis of these paintings that are alternatively called "Scenes from Childhood" or "Honoring the Ancestors." These intimate and magical works refer to family members, apartments, streets, alleys, and backyards of childhood, and mix them with other "spiritual" relatives and divine emanation. This is childhood re-visioned by the loving gaze of successful adulthood.
These paintings often begin with the transfer of personal and/or meaningful photographic images onto chiffon fabric, which is then adhered to the canvas, along with other fabric elements. Sometimes the original photo images can still be seen through the acrylic paint, and sometimes they are entirely transformed or obscured. Color and space are playful and imaginative in these works, as if the inhabitants of the paintings exist not just in this world, but also in some wondrous heavenly world that we see only through visions, dreams, and art.
Medium: acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Size range: 8”x10”-12”x16”
Year completed: 1997-1998
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