My work in New York

I am delighted to be included in this Charity Auction this Week: Jan 6-8, 2012 in New York

The 14th Annual Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS is this WEEK!

Featuring artworks by Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, John Waters, Donald Baechler, Marilyn Minter, Ed Ruscha, Polly Apfelbaum, Adam Fuss, Kiki Smith, John Baldessari, Louise Fishman, Ross Bleckner, Barry McGee, Kay Rosen, Marcel Dzama, Jonathan Lasker, Mary Heilmann, Louise Lawler, Bill Jensen, Jane Hammond, Ann Hamilton, Hans Haacke, William Wegman, Kate Shepherd, Zoe Leonard, Jack Pierson, Lawrence Weiner, Pat Steir, Thomas Woodruff, Peter Bright and over 1450 others…!!!

Tell your friends – and be sure to join us at the Preview Party and Benefit Sale!

All events hosted at Cheim & Read, 547 W 25th Street, NY, NY

BENEFIT SALE – $85 each. (Cash, check, credit cards accepted)
Over 1450 anonymously displayed postcard size artworks
Saturday, January 7, 2012 from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
$85 each – Buy four and get the fifth as our Thank You.
First-come, first-served.  Lines begin early…
• Waiting in line early? The Van Leeuwen truck will be on 25th Street on Saturday at 9 AM with hot coffee and sweet treats.
• Don’t want to wait in line…bid on a VIP Access package*

Sunday, January 8, 2012 from 12:00 – 4:00 PM
$85 each – Buy two and get the third as our Thank You.
• Don’t like lines, join us on Sunday, hundreds of beautiful artworks and some hidden gems will still be available.

PREVIEW PARTY
Friday, January 6, 2012 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM
The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition.  No sales.
$85 admission includes one raffle ticket.
Admission payable at the door. Participating artists attend free.
• RAFFLE
One raffle ticket with price of admission. Additional raffle tickets $10 each.
GRAND PRIZE – First pick of ANY POSTCARD that evening!
Additional Prizes includes – Pearl Paint Gift Card, Chelsea Frames, Museum passes, NY Health & Racquet Club membership and more!
• SILENT AUCTION
Artworks by Mark Beard, Barton Lidice Benes, Suzanne Caporael, Neil Farber, Joy Garnett, Barbara Hammer, David Humphrey, James Jaxxa, Larry Krone, Lucas Michael, Carrie Moyer, Dawit Petros, David Reed and Eric Rhein.  Also auction of Second Pick of any postcard that evening, and *VIP Access packages granting “the front of the line” access to Saturday’s Postcards from the Edge Benefit Sale. View and bid on artworks here.

Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized artworks by established and emerging artists. All artwork is exhibited anonymously. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don’t know who created which piece until after purchased. With the playing field leveled, all participants can take home a piece by a famous artist, or someone who is just making their debut. Nonetheless, collectors walk away with a piece of art they love, knowing that the money raised will support HIV prevention and AIDS awareness.

Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS.  Cash, check, credit cards accepted.

Check out our Facebook page for sneak-peeks.

Share the word – add a link to your Facebook page or blog today!


Woodcut (#printmaking) – Nude for sale, beat price increase.

Due to administrative costs all my paintings and prints will be going up in the next few weeks This is unfortunate but it is a sign of the times.

I would like to thank all my clients (collectors) for their support during 2011 and I am pleased that my work is now in Asia and that I am still still getting support from the USA.

Nude (woodcut print)

£43.72

This series of woodcuts is available to purchase. This image was exhibited in the 150 Building at West Buckland School, North Devon. This woodcut is printed over pages of an old directory of important people from the early 20th century. Each print is unique and is hand printed (unframed) and is delivered free of charge.

Last chance to buy my #paintings on the cheap

The prices of the paintings for sale on MorgueGallery.com will be increasing in February, to avoid the increase purchase now.

La Belle et La Bête – £605.34

Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.Size: 1208mm x 802mm – Supplied in the original black studio frame.

ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T …
  • The act of being creative is a love hate thing – The Beauty and The Beast someone fetch a priest (ref. David Bowie)
    Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. liberated 12:47, April 7, 2011, from: http://en.wikipedia.org

Who was the first man in space? – Work in progress

Young men from opposing political viewpoints expand scientific and exploration boundaries for political kudos – but they were exciting times. Bring back the cold war – the world was a safer place and more interesting.

The Cold War was the period of history from roughly between 1946 and 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies. Although the chief military forces never engaged in a major battle with each other, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars, espionage, propaganda, conventional and nuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.

Cold War. (2011, December 2). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:43, December 4, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_War&oldid=463632314

Work in Progress

Triumphant Adventure

ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T …

The political and ideological polarity of Russia and the USA during the cold war (retrospectively) makes an interesting starting point for a new project. Apparently there are rumors that the early days of the Russian space program were not only motivated by military and scientific advancement but a search for a new world to populate – to put citizens of the Russian Republic on once they had realized their ambitions of ensuring immortality. There was no God in Russia (officially) and the USA put their trust in God, both were chasing the same dreams, immortality and history. Gagarin achieved both by  becoming a God (hero) in his own country and the rest of the world – all gods die young.

As an 11 year old I watched the first moon landing in 1969. I was mad about everything to do with space travel, I would read anything that was about rockets, cosmonauts and astronauts. Later in my life I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of my all time hero Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, that was for me like touching history, if only secondhand (excuse the pun).

I was rummaging through old boxes of stuff and found the newspaper cutting of an astronaut on the moon – yellowed and faded – it still makes my heart flutter. I wish I’d been to the moon.

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All my love Marni
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