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She attended Yale University, School of Fine Arts and Columbia University.
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Marcia Marx
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After completing her studies, Marcia Marx moved to Mexico City where she lived for more than 10 years and received her inspiration for visual imagery. "Blue Figures In The Studio" is one such example. As a "visual satirist", Marcia Marx’s works, paintings and sculptures, showed a sense of the ridiculous and an eye for the bizarre and comedic elements in the human experience.
Marx’s works clearly reflected her strong mastery of medium and message.
As an artist, Marcia Marx was versatile with an assortment of media ranging from paints to clay and left the "storytelling" and interpretation to the public - "Number matter what I was thinking when I created it, the viewer writes his or her own script making it a far more intriguing experience", the artist once stated. She was the first woman to have a one-person show at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, which Time magazine called a "smash hit".
She was also one of six artists featured Cosmopolitan"s article "Women Artists Today", which also included Georgia O"Keeffe and Louise Nevelson. Prior to her death on May 3, 2005 in New York City, after a two-year battle with cancer, Marcia Marx participated in two major exhibitions.
When it was confirmed that Marcia Marx’s works would be exhibited at the Houston Holocaust Museum, the museum’s executive director, Susan Llanes-Myers exclaimed, "We are so pleased to have Marcia Marx’s art at out museum.
Her work strikingly portrays a sense of remembrance, a core of our mission."
Remembrance is Marx’s theme. unsettling as well as consoling."
During her career, Marcia Marx worked in Mexico City, Israel, Paris, Rome, and New York City.
