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| “Anamosa Hills” © Marcia Wegman |
Name: Marcia Wegman, PSA
Bio: Marcia Wegman was born in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 1935. She
attended Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio, where she earned a BFA degree in
graphic design, Magna Cum Laude, in 1957. From 1957-1961, she studied at the
University of Iowa where she completed her MFA degree in intaglio printmaking
with with Mauricio Lasansky. Marcia then worked in oil, watercolor, acrylic,
handmade paper, and mixed media collage over a thirty-five year period. When
she tried painting an English Lake District landscape with an old set of
pastels she realized this was her perfect medium. She is now a signature member
of the PSA. The Midwest landscape has been a
lifelong inspiration, first in Ohio, then in Iowa. Marcia delights in
proving that Iowa is anything but boring in her paintings.
Her works have been selected for many group and one person exhibits
throughout the Midwest. She has been involved with Heifer International,
creating paintings reflecting a trip sponsored by that group through Lithuania
and Latvia in 2007. She also has received significant commissions from the
University of Iowa including a large quadriptych in 2008 from the College of
Medicine and several paintings commissioned by the College of Nursing. She
painted landscapes for the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Coralville,
Iowa. She also painted an Iowa landscape for MAPP, a private organization formed
to prevent 600 acres of farmland once painted by Grant Wood from being turned
into a county landfill. A number of her paintings have been made into limited
editions of prints to be used for fundraising purposes as well as sold by the
artist.
Marcia’s awards
include being a finalist in the International Artist Magazine, August/Sept
2010; a Merit Award at the Iowa State Fair Fine Art Exhibition 2010; and
winner of The Artist's Magazine Over 60 Competition, March 2011
She received an Honorable Mention in the Pastel 100, in April 2011, and was the feature of an article in the December 2013 issue of the Pastel Journal.
Marcia is the author/illustrator of a children’s book, Lula Belle, published by Outskirts Press in 2007.
Medium: Pastel;
Acrylic. Says Marcia, “Pastels lend themselves to developing the ephemeral
aspects of light and color in the landscape. I enjoy challenging myself in
constantly finding new ways to explore the forms, rhythm, lines, repetition,
light and color in the Iowa landscape.”
Subjects:
Landscape. Portraits (not her forte). Floral. Abstract.
Style:
Representational.
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Gallery: Iowa
Landscapes; Other Places; Abstract Paintings (all acrylic); Portraits; Florals;
Commissions (all acrylic).
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