I use the visual language of color and texture created with acrylics and medium, to express the freedom and strength of the human mind, memory, emotions and spirit. I am very interested in how we “see” the world around us, which I view as highly personal. My work utilizes color and tone and how they play off of each other to produce a visual dialogue, creating a rhythm and sometimes teasing the eye. Much of my work uses repetition and symmetry to achieve my goals. From a distance, colors and shapes often move and blur. My work is very process driven and I often engage in self imposed limits and systems to show the boundless creative and formal possibilities within these confines.
- Marcia Fraerman 2025
1976 | BA Art History and Education, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
2018 | Spacial Ambiguity, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2010 | In the Mind's Eye, Gallery G, Glencoe, IL |
2007 | Sharp Edges, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL |
2005 | Alumni Exhibition, Highland Park High School, Highland Park, IL |
2025 | Chappy, Slip House, Lelands Pass, Edgartown, MA |
2025 | Not Going Back: Cause Good Prints, Online Artsy Benefit for the Center for Reproductive Rights |
2023 | LK Art Consultants, Glencoe, IL |
2021 | FreshLens Benefit Auction, Chicago, Il |
2018 | FreshLens Benefit Auction, Chicago, Il |
2012 | Benefit Art Auction, ORT Gala, Highland Park, IL |
2011 | Benefit Art Auction, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL |
2009 | Benefit Art Auction, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL |
2006 | Student Show, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL |
2005 | Summer Art Festival, Michigan City, MI |
2002 | Studio of Evolving Artists, Noyes Street Cafe, Evanston, IL |
2024 | “Minor Matters”, symposium on the economics of scale, Barely Fair by Julius Caesar, Color Club, Chicago, Il |
2023 | “Collecting Art: A Lifestyle with Purpose”—essential insights on the power of living with art and building community by supporting the arts. With Marcia Fraerman and Abby Pucker, LK Art Consultants, Glencoe, Il |
Sheridan Road, “In the Color Weave”, by Monica Kass Rogers, October 2023
The New Art Examiner, “Spatial Ambiguity”, by Bruce Thorn, September/October, 2018
Chicago Fine Art Blogspot, “Spatial Ambiguity”, by Chuck Gniech July 5, 2018
“Spatial Ambiguity” mini review by Dan Ramirez on Facebook, July 21, 2018
Chicago Gallery News, “Spatial Ambiguity”, July 2018
The Visualist, Chicago Visual Arts Calendar, July 2018
Email: | mefraerman@comcast.net |