MEDIUM oil, pastels & collage
FEATURED WORK
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WEBSITE maryannficker.com
STATEMENT
I see painting as a developmental stage; children learn to crawl, walk, talk, paint, read and write. I am interested in using the language of paint in the same way that poets use words, creating something that washes over the viewer incorporating emotion, rhythm, symbols, archetypes, observations and narrative elements; something to be primarily experienced, rather than analyzed.
BIO/CV
Education:
Fine Art: 2005 – 2006, Somerset Art Association – painting.
1980 – 1981, University of New Mexico, Post-graduate study in
printmaking and painting.
1977 – 1980, SUNY Albany, 27 credits of studio art, printmaking,
painting and drawing.
MA – Computer Science, 1986, CUNY Queens College
BS – Mathematics, 1980, SUNY Albany.
Recent Awards:
2012 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency, Nebraska City, NE
Monmouth Museum 33rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition – Honorable Mention 2010:
Watchung Arts Center Member’s Juried Show – First Place
Somerset Art Association, Members Juried Show – Honorable Mention
2009: Watchung Education Foundation Art in the Park – First Place
Recent Exhibitions:
2013: Watchung Arts Center Member’s Juried Show, Watchung, NJ
2012: Contemporary Art Group, The Artist Framer, Cranford, NJ
Art on the Ridge, Basking Ridge, NJ
Arts on Division Street, Somerville, NJ
Patterns in Nature, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Siclare, Ficker, Lam, and Verdun, Farmstead Art Center,Basking Ridge,NJ
Recent Works, Mayo Center for the Performing Arts, Morristown, NJ
33rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2011: Personal Realities, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ (Solo)
After School Special, University Art Museum, Albany, NY
Salem Roadhouse Café, Union, NJ (Solo)
The Allbrook School, Basking Ridge, NJ (Solo)
The Center for Contemporary Art Member’s Juried Show, Bedminster, NJ
Landscapes: Interior and Exterior, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
The Artist Framer, Cranford, NJ
Bernardsville Public Library 11th Annual Juried Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ
2010: Watchung Arts Center Member’s Juried Show, Watchung, NJ
Art Way Gallery at Princeton Alliance Church, Plainsboro, NJ
Contemporary Art Group, Artist Framer, Cranford, NJ
Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ
Transformergence, Watchung Arts Ctr, Watchung, NJ
Somerset Art Association Member’s Juried Show, Bedminster, NJ
Joy! First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, Plainfield, NJ
Garden Gallery at the Reeves Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ
Somerset Cultural and Heritage Commission, Somerville, NJ
2009: Raid the Attic, Watchung Arts Ctr, Watchung, NJ
Member’s Juried Show, Somerset Art Association, Bedminster, NJ
Member’s Juried Show, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Contemporary Art Group, Overlook Hospital, Summit, NJ
Watchung Education Foundation Art in the Park, Watchung, NJ
Contemporary Art Group, Children’s Specialized Hospital, Summit, NJ
The Wednesday Group, First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, Plainfield, NJ
Contemporary Art Group, Les Malamut Gallery, Union, NJ
Somerset Cultural and Heritage Commission, Somerville, NJ