ARTIST STATEMENT

Since I am a child the possibilities and theme of escape have intrigued me. Seeking, exploring and escaping are themes I develop when creating an archive of visual perceptions. Through my painting I establish a found and gathered vocabulary for a body of work, often in response to a place. I incorporate imperfections in my hand-drawn lines and the slippage of paint over the border. Jarring colors and harsh angles take a backstage to blues, greens, and earthy colors. Geometry becomes a different kind of nature, repeating one image in many variations or forms. At its basis, escape involves forgetting the known.

BIOGRAPHY

Marlies Kuhn was born in Schwerin, a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, East Germany, in 1978. She studied Fine Art in Norway, Denmark and Germany where she earned her Masters in Fine Art at the Muthesius Academy in 2011. Her work has appeared internationally in exhibitions among others at Skostredet in Bergen/Norway, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen/Denmark, the Hanse Office in Bruxelles/Belgium, the Overbeck Gesellschaft in Lübeck/Germany, the WE International Hub in Shanghai/China. She was awarded by the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein/Germany and the German Academic Exchange Service. Kuhn has received a residency from the Hanseatic city of Rostock/Germany and was recently as an Artist in Residence at The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai where she was at work on her new Artists Book.