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Marianne Gargour is a painter and freelance graphic designer. She currently lives and works in the Lakewood neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. She has been painting for 22 years. She has been inspired to actively paint ever since she took her first high school painting class where she would paint and view exhibits in Washington DC and take trips to New York.
Marianne turned down a scholarship to Pratt Institute to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where she received her B.A. in Humanities. She received a scholarship to study landscape painting and limestone sculpture in Provence, France with the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Marianne worked at the Phillips gallery in Washington D.C. where she
was inspired by the works of Bonnard and Deibenkorn to pursue her
painting further. She moved to New York City where she
Among other things she has been an art director for YMCA camping in Massachusetts, a teacher for the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, California, and an art consultant to public schools in the Bay Area. She also worked as a 3-D demo artist for the education division of AutoDesk in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
When work opportunities brought her family to Dallas, Marianne
worked to receive a M.S. in Graphic Design at Texas A & M University
while doing an internship at Southern Methodist University in the
marketing department. Since then she has worked as an art director
at Tracy Locke Advertising agency Marianne is excited to have the opportunity to share her new body of work with you.
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“These new still lives are a fusion of my painterly appreciation for color with my designers sensibility for order and clean lines. Only the essentials appear thus leaving out any extraneous information that might hinder clarity. Above all, these pieces are about having fun & dreaming big. I am painting the purple shadows of pink frosting, while my kids plead to eat my luscious still lives that melt under the heat of the studio lights.” -Marianne Gargour |
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