Marilyn Lindner

marilyn lindner

My passion with the arts began when I encountered Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery and its fine collection of contemporary art. I was born in Western New York in Buffalo, which is situated on the shores of Lake Erie. I received a B.S. in Education from a Buffalo College When my husband and I relocated to Syracuse, New York, I applied to Syracuse University and received my B.F.A. in Painting from S.U.

Some of my professional experiences include Adjunct Instructor of Art, plus serving as academic advisor to students majoring in the visual arts, at Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York. I also served as a teaching artist for the Central New York Institute for the Arts in Education as-sociated with the Syracuse Cultural Council .The latter included Coordinator of the Visual Arts Program.

An interesting project was designing an installation for the Civic Center and Galleries of Syracuse, New York, titled “One Thousand Cranes”. Another was as program illustrator for the Society of New Music, Syracuse, New York.

Later on, in Connecticut working on my Masters degree, I was a teaching assistant at Western Connecticut State University; plus member of the Graduate Curator Council.

I had entered a new master’s program in Connecticut. An opportunity for a private study workshop in Washington, Connecticut, with artist Hugh O’Donnell came up and I was encouraged to enter the program. At the time I had lived for two years on a small barrier island outside of Charleston, S.C. I moved to Brookfield, Connecticut and two years later received my M.F.A.

Grants and Fellowships include three grants at Vermont Studio Center and in 2002 I received an Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship at the Na-tional Academy of Design, NYC. Richard Haas, Muralist, was the director.

Regarding my art, I want it to come from an authentic place-to pierce something deeper. Much of my work is non-objective. Unconscious feel-ings and emotions can be evoked. This process can be a way to get in touch with the unconscious part of our existence, even if we don’t real-ize it.

Jacques Maritain states in Christian art, everything sacred and the profane, belongs to it. God does not ask for “religious” art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.