Featured Member Artist: Marilyn Banner

Marilyn Banner 

Takoma Park, MD

 www.marilynbanner.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND MAJOR INSTALLATIONS


2011 A Sense of Place/ Ceres Gallery, New York, NYC ;
2011 A Sense of Place Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgely, MD
2009 Sacred Ground/Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD; 
2009 Sacred Ground/ Ceres Gallery, NYC 
2008 Scenes of Childhood/Georgetown University Lombardi Center, Wash. DC 
2008 Songs of Joy/Benfield Gallery, Severna Park, MD
2006 Soul Ladders/Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA 
2006 Still With Us/Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD
2005 Music Memory/Atlas Performing Arts Center, Wash. DC
2004 Rainforest Memories/Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington, DC
2003 I Am One/Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center, Fairfax, VA
2002 Still With Us/Paul Peck Humanities Institute/Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2001 Still With Us/Ceres Gallery, NYC
2000 Darkness into Light, Greenbelt Art Center, Greenbelt, MD 
1998 Ladders of Light/Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
1998 Ladders of Light/Ceres Gallery, NYC
1998 Presence of Spirit/Georgetown University Lombardi Center, Wash. DC 

1997 Ladders of Light/Art Space, Richmond, VA

1996 Presence of Spirit/Ceres Gallery, NYC

1994 Overview/Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville, MD

1993 Soul Ladders/Ceres Gallery, NYC 

1993 Retrospective/Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1993 As Far Back as Memory Reaches/District of Columbia Arts Center, Wash. DC

1990 Spirit Soundings/ Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD

1990 Rituals/Rights and Relics/C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH

1988 Skin: Beneath the Surface/School 33, Baltimore, MD

1988 Skin: Beneath the Surface/Gallery 10, Wash. DC

1986 In Search of Cambridge Springs/Edinboro University of PA, Edinboro, PA 

1986 Passage: The Soul’s Journey, Lanham, MD

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Exploring New Dimensions/ Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD

2011 Beeline/Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 Sanctuaries in Time/Barnard College, New York City
2011 Womens Nature/Ceres Gallery, New York City
2010 WCA Group Show/ Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick MD
2010 Drawing the Line/ National WCA/JWAN, Beverly Arts Center of Chicago, Sarah Giller, Juror
2010 Body Mind Spirit/, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, H McNamee, B Donovan, Curators
2010 Personal Armor (2)/ Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD T. Van Dyke, Curator 
2009 Hot for Wax/ York Arts, York PA, juried
2009 Personal Armor: Artists Look at Aprons/ Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA T. Van Dyke, Curator
2008 On the Edge/ Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Laura Moriarty, Juror
2008 VMRC National Juried Show/ Harrisonburg, VA
2008 The Fine Art of Freedom/ Baltimore JCC, Baltimore, MD Claudine Davison, Curator
2008 Letter Carriers, Shooting Star Gallery, Suffolk VA Trudi Van Dyke, curator

2008 New Work/ Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD 3 person show

2007 Words/Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (juried)

2007 Art on Paper/MFA Gallery, Annapolis, MD Helen Frederick, Juror

2007 Words Within/Barnard-Columbia University, Laura Kruger, juror
2007 Of Doors and Keys/ Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD Claudine Davison, Curator
2006 What Are You Looking At?/  Sub-Basement, Baltimore, MD,  Anne Clark Priftis, Curator
2004 In 2 Words// Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA Krystyna Wasserman, Juror
2004 Secrets of the Alephbet: The Mystical DNA/ Baltimore JCC, Baltimore. MD
2004 The Song of Songs / Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD
2003 The Art of Aging/ Hebrew Union College, NYC Laura Kruger, Curator 
2003 All Dolled Up Again/ Peninsula Fine Arts Cntr, Newport News, VA Trudi Van Dyke, Curator
2003 The Soul’s Journey Through the Bible/ Washington Theological Union, Wash, DC
2003 Identity and Memory/ Embassy of the Czech Republic, Wash, DC, w/Joyce Ellen Weinstein
2003 Creation/ Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD
2002 Bible on the Wall/ Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
2002 Angels and Messengers/ Ratner Museum, Bethesda. MD
2000 Way Off the Rack/Ellipse Art Center/, Arlington, VA Trudi Van Dyke, Curator
1998 Women/ Kunstlerforum/ Frauen Museum/ Bonn, Germany
1998 Abstracted/ Figured/ Exposed/ School 33, Baltimore, MD, Margo Crutchfield, juror
1998 Power Objects in the Here and Now/ Government House, Annapolis, MD (juried)
1996 Mysticism in Jewish Art/ B’nai B’rith National Jewish Museum, Wash, DC Ori Soltes,, Cur.
1996 Global Focus/ National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wash. DC
1995 Global Focus/Beijing, China and Moscow, Russia
1995 The Six Directions/ Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD Curator, Gary Irby
1994 The Realm of Myth/ Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD
1992 Operation Forward/ National Museum of Women in the Arts/Wash., DC (performance) 
1991 At the Crosshairs/ Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 

AWARDS/ HONORS/ FELLOWSHIPS

2009, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1995, 1993, 1992:  Fellowship Residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 2000 Inclusion in Who’s Who of American Women, 57^th ed.
1999 Corinne Mitchell Award, Women’s Caucus for Art/DC Area chapter
1990 Best of Show Cash Award/Matrix Gallery/Sacramento, CA 

1986 Best of Show/MLK Gallery Washington, DC

1982 MSEd Thesis with Honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010: Cover Art, More, by Barbara Crooker, C and R Press, publ.; 2009: Feature article, Standing on Sacred Ground, Lauren LaRocca, The Frederick News Post, August; 2009: The Art Scene, Interview by Lila Snow Montgomery Cable TV/May; “In the Brushstrokes”, Washington Post/March 19 2008: Listening to the Paint’s Music, August 6, review by Menachem Wecker, ”The Jewish Press; Searching for Oneness with the One: Mysticism in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions by Ori Z. Soltes. Rowman and Littlefield, publ.  2007: Zeek Magazine, Fall/Winter Edition, art work published; April 18, Jewish Press: Review by Menachem Wecker; Three “Music Memory” images reproduced in Mutuality Magazine; 2005:  February/reproduction of Terezin #12 in Presence, An International Journal of Spiritual Direction  2003: May/June/Cover Illustration/ Journal of the American Pharmacists Association; JAPhA article “Angel of the First Heaven #3" by Suzanne Scott and Lynne Constantine  2002  The Kali Guide by Stelli Munis “Fixing it and Fitting in: Contemporary Jewish American Women Artists” by Ori Z. Soltes, in Women and Judaism, ed. Leonard Greenspoon and Bryan Le Beau  Image/ Bible Review/Bethesda, MD  2001  Montgomery Cable TV interview/September Washington Post/ January  2000:  "Spirituality Into a New Millennium: Mysticism in Jewish Art" by Ori Soltes in Studies in Jewish Civilization, ed. L. Greenspoon and R. Simkins  Inclusion in Who’s Who of American Women/ 57^th Edition 

EDUCATION

Washington University (BFA 1968); Queens College, CUNY (1968-69); Montgomery College; University of Maryland; Massachusetts College of Art (MSEd 1982); Corcoran School of Art; R&F Encaustics

For her permanent gallery: here