FIre: Element of Life
By Marlene Tseng Yu

November 14, 2014 - january 17, 2015
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With traditional Chinese and Western art training, tougher with her own experiments, Marlene You has sought to create techniques that embody the scope of her expression. Reference to nature are the focus of all her paintings. The scale of her paintings is a challenge, but not a limitation for her. Marlene states, “ To produce on my canvas or paper what I have in my mind, my ideas, and feelings on the universe, is a great challenge.” “Fire: Element of Life” is part of The Lucky Sevens, a series of solo exhibitions in Shreveport/Bossier featuring artist Marlene Tseng You. There will be 7 shows at 7 local institutions, beginning with her 70th solo exhibition in her 77th year.

EXHIBITING ARTIST:
Marlene tseng yu

artist bio

Marlene Tseng Yu was born in Taiwan in 1937 and came to the U.S. in 1963.  From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City.  She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967.  She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968.  Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, “Forces of Nature."  Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation (2001 to present). In 2014, Marlene established her own museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Marlene Yu Museum.