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Marilyn
Lanfear: The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting opens at the Beeville Art Museum on January 21 and
will remain on view through April 14, 2012. Drawing on her Texas roots and family stories, Lanfear
creates powerful and vivid mixed media sculptures and assemblages reflecting
her past. “I consider myself a
visual storyteller with the history of my Texas family as the core,” stated the
artist.
Lanfear
incorporates wood, stone, paper, metal and buttons, cast iron beds, handguns,
and measuring tools into her work, along with words embroidered on towels,
burned into chairs, and stenciled on window shades, saying she uses whatever is
needed to tell her story. “Lanfear
transforms traditional feminine craft through techniques most often associated
with men’s trades, such as welding lead dresses and carving curtains in wood, “
explained Dan Goddard, the past fine arts editor at the San Antonio Express News, and now a freelance arts editor in San
Antonio.
Although
best known for her “leadwear”--life-sized, lifelike women’s garments-- Lanfear
has most recently developed a series of fresco-like works, using
mother-of-pearl buttons sewn onto linen.
A large-scale narrative trilogy, entitled “Uncle Clarence’s Three
Wives,” is one of the highlights of the show in Beeville, along with another of
the new button pieces, “Every Night She Latched all the Windows and Locked all
the Doors and Put the Babies in Her Bed.”
Marilyn
Lanfear was born in Waco, grew up in Corpus Christi, and currently lives in San
Antonio. Named “2010 Artist of the
Year” by the San Antonio Art League, Lanfear’s work is included in numerous
museum collections, including the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Museum of
South Texas in Corpus Christi, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the University of
Colorado Museum in Boulder, Colorado.
http://www.marilynlanfear.com/
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