Marja Lianko

sculpture and painting

email : mlianko@verizon.net
web : www.marjaliankoart.com/

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statement

Marja Lianko, a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, served at the School as a faculty member for twenty three years where she taught courses in printmaking and mixed media. Her work has been exhibited in numerous regional galleries and museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum, the De Cordova Museum, the Art Complex Museum and the Rose Museum. In 2004 she received a fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. In 1994 Lianko was a recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts NEA Regional Fellowship. Her work is represented in many public and private collections including those at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Musem, the De Cordova Museum, IBM, Fidelity Investments and John Hancock Insurance Company.

In my latest work I have again used paper as the primary medium in both the paintings and sculpture. I “draw” with strips of paper, which I have either mono printed or silk screened and then paste them on a board or a plaster/sculptamold sculpture. Next steps involve painting and sanding and painting again.

Several of my recent images are abstract or have abstract elements in them. I think of these works as being in a state of flux since they are continuously leading to new approaches and discoveries.