Marilyn Turtz
Solid Light
November 19, 2021 – February 12, 2022
Marilyn Turtz is included in the exhibition, The Medium as Muse currently on view at the Nassau County Museum of Art through May 17, 2020. The exhibition also includes works by Michael Albert, Richard Estes, Maryellen Hackett, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Abby Weir, and Lisa Zilker.
Marilyn Turtz is included in the exhibition Select 3 at Garvey Simon Gallery in New York. The exhibiton features an array of mediums and conceptual frameworks; all unfited by the interest in the intersection between design and the natural world.
Marilyn Turtz is a former student of Lois Dodd. Her intimate paintings, evoked from observation of the Maine landscape, translate to serence glimpses of light and color. "Ms. Turtz has perfected the art of distilling a scene's essence without getting bogged down in fussy detail. She has an especially sensitive way with atmosphere, catching with equal skill mist over morning fields, afternoon's golden glow, and the lengthening shadows of evening." - Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times
Marilyn Turtz’s paintings capture the quiet serenity in a moment of pause. Her works depict time passing through a shifting landscapes. Light and shadows reveal a scene or object’s perceptual qualities, heightening the everyday to the sublime.
Marilyn Turtz received her MFA from Brooklyn College in 1985, where she studied with such notable artists as Lois Dodd, Phillip Pearlstein and Lennart Anderson. Her BFA, from Pratt Institute was awarded in 1978. Her paintings have been shown in New York City, Long Island, Maine and California. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Heckscher Museum in Huntington and the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook. Turtz has been an Artist in Residence at The Heliker-LaHotan Foundation on Great Cranberry Island, Maine, Weir Farm Trust in Wilton, Ct. and Cummington Community for the Arts in Cummington, Ma. She has received public and corporate commissions from such organizations as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the City of Glen Cove and the New York City Arts for Transit, Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Turtz lives and works in Glen Cove, New York where she teaches painting.
“Ms. Turtz has perfected the art of distilling a scene’s essence without getting bogged down in fussy detail. She has an especially sensitive way with atmosphere, catching with equal skill mist over morning fields, afternoon’s golden glow, and the lengthening shadows of evening.”
– Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times
