Artist Information:
Marie Kazalia
Farmdale, OH
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement--Marie
Kazalia
From girlhood on I consciously
collected experiences,
avoiding what I considered the
materialism of collecting
objects/things (noticing that
many artists collect physical
things that somehow relate to
their art making), my
collecting occurred over a
longer period of time in the
American cities of Toledo,
Ohio and San Francisco,
California until starkly
different experiences
intersected while living in
Asian cities where I openly
allowed my Americanness to
merge with Eastern ways and
understandings.
The images presented here
represent the emergence of
color and language influences
from my 4 expatriate years in
the Asian countries of Japan,
India and China---primarily in
the cities of Tokyo,
Madras(now Chennai) and Hong
Kong.
As an American, born in
Toledo, Ohio, with a Bachelor
of Fines Arts degree from the
California College of Arts in
the San Francisco bay area, I
studied Japanese at a private
language school in Tokyo where
I practiced speaking, reading
and writing Japanese kanji,
hiragana and katakana
characters. Hiragana and
katakana the more modern
simplified characters most
often used on the many large
neon signs in the urban
centers of Tokyo.
I also traveled, lived and
taught in India for one full
year, ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Collections &
Publications: art in fine arts
journal in Ireland, titled
Artists Pages. First & 2nd
volume of my book of poems
titled, Erratic Sleep in A
Cold Hotel. Widely published
in small press literary
anthologies and literary
journals, voice and film in UK
based Showcase Programme
Exchange archive. Frida Kahlo
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From girlhood on I consciously collected experiences, avoiding what I considered the materialism of collecting objects/things (noticing that many artists collect physical things that somehow relate to their art making), my collecting occurred over a longer period of time in the American cities of Toledo, Ohio and San Francisco, California until starkly different experiences intersected while living in Asian cities where I openly allowed my Americanness to merge with Eastern ways and understandings.
The images presented here represent the emergence of color and language influences from my 4 expatriate years in the Asian countries of ... |
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