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Tania Marmolejo Andersson. "Elsewhere"

Arte por Excel… 23-03-2023

Tania Marmolejo @ Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary

We are pleased to announce our participation to 'Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary' with a solo presentation of Tania Marmolejo Andersson, revealing 7 new large scale works on canvas.

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary is located inside the PALM BEACH COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER, 650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Titled "Elsewhere", this presentation will showcase a new series with an intense focus on the maritime and subtropical landscape, strongly representative of the south Floridian environments. Marmolejo's characters, usually able to loudly communicate their strong feelings and behavioral patterns, now became more subtle and enigmatic, suggesting a debate over the connection between their state of mind and nature. This exhibition will introduce to the public seven large format artworks on canvas, appositely created for this event. This new body of work, exemplarily executed with the artist's signature technique, show the exceptional capability of depicting empathy imbued with personal implications and social issues, pushing even further beyond the boundaries the references to the Expressionism and the Flemish Renaissance that have influenced Tania's work. Her protagonists appear altered by the surrounding, in a sort of epiphany moment after a deep meditation on the wilderness of nature.
The emotions that Marmolejo expresses through her characters are also works of self-questioning about civil, gender, political and environmental controversies.

Tania Marmolejo Andersson was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1975). Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, she studies Graphic Design and Illustration in Norway and returns to the Dominican Republic to study Fine Arts at the Altos de Chavón School of Design. In 1998 she receives the Bluhdorn Scholarship, and continues her studies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, graduating from Fine Arts and Illustration in 2000. She begins her artistic career as an illustrator for the fashion and lifestyle sections of Obsidiana magazine (New York). Since then, her work has been exhibited in numerous collective and solo national and international exhibitions, several Iberoamerican Art Salons in Washington DC, representing Dominican Republic; as well as in international art fairs.

Marmolejo was selected to represent the Dominican Republic with her textile designs at the Fourth and Sixth Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID), in Madrid, Spain, in 2014 and 2018. Her artwork has been displayed as part of important national cultural campaigns in the Dominican Republic and she has been recognized as a remarkable Dominican contemporary artist by important Dominican magazines and institutions.

Marmolejo is also the author of 2 books and the illustrator of a children book series. She currently resides in New York, where she is devoted full time to her artistic practice.

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