Marlene Struss




















BIO

Marlene
Struss grew up in Northern California.  Her bachelor of fine arts degree
is from the University of Santa Barbara in 1973. There she worked with such
esteemed instructors as Irma Cavat, Howard Warshaw, and Larry Rivers. Over time Struss has created bodies of work from representational
to abstract with media including printmaking, pastel, collage, digital, and today
acrylic paintings on panel. Her highly individualistic style of painting can best
be described as biomorphic abstract expressionism with an Asian influence.

Struss has exhibited
broadly online and throughout the United States and as far as St. Petersburg,
Russia, and Seoul, Korea.  She has been
involved in the arts community in Santa Barbara, California, and in Los
Angeles. Among the awards she has received are the Individual Artist Award in
Assemblage from the Arts Fund of Santa Barbara in 2004 and the Best in Show
Award at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in its Tri-County Juried
Exhibition in 2019. In 2020 she was honored by her Notre Dame High School
Alumnae Association as a "Woman to Watch." In 2025 she had her first
two-person museum exhibit for the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa
Barbara.

Presently
she is represented by 10 West Gallery and is a member of Western Edge, Studio
Artists and Abstract Art Collective in Santa Barbara. She is also represented in
the film and movie industry by Marina Kieser in North Hollywood. Struss's work can be seen in many film, television
productions.

 

 


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