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MARIE KEMP

VIDEO INTERVIEW
 Artist's Statement:


​Hello! Welcome to Landmarks and Watersheds. I am a born

and raised WNY’er. I live and love and work and cry and laugh and play in this place. The lake, the river, the little streams, trees, parks, buildings, abandoned fields and roadside weeds are the very cells of my body. WNY nature- tame or wild, fenced off and forgotten, this nature heals me. There is a humming, vibrating potentiality in the pieces of our past and the new spaces we are making. It is all connected. WE are ALL connected. I hope in my work to showcase this beautiful, fragile ecosystem I call home. I hope there is something for everyone here to recognize, re-discover or remember.

I began studying art at SUNY New Paltz in 1981. I transferred to SUC Buffalo State in 1983 and attended on and off to 1989, but never graduated. I worked for 30 years in health care for the WNY Developmental Disability Service Office. I came back to school in Fall 2018 to finish my BFA in Sculpture. This show is the result of experimenting in diverse materials/ methods. I try to combine things, things I make, things I find, natural/ manmade, even “garbage”. I want each element to speak in its own voice and then let the combination become something greater than the sum of their previous stories. Art to me is about connection and communication. There is a story to be told.The events of today have isolated us from ourselves, from each other and from nature. Let this be a space and a time to start to put the pieces back together.
Sincerely, Marie F. Kemp




" Proceeds from the sale of this work will be donated to Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper and The WNY Land Conservancy;The Riverline Project."




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  • HOME
  • CALENDAR
  • ARTISTS
    • Véronique Côté
    • Rebecca Schwarzberg
    • Marie Kemp
    • John Toohill & Lindsay Tripp
    • Westley Olmsted
    • Justin Higner
    • Samuel Allison: Bello//Disegno//invenzione
    • Samuel Allison: Portraiture
    • Nate Hodge
    • Taiitan: Surrealism and the Hood
    • Taiitan: Portraiture
    • Katrina Kauffman
    • Greg Kuppinger
    • Robert Graham
    • Sarah Turner
    • Julia Skop
    • Bill Woody
    • Adrian Johnston
    • John Witt
    • Judd Plattenburg
    • Alicia Wittman
    • Jim Crowley
    • Diana Godfrey
    • Mike Broomfield
    • Julia Skop
    • Joe Beasley
    • Timothy Clancy
    • Sean Madden
    • Noel Keith
    • Barbara Kellogg
    • Michelle Darin
    • Barb Vural
    • Students of Locust Street Art School
    • Alex Stevenson
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    • IMAGES - DUENDE
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