Eugene Weekly Coverage on “Seen”
Marsha is featured in the Eugene Weekly’s coverage on “Seen” at Maude Kerns Art Center, a new show celebrating the figure and traditional values of inclusion. An excerpt from the article is listed below; read the full story here!
“Shankman has a take on being seen that empathizes with the model. Typically, a model is referred to anonymously as “a nude” or “the figure.” But Shankman has always felt connected to the person she’s trying to represent, aware of the story they tell with their posture. And because there is no instructor in open studios, the models assume their own poses. In other words, they tell their own stories.”
Eugene Weekly Coverage on 75th Anniversary Exhibit
Marsha is featured in the Eugene Weekly’s coverage on the Maude Kerns 75th Anniversary Exhibit. You can read the full story here!
“Shankman is on a committee that aims to preserve the legacy of artist Maude Kerns (1876-1965). She says Kerns displayed her art at the Museum of Non-objective Painting, now the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. I can easily imagine it, too, since Kerns’ abstract and spiritually motivated paintings have a lot in common with the artworks of Wassily Kandinsky, whose philosophical treatise “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” was written in 1912 and published for the Museum of Non-objective Painting in 1946.”