Marcy Starz is an emerging artist from Marietta, Georgia. She studied visual arts at Kennesaw State University, a campus in the northwestern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in December, 2009. Marcy maintains a busy career as a gallery artist in the Atlanta art scene. Most promising is the fact that, while still an undergraduate student, she has already secured an introductory exhibition of her work at Mason Murer Gallery, one of the most prestigious contemporary art galleries in Atlanta. Her debut is scheduled for May, 2010.
Her latest body of work deals with the fundamental needs of survival: food, sex and shelter while examining ancient, pre-historical correlations to our contemporary lifestyles. While our technology is far more advanced than our forebearers could have imagined, our basic needs have remained the same. She uses the flat, patterned backgrounds of old bed sheets, symbolizing home and shelter, to push the painted figures into the foreground. Some pieces contradict modern notions of gender by combining male and female components within the same figure.
Her latest body of work deals with the fundamental needs of survival: food, sex and shelter while examining ancient, pre-historical correlations to our contemporary lifestyles. While our technology is far more advanced than our forebearers could have imagined, our basic needs have remained the same. She uses the flat, patterned backgrounds of old bed sheets, symbolizing home and shelter, to push the painted figures into the foreground. Some pieces contradict modern notions of gender by combining male and female components within the same figure.
