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Marilyn Greenberg is a painter, poet and fiction
writer who continues to shift between forms, cannily using her understanding
of each to inform the others. She engages our full range of emotions
by taking humor seriously and even in her darkest work, unearthing the
absurd. Her paintings, although abstract, have a narrative thrust and
create a language of visual metaphor. Their provocative surfaces are
disciplined by a reassuring structure. In her fiction Greenberg demonstrates
her painter's eye for detail, using unexpected imagery to create a keen
sense of place and a unique appreciation for human vulnerability. Her
poems make their observations with elegance and precision, their images
staying with the reader long after the poem is read. What all of Greenberg's
work has in common is a delicate power and melancholy wit.
Greenberg has had five one-person shows in New
York and her work is exhibited internationally. Her large abstract paintings
are in many private collections and have been purchased and shown in
major corporate collections such as: JP Morgan Chase, Prudential Life
Insurance Company, Sony Corporation, Security Pacific National Bank
etc., as well as embassies in Japan, Sweden and India.
Two of her poems, SLEEPLESS II and THE
GET won Third Place and Honorable Mention in the 2001 Annual California
Quarterly Poetry Contest. PARTING, a poem in two parts was a
finalist in the 2005 Sow's Ear poetry competition. Her poems have appeared
or are forthcoming in the following journals: Red Wheelbarrow, CQ,
The Distillery, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Inkwell Magazine, Jewish
Women's Literary Annual, Mudfish Magazine, Nimrod, Oregon East, Berkley
Poetry Review, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review,
Writers' Forum and Swink. To read a selection of her poems, please click
here.
Her story LESSONS was nominated for BEST
NEW AMERICAN VOICES in 2005. DESSERT, a finalist in Glimmer Train's
short story contest 2003, was published in the last issue of Kalliope
and two poems, A LIKENESS and MOTOR RUNNING appeared in
the last issue of Raritan Quarterly Review.
Alice Martell, of the Martell Agency, represents
FRAGILE LAUGHTER, Greenberg's first book of short fiction.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
studio: 40 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-242-0705
marilyn.greenberg@gmail.com
availability and prices on request
all images © marilyn greenberg 2006
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