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MARISSA BOHK
WWW.MARISSABOHK.COM

EDUCATION
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Minor Art History 2023
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
Cum Laude; Deans List EXHIBITIONS
2024
Main Line Art Center - Little Luxuries: An Exhibition of Small Works
September 9- October 20, 2024 2023
FIT Fine Art Thesis - All At Once
May 2023- June 2023 2021 - 2023
SUNY Global Office - Global Abstraction
November 2021- May 2023 2021
E&M Art Gallery
June 2021- August 2021 2019 - 2018
Harborfields Public Library - Annual Fine Art Show
June 2018; June 2019 COMMISSIONS
2020
“Good Things Going” Film by Reece Daniels
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2024 Muralist: Authentic HeArtwork 2023 Studio Assistant: Summer Wheat Studios 2020 Assistant Teaching Artist: YMCA

WORK STATEMENT

I concentrate in oil painting, collage, drawing, sculpture.

I am currently working on an ongoing project series of mixed media 2D collage, drawings, and experimental /sculptural work to repurpose my waste and critique consumption at small and large. Traversing the human social environment I explore the relationships of Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Industry. Through visual juxtaposition, allusion, mark-making, shape, color, and imploring recycling, reduction, repetition I remonstrate Western society, Capitalism, religion, and the War machine through lenses of conflict, hierarchy, community, culture, dogma, propaganda. This is exemplified in my dominant visual motif of vibrant color contrasting monochrome, or in angularity against curve, or a myriad of other overt visual conflicts representing our blindness, our real lived paradox.

Concomitantly, I aspire to glorify the divine gestalt within Nature, Man, and Earth, throught patterns and shapes like the spiral, circle, triangle, stripe, star, etc. In a digital-dada materialist fashion, I implore the ideas of imagery as communication and medium as accessability, suggesting collective action in responce. And finally I thematically and visually allude to Modernism and its anti-War and anti-Imperialist 20th century Artistic resistance. My most recent and ongoing series utilizes "domestic", "feminine", "juvenile" or "craft" art materials--paper, scissors, glue, crayon, marker, pencil, pen, thread, bead, sticker--and coalesced with 2D paper/ plastic miasma of American life underscores the need for putting restricitons on unrelenting Industry and for an uncompromisisng prioritization of Sustainability. Art as the everyday in the 21st century is about reclaiming what already exists and making do with what we already have.

ARTISTIC PHILOSOPHY

One year ago I deleted my social media presence completely in a radical act of self reclamation. I was moved and deeply fascinated with my own consumption and capitulation to the algorithm, and its subsequent affect on my mind and creativity.

I believe there is both a greater need for Art and Artists as connection, belonging, therapy, community; Art as culture and spirituality. The world we were born into is unlikely to see world peace, environmental sustainability, social equity, eradication of poverty and global hunger, dignity and meaningfulness for all if it does not drastically change course. And what does that mean? What does this mean for us and our Art in this dystopia? What does Art stand for, and for who? If Art is a public good it needs to be prioritized. This is America. And what is our story? What is our role as artists in this? What do we do? Can a person assimilated into Capitalism's de-Culturification--an Artist in the 21st century-- subvert a culture dominated by the Algorithm? Or the War Machine that will come for US ALL? Soon we will all become "the Other." So why bother? Why care? What is the point to privilege? What is the point of resistance? Maybe clarity? Maybe transcendence? How do we create potent visuals in our optically-oversaturated lives? Powerful enough to resist the total obsferification of Culture, of Nature and the Real? How can we reconstruct abstract social norms to more cogently reflect the real lived experiences of destruction/creation in the current human life world? How has the Fine Art world contributed, and what could its continuing influence and role look like in 𝘰𝘶𝘳 future? Art is a common good and must serve the people.