Artist Portfolio: Marsha Balian
When Marsha Balian was a little girl, her parents, who were sewers and clothing makers, tried to interest her in the family craft. She hated sewing and their attempts went in vain. She did, however, pick up a love of fabric, and in the collection of stamps, photos, old books, and assorted paper ephemera in her studio is cloth she has collected over the years. In the series “Fabrications and Other Notions,” she puts those pieces of fabric to work in her collage.
A portfolio of Marsha Balian’s work appears in KOLAJ #14.
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“The risks of failure are perhaps no different than any other pursuit, even with the benefit of instruction. But stubbornness trumps failure and I try until something works, at least to my own satisfaction.”
A portfolio of Marsha Balian’s work appears in KOLAJ #14.
To see the complete Artist Portfolio, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.
Balian lives and works in the California’s San Francisco Bay Area where she has spent most of her adult life and works as a nurse practitioner when not making art. More of her work can be seen at www.marshabalian.com.
Image (top):
Back When We Were Peasants
by Marsha Balian
10″x10″
acrylic paint, assorted papers, images from antique German paper dolls, upholstery sample, fabric swatch, pencil, coloured pencil, oil paint and shoe polish on wood panel
2014
Image (centre):
Fabrications 2
by Marsha Balian
12″x12″
acrylic paint, assorted papers, embroidered Indian fabric, pencil, coloured pencil, oil paint and shoe polish on wood panel
2014