Gallery 10 is pleased to present
“Seeing Color in Clements, Ca.” featuring Marilyn R. Eger. The show will occur
October
31st through November 25,
2018 at Gallery 10, 15 A Eureka Street, Sutter Creek, California. There will be
an opening reception for the artist on
Saturday,
November 3rd from 2 to 5 P.M. The event
is free to the public and is sponsored by Gallery 10. For more information,
call (209) 267-0203 or visit gallery10.org.
While Eger’s media of choice is oil, as well as pastel
and acrylics, she feels like a sculptor when painting because she can chisel
out the images as though they were stone. Marilyn is also drawn to reflected light and
she has a deep passion for vibrant color. Her intent is not to be a camera but
to convey her feelings and sensations at that moment in time. Color notes laid down, one against another,
without hesitation is a perfect moment in time. Marilyn’s paintings are
impressionistic in style as she tries to catch the fleeting light of the golden
hour.
Antique relics recur in Eger’s work in the form of old,
rusty cars and tractors. Those items bring back moments on her Grandma’s farm
when life was sweet and simple. Since Eger retired from teaching art a year and
a half ago, she is now painting, or in the fields with her husband. Sometimes
she is on the tractor and other days she is driving the Kawasaki Mule to trees
that need tending as well as landscaping the garden with her husband Jerry
leading the way. Marilyn’s paintings are a part of her everyday life. They are
an extension of her identity. The small farmer is vanishing and these paintings
document this vanishing past.
Eger believes art and the creative process is a force of
consistency in her life. Her work allows her to endure life’s
difficulties. Marilyn Eger is a survivor, of not only cancer, but of life.
These small interpretations of rural life, take you back to a childhood memory,
as well as the blood, sweat and tears the land demands of its inhabitants.
“I am primarily a plein air painter.
When this is not possible, my own photos are used as a point of departure. I am
inspired by the area I live in and things around me, such as the Clements
landscape, old tractors and cars, curious cattle, the sunsets/sunrises and the
flowers from the garden. I am also drawn to reflected color in all kinds of
items especially, bottles. I have a deep passion for vibrant color.” explains
Marilyn Eger. All she ever wanted to do was create art. Her media of
choice is oil, pastel and acrylics in that order. She feels like a sculptor
when painting because she can chisel out the images as though they were stone.
As a young girl Marilyn’s parents encouraged her, by
enrolling her in art courses and creating a studio in the back of their antique
shop where she would spend hours painting. Antique relics recur in her
work in the form of old, rusty cars and tractors, as well as antique lanterns
and jars.
Throughout her life
she values a strong art education and will never stop learning. Eger
earned a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Stanislaus in
Art. She also received teaching credentials from Chapman College and her
M.F.A. at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Ca. in 2013.
She believes art and the creative process is a force of consistency in her
life.
Her work allows her to endure life’s difficulties. Eger is a
survivor, of not only cancer, but of life. Marilyn Eger lives in Clements,
California with her husband Jerry, their chocolate lab, “Hot Chocolate” and
their Great Pyrenees, Sandy.
