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Described as \u2018startlingly fresh\u2019 in her New York Times obituary last March, Marcia Marcus<\/a>\u2019 work from the 60s to the 90s – now at Olney Gleason Gallery<\/a> – is immediately attractive for its flat, realist style and intense, confident engagement with the viewer.\u00a0 In a piece from the \u201860s, Marcus stands at a distance from her young daughters and husband as if belonging only loosely to their world; later, in 1980, we see her blond head posed behind a large sculpture of a Greek deity, as if for protection.\u00a0 In the painting pictured here, created as part of a print commission for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Marcus looks like a19th<\/sup> century literary heroine with her romantic pose before a flowery field, and is again nestled intimately with an ancient sculpture.\u00a0 Wearing a dress emblazoned with an ancient head, and standing before a Greek ruin, Marcus blends past and present to question contemporary attraction to and involvement in history. (On view through Feb 14th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Marcia Marcus, Painting for Olympic Poster aka Olympic Painting (Self-portrait), oil on canvas, 1974.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Described as \u2018startlingly fresh\u2019 in her New York Times obituary last March, Marcia Marcus\u2019 work from the 60s to the 90s – now at Olney Gleason Gallery – is immediately attractive for its flat, realist style and intense, confident engagement with the viewer.\u00a0 In a piece from the \u201860s, Marcus stands at a distance from … <\/p>\n

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