“I have drawn from the figure for many years. Much of my work is done in open drawing sessions where the model takes a variety of poses that last less than a minute to a half-hour. What particularly engages me is the opportunity to be fully present in the moment. It is possible, if the optimum conditions exist, to suggest the figure with a kind of gestural precision in a brief period of time.”
+Marsha Maverick Wells Shankman
About Marsha
Marsha Maverick Wells Shankman was born in Austin, Texas. She spent the first five years of her life overseas, in Haiti and then in France. She has lived on both the East and West Coasts, and currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.
Marsha received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (1976). She has exhibited her work at the Schrager Clarke Gallery, DIVA (2004, 2007), the Froelick Gallery in Portland, Alder Gallery, “Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century” (Astoria, OR), Central Oregon Community College, the Trenton City Museum (Trenton, NJ), Princeton (NJ) Art Association, the Galveston (TX) Arts Center on the Strand, and multiple times at the Maude Kerns Art Center, most recently in a 3-women show, “The Nakedness of the Subject” (February 21 – March 21, 2014). Featured in the QuARTerly magazine (Winter, 2006). Reviewed in the Eugene Weekly, the Register-Guard, the Houston Chronicle, and on KLCC’s “Viz City.” Works in the collection of Symantec (Purchase Award, La Petite VI, 1998), and in many private collections.
Wells has worked at the Maude Kerns Art Center as Publicity and Publications Coordinator since 1995. She works in a variety of media, including acrylic and watercolor.
