Exposures by Maryanne Buschini
Join us for the 1st Friday opening in the MAC Arts Center with Maryanne Buschini, from 5-7pm with an artist talk beginning at 5:45. The show will be in the Center through the last Sunday of the month.
STATEMENT:
Maryanne Buschini is a visual artist, and painter. In her figurative paintings, she explores the vulnerability that is part of the human condition. Using found photos as starting reference, her paintings’ subject matter and narrative concerns human emotional responses – those underlying feelings that expose themselves – whether we want them to or not.
Her body of work investigates relationships, origins, ancestors, history and community. A large part of her practice is exploring stories and ideas about the relationships in families, hierarchies, culture and place. Viewers often connect with familiar relationships and emotions in these paintings.
BIO:
Maryanne Buschini is originally from Valhalla, NY. She has been drawing and painting since she was very young. Over the years she has explored diverse artistic routes – in addition to painting and teaching – designed and created sets for community theater, worked as a graphic designer for different profit and nonprofits, and painted portraits for military organizations. She lives with her husband, John Odell, in Malvern PA, where she maintains her painting studio. Together they raised 2 sons, and this year became grandparents.
An experienced artist and art educator, she has worked as a studio painter and taught art at the high school and college level in the Philadelphia area. Her art degrees include: BFA from Kansas State University; Master of Arts in Teaching Visual Arts from University of the Arts; coursework, workshops and graduate work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; graduate Critical Theory courses at the Barnes Foundation.
Recently, she had a solo show of her body of work on the Kensico Reservoir and workers; awarded an art residency at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining NY; painting juried into the Art of the State at the Museum of the State of Pennsylvania, and the Woodmere Museum 80th Annual Juried Show. Over the years, her artwork received multiple awards at juried shows throughout the Philadelphia area. Her work is featured at open studios and select art fairs, and included in collections in the US and Europe.
EDUCATION
MAT-VA University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
BFA Kansas State University, Manhattan KS
Graduate Seminar Critical Theory – The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia PA
Continuing art workshops, seminars, studies
ART TEACHING
EASTERN UNIVERSITY, St. Davids, PA
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, visiting professor, Lincoln University PA
ART INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH online division
BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Newtown PA
Various community arts organizations: workshops, demonstrations
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA – K-12 – ART TEACHER CERTIFICATION
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions:
2022: EXPOSURE – Media Arts Council Gallery, Media PA
2019: COLLECTION: Labor, Stone, Water – Fireside Gallery,
Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon PA
Selected Group Exhibitions/Awards:
2022: WOODMERE ANNUAL 80th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia PA
2022: ART THAT BEARS WITNESS. Bethany Arts Community, Ossining NY
2022: TEXTURE, First Place Award, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia PA
2021: ART OF THE STATE 2021, The Museum of the State of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
2021: BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY – Artists Residency, Ossining, NY
2019: PHILADELPHA STORIES -15 YEARS – Cheltenham Center for the Arts, PA
2019: SPRING SHOW – PHILADELPHIA TRISTATE ARTISTS EQUITY, First Place Award,
Irvin and Lois E. Cohen Gallery, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading PA
website: maryannebuschini.com Instagram: instagram.com/buschini_art