Willie Marlowe
Willie Marlowe, painter and visual poet, has shown paintings in solo and invitational exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is included in museum, university, corporate and private collections, and has been supported by a grant from Artist’s Space, NYC, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, and by eleven Strategic Opportunity Stipend awards from the New York Foundation on the Arts. She has been a visiting artist in Barbados, West Indies, in Cortona, Italy, and in Wexford, Ireland, where she had a ten-year retrospective exhibition at the Wexford Arts Center.
She has had artist’s residencies at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, the Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland, Emily Harvey Foundation for the Arts, Venice, Italy, Milkwood International Residencies, Cesky Krumlov, South Bohemia, Czech Republic, Atelier Cres, Cres Town, Croatia, and Obras Holland, Renkum, The Netherlands. She was a member of the Albany-Tula Alliance delegation to Russia; Tula is Albany’s sister city in Russia. She was invited by the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University as a visiting artist and gave a presentation on her paintings done during residencies in Ireland and Italy.
Her work is informed by travel, going to museums and archaeological sites in Europe, the Yucatan, and Russia. She often works on intimately scaled acrylic paintings on paper. Her luminous surfaces are achieved by using an intense palette and successive layers of translucent glazes.
She taught painting and drawing in the Department of Visual Arts, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY, and taught watercolor in two of their international studies programs, “Sage at Oxford,” Somerville College, Oxford University, and “Celtic Connections” in Scotland and Ireland. She served as chair of the department for a two-year term and had two sabbatical leaves to paint. She is now Professor Emerita, Russell Sage College, and working in her own studio in Albany.
