SoBeCa, Issue #35:
Featured Artist's Credits

Featured Artists:

Marie Genevieve was born in Indiana. After graduating with honors from the Art Department of Western Illinois University, she moved to Orange County, CA to continue her career because of the with great weather, beautiful beaches, and the community’s love for art.

Over the years Marie has studied and explored many different art mediums, with her most recent inspiration being the art of stenciling. It allows her to find a balance between the control of the stencil design and the uncertainty and abstract nature of art itself. Through the meticulous process of designing, drawing, and cutting each stencil, which can take up to a week to cut just one stencil, she is able to evolve different looks or styles by using the same stencil in different paintings.

Marie Genevieve is intrigued by how our culture seems to evolve around the media. The media has shaped our minds through fashion, trends, ideals, opinions and thoughts, which we are bombarded with on a daily basis. Marie has observed how an individual looking at an everyday object, famous place, or a movie star seems to already have an opinion of that subject. And she is fascinated with how life experiences and culture affect one’s opinion of a subject.

Because of this preconceived disposition by society, many artists veer away from painting portraits of recognizable culture icons. Marie Genevieve, however, views it as a challenge and opportunity to showcase her sense of design, unique painting style, and artistic perspective.

Every person has someone or something they relate to. Marie Genevieve finds inspiration in painting one of her favorite subjects, Marilyn Monroe. Norma Jeane Baker was a girl with a hard beginning but big hopes and dreams. Any person with hopes and dreams can relate to her. Marilyn Monroe is the iconic sex symbol. It might be Marilyn’s smile that made her sexy or the fact that she appeared confident, even though she always wasn’t. No matter what others opinions of her were; Marilyn always strived to grow as an actress and become the best she could be.

Marie Genevieve loves the idea of an independent, glamorous woman that took every advantage to live life to the fullest. Maybe Marilyn said it best “I don’t want make money, I just want to be wonderful.” Marie Genevieve will have her work on display at The ARTery Gallery from July 26th – August 10th. The ARTery Gallery consists of 3 Steel Shipping Containers, which are located behind Urban Outfitters at The LAB. Email info@thelab.com for more info.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To submit your artwork to run as featured artist for a future issue of the SoBeCa Newsletter the specs for the featured art work are:

Featured artist banner graphic: 572 x 170
Featured artist page graphic: 600 x As tall as you want.

Submit as a bitmap, tiff, psd, jpeg, or gif to: info@thelab.com