Bio

Marley Blauch (b. 2001) is a painter and current MFA candidate at New York University. 

Marley works predominantly in oil paint on wood panel, and, through this medium, she explores the beauty within everyday life, observing the seldom admired intricacies of her subjects. As she paints, Marley experiences presence, mindfulness, and the art of noticing, as she has always been captivated by the subtle, fleeting details of the world, and painting brings her closer to them. Marley considers creating to be a meditation and a spiritual practice, as her intentional engagement in the process of oil painting teaches her to bask in these ephemeral moments in a way that radiates beyond her studio practice into everyday life. 

Marley is captivated by light and the polarity that it demonstrates as it simultaneously appears so physical yet so enchantingly luminous, invigorating all that it touches through seemingly magical properties of interaction. Due to the transient and dynamic nature of light, the subjects of her work are perpetually in flux, inspiring an inevitable indulgence in the present moment as the illusory visual effects she observes exist solely from her perspective. Marley is fascinated by the tension between this ephemerality and the tedious experience of rendering these subjects in oil paint. 

Marley earned her B.A. in both Studio Art with Honors and Psychology along with a minor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of California San Diego. She has experience within many realms of the art world, as she spent a semester abroad studying at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, and has also worked as an Art Exhibit Coordinator at UC San Diego and as a gallery assistant at Legends Gallery in La Jolla, California. Marley is from New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) from which she was granted a Certificate of Artistry, and spent a summer studying figure drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.