The University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB) recently granted tenure to Elizabeth Marran K'77. Marran who is now an associate professor of art, teaches drawing and printmaking. In her message accompanying the announcement, she wrote, "Thank you, Bill Salzillo and Bruce Muirhead!" (Art professors.)
Marran graduated from Kirkland College and went on to earn her MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She then moved to Boston in 1979 to pursue a career in art. In 1987, she came to UMB where she continues to teach introductory and advanced courses in drawing and prints. She has taught at a number of different schools that include the Museum of Fine Arts' Education Department, Mass. College of Art, and Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. She has been a visiting critic in painting at Mass College of Art and in drawing at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Her work investigates the relationship between traditional media such as drawing, painting and prints with technology. She conceptualizes her abstract images within a psychological framework where she references the relationship between order and chaos, discipline and lack of restraint, intention and accident. Recurring themes draw from the autobiographical, often poking fun of every day life through quirky and conceptual means. "I am deeply committed to process, content and form," states Marran.
Her work has been exhibited in national and international venues that include the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard Univeristy, the California Art Museum, The Rose Museum at Brandeis Univeristy, Real Art Ways in Hartford, Conn. and Galerie 5020 in Salzburg Austria. Her work has received favorable notice, with 15 published reviews including a feature article of Art New England where an image from her solo exhibition at the OHT Gallery, Boston series was used for the cover, August /September 2002.
Marran graduated from Kirkland College and went on to earn her MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She then moved to Boston in 1979 to pursue a career in art. In 1987, she came to UMB where she continues to teach introductory and advanced courses in drawing and prints. She has taught at a number of different schools that include the Museum of Fine Arts' Education Department, Mass. College of Art, and Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. She has been a visiting critic in painting at Mass College of Art and in drawing at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Her work investigates the relationship between traditional media such as drawing, painting and prints with technology. She conceptualizes her abstract images within a psychological framework where she references the relationship between order and chaos, discipline and lack of restraint, intention and accident. Recurring themes draw from the autobiographical, often poking fun of every day life through quirky and conceptual means. "I am deeply committed to process, content and form," states Marran.
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| Checkered Bunny, digital print, 8.5"x11", 2003 |
