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1/20 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
11/19 Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Wit and Whimsy: Selections from the Collection of Michael and Nancy Gifford
10/19 Yuliya Lennon Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Wabi-Sabi (Group show)
10/19 State Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Fascinations (Juried show)
10/19 10 West Gallery
10/19 Abstract Art Collective, Santa Barbara, CA Live Jury Day (Juror)
9/10 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Earthly Delights (Group show)
6/19 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Humanistic (Group show)
6/19 Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, Santa Barbara, CA 5th Annual ArtSEE
Fundraiser and Exhibit (Second Place award)
3/19 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Essentia (Group show)
12/18 Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA 100 Grand (Invitational group)
12/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Happy Holidays (Group show)
11/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Noisy Silence (Group show)
10/18 Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA Nature Abstracted (Juried show)
9/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Behold, a Brush (Group show)
7/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Who...What? (Group show)
6/18 Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, Santa Barbara, CA Summer (Juried show)
5/18 SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Aquatic (Honorable mention)
5/18 Westmont-Ridley Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA Night & Day (Best in Show cash prize) Juror Bob Alderette, Roski School of Art & Design, USC)
5/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Abstract and Urban (Group show)
3/18 Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Spring (Group show)
3/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Reality as it were... (Group show)
1/18 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Through Their Eyes (Group show)
12/17 SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, Angels and Things with Wings (Group show)
12/17 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA NOW Contemporary Art (Group show)
10/17 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Rendition (Group show)
8/17 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Viewpoint (Group show)
6/17 Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, Santa Barbara, CA ArtSEE (Juried group)
6/17 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Melange: A Group Show
4/17 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Wildly Diverse (Group show)
4/17 Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Driven to Abstraction (Three-person show)
2/17 Lamperouge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Pickles Galore (Small group, Curator Linda Vallejo )
2/17 Distinctive Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
1/17 Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Juried group)
12/16 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
10/16 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
9/16 Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
8/16 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, (Group show)
6/16 Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Non-Sequitur (Group show)
6/16 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
5/16 10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
4/16 Santa Barbara Sculptors Guild, Santa Barbara, CA BIG, Little, & Open (Juried group) (First place 2D Juror Rafael Perea de la Cabada)
3/16 ArtPic, North Hollywood, CA (Group show)
3/16 Faulkner Gallery, Abstract Art Collective Open, Santa Barbara, CA (Juried group)
1/16 SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Abstract 8 (Group show)
1/16 Lark Gallery, Hawthorne, CA Portal of Opportunities VII (Juried group show)
12/15 Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 100 Grand (Invitational group)
11/15 Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, ArtSEE (Juried group)
9/15 Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, Santa Barbara, CA Artwalk (Juried group)
9/15 Casa Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA The Figure (Juried group)
8/15 ArtPic, North Hollywood, CA (Group show)
8/15 Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, Santa Barbara, CA Visual Monologues (Juried group)
6/15 Santa Barbara Tennis Club, Santa Barbara, CA Aquatic (Invitational group)
5/15 Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Surface and Structure (First place; Juror Colin Frazer Gray)
1/15 Meisel Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Reflection (Juried group)
1/15 SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, Abstract 8 (Small group)
11/14 Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Feast Your Eyes (Group show)
9/14 Casa Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Vertical (Juried group)
9/14 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA 5 x 5 (Invitational group)
9/14 MichaelKate Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Big Art Party! (Group Invitational)
9/14 Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Impoverished Vision: Abstraction to the Rescue (Group invitational)
6/14 SOhO Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA SOhO Presents Painter Marlene Struss (Solo show)
5/14 Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, Santa Barbara, CA Voices (Third place; Juror Jane Deering)
2/14 SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Between Seer and Seen (Invitational)
4/14 Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Special Event), Santa Barbara, CA Off the Wall
(Invitational)
12/13 Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA 100 Grand (Invitational group)
12/13 Santa Barbara College of Law, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
11/13 Olivier, Summerland, CA (Invitational group)
11/13 SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Encore Angels (Juried group)
10/13 CASA Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Celebrating the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral (Invitational)
9/13 Bacara Resort, Santa Barbara, CA 8 x 8 x AAC (Group exhibit and benefit)
8/13 Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA SBSA 12th Annual Open Studios Tour
8/13 Gallery 27, Santa Barbara, CA One Night Stand (Invitational benefit)
7/13 MKI Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Top Twenty (Invitational)
5/13 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, Montecito, CA Confluence (Juror Peter Frank)
4/13 Sulkin/Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Visual Dialogues (Juried group)
2/13 CASA Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Red (Invitational group)
1/13 UCSB Faculty Club, Santa Barbara, CA Independent Studies (Juried group)
12/12 Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA 100 Grand (Invitational group)
12/12 Ergomotion, Santa Barbara, CA (Featured Artist)
11/12 Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Collectible/Give (IInvitational group)
11/12 CASA Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Abstract Matters (Group show)
10/12 Atkinson Extension Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Small Images (Juried show Honorable Mention)
9/12 Santa Barbara College of Law, Santa Barbara, CA Legal Abstracts (Group show)
5/12 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA Lift Off (Juried show - Howard Fox, curator)
4/12 Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Special Event), Santa Barbara, CA Off the Wall
(Invitational)
2/12 MKI Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA I am in Love (Juried show)
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Selected Exhibitions and Awards
Acrylic paintings: Experiments in color and application
Please check the News|Exhibits page for appearances of Marlene Struss paintings in recent movies, television programs, and commercials.
Representation:
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10 West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Marina Kieser/ArtPic, North Hollywood, CA
Digital paintings: Mutations and re-creations from photage images
12/11 Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA 100 Grand (Invitational group)
12/11 Westmont Museum of Art, Montecito, CA 5x5 (Invitational Group)
10/11 Lark Gallery Upstairs, Los Angeles, CA Rediscovery of Wonder (Group show Honorable Mention)
7/11 MKI Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Earth from Space (Invitational group)
6/11 Ethnography Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Council of Masters International Festival (Group show)
5/11 NAWA, New York, NY National Association of Women Artists Members Exhibition
1/11 Michael Kate, Santa Barbara, CA Transition and Transformation (Solo show)
1/11 Assi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Spring, Love, Life (Group show)
12/10 3rd Street Gallery, Long Beach, CA Moonlight Discovery (Invitational group)
11/10 Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA Colors of Life (Group show Honorable Mention)
8/10 Santa Barbara Frame Shop & Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
7/10 Kennedy Publishing, Best Of Worldwide Genre Artists Juried Book Series
(International Invitational)
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Magazine paper photage: Abstract, organic, emphasis on color, movement, form, depth
6/10 Upstream People Gallery 12th Annual Collage, Digital & Mixed Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition (Juried show)
5/10 Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Go Green (Group show)
4/10 Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA Love Thy Earth (Featured artist)
3/10 Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA March (Juried show)
3/10 SBTC Gallery, Montecito, CA 7Up (Group show)
10/09 Atrium Gallery, Ventura County Arts Council, Ventura, CA Recycled Re-Purposed, Art in
a Disposable Society (Juried show)
10/09 Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Reflections and Projections: 20 Years of
Individual Artist Awards (Group show)
9/09 Divine Inspiration Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)
4/09 Elverhoj Museum of History & Art, Solvang, CA Lost & Found (Juried show)
4/09 Goodland Gallery, Goleta, CA Feminine Energy (Two-person show)
3/09 Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ NAWA at 120 (Juried show)
1/09 Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA 2009 Juried Open (Laddie John Dill, Juror)
9/08 Santa Barbara Studio Artists 7th Annual Open Studios Tour, Santa Barbara, CA (Group
& Solo show)
12/07 Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX Crossing Borders: Fifteenth Annual International
Juried Exhibition
10/07 National Ass. of Women Artists, New York, NY Juried Membership
9/07 Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL National Collage Society 23rd Annual Juried Exhibit
(Cash Award, Breathing Mirror)
8/07 Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY Spectrum:The Chakra Element - Indigo (Second Place
Winner)
4/07 Kennedy Publishing, Best Of Artists Juried Book Series (National Winner)
1/07 Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA Beaux & Eros II (Juried show)
9/06 Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA National Collage Society 22nd Annual Juried
Exhibit (showing River of Doubt)
3/06 Kennedy Publishing, Best Of Artists Juried Book Series (CA Winner, Honorable
Mention Award in Mixed Media)
11/05 Tager Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (Group show)
10/05 Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA The Figure Obscured (Juried show)
10/05 Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Wish You Were Here (Group show)
6/05 Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Abstract Visions (Two-person show)
3/05 Santa Barbara Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA Colors of Jazz (Solo show)
12/04 Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA Endings and Beginnings (Group show)
10/04 Santa Barbara Festival of Art & Jazz, Santa Barbara, CA (Juried show)
9/04 Winner of the Santa Barbara Arts Fund 2004 Individual Artists Award in
Assemblage/Collage/Mixed Media (cash prize)
8/04 Don O'Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, CA In America Now (Juried show)
8/04 Absolute Art Gallery, San Marino, CA (Group show)
4/04 Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA Best of the Best (Juried show)
2/04 SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA Engendering the Future (Juried show)
12/03 Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA Firsts (Juried show)
6/03 Townley Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Space Palettes (Solo show)
5/03 National Juried Art Show 2003, Farmingham Museum, NM (Juried show)
5/03 Buenaventura Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA Walltowall (Group show)
5/03 The Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Flora & Fauna (Juried show)
3/03 Buenaventura Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA Portraits as Art (Juried show)
2/03 Buenaventura Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA All’s Fair in Love and War (Juried
show)
9/02 Santa Barbara Artwalk 2003, Santa Barbara, CA (Juried show)
8/02 Neuvie Fine Furniture, Santa Barbara, CA First Photage (Solo show)
5/02 The Frameworks/Caruso Woods Fine Art, Santa Barbara, CA Buddha Abides (Juried
show)
2/02 The Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Love is in the Air (Juried show)
2/02 Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA Spring Obsession Competition (Juried show)
1/02 H. Pollock Fine Art Gallery, Summerland, CA (Group show)
12/01 Reynolds Gallery, Montecito, CA (Juried show - Award Fallen Angel)
12/01 H. Pollock Fine Art Gallery, Summerland, CA (Group show)
10/01 Fine Art Santa Barbara South Coast Competition, Santa Barbara, CA (Juried show)
10/00 Fine Art Santa Barbara South Coast Competition, Santa Barbara, CA (Juried show)
5/00 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (Group show)