Photo of Marjorie Minkin © Kim Indresano
Marjorie Minkin was born in Cambridge MA and continues to live and work in the Boston area.
Minkin’s art is influenced by her early experiences of the ever-changing effects of light on water first witnessed by spending summers near the Atlantic Ocean then, in her studios near rivers in old mill buildings primarily in Waltham, and North Adams, Massachusetts. Daily exposure crossing the Sudbury River enroute to her Waltham studio in every season served as visual stimulation. Minkin’s abstract paintings on canvas, paper and Lexan reliefs express her engagement with light, movement and change on water.
A philosophy major who minored in studio art, Minkin earned a BA from Skidmore College then a master’s degree in philosophy from Boston University before she returned to her love of painting full time. At “the Museum School,” she earned both a studio-based 4th Year Diploma followed by a 5th Year Certificate, a competition for a prestigious Traveling Fellowship that she won for her painting in 1979, from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. The travelling fellowship focused Minkin’s love of light and color: in Italy, she saw Giotto’s frescos in the light filled churches of Padua and Assisi and in Southern France, she visited the Matisse Museum and Chapel of the Rosary.
In 1982 Minkin attended the inaugural workshop of the Triangle Arts Association founded by sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and founder of Gasworks Robert Loder This experience profoundly affected her work, both her canvases and ultimately her Lexan reliefs. She has served on Triangle’s advisory board for many years.
Minkin’s work has been in over 80 exhibitions in the US, Europe and South Korea. Her paintings are in many public collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Art; Harvard Art Museums; Museum of Art, Flint, MI; Art at the Lucy Scribner Library, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, and the National Gallery of Prague. Her work is in private collections in the US, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Australia, South Korea, and India.