Marjorie Minkin

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 she first witnessed by spending her childhood summers near the Atlantic Ocean, then working in her studio in a mill building next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts. Minkin’s abstract paintings on canvas, paper and Lexan reliefs express her engagement with the reflections of light and the flow of movement 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 School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. she earned a studio-based 4th Year Diploma. Upon completion of the fifth 5th Year Certificate from the Museum School in 1979, she won the prestigious Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship for her painting. Her travels further focused Minkin’s love of light and color in Italy when she visited Padua to see the frescoes of Giotto and Vence, France to see Matisse’s stained glass windows in the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence.

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 many exhibitions in the US, Canada, Europe and South Korea. Her paintings are in many public collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Harvard Art Museum, Museum of Art, Flint, MI, Art in the 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.