Marnie Weber

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Marnie Weber (* 1959 in Bridgeport , Connecticut , USA ) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles . Her work includes photography, sculptures, installations, films, videos and performances. She is also a musician.

Life and work

Marnie Weber was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. She studied from 1977 to 1979 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA .

Much of Weber's artistic work revolves around recurring characters. A bear associated with the Greek goddess Artemis can be found in much of her work. These characters are integrated into lively colorful environments, ornate rooms or dark scary landscapes. Her work mostly depicts the adventures of women who sometimes appear in half-human and half-animal forms with bodies cut out from pornographic magazines or as pale ghosts called “Spirit Girls”. The “Spirit Girls” are the ghosts of five teenagers who come back to the real world after their death to express things that they couldn't express when they were still alive.

Marnie Weber has also worked in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Neuberger Bergman, Inc. in New York , Progressive Corporation in Ohio, and Frac Île-de-France in Paris .

One of Marnie Weber's works was the cover picture of the 1998 album A Thousand Leaves by the band Sonic Youth .

The Spirit Girls is not only the name of some of their artistic characters, but also that of their rock band. Weber has also performed and recorded music with the bands “The Party Boys” and “The Perfect Me”. She has also recorded two solo albums under her first name “Marnie”, Woman with Bass (1994) and Cry for Happy (1996). In 2004 a collection of her work entitled Songs Forgotten: The Best of Marnie 1987-2004 was brought out.

She is married to the Los Angeles artist Jim Shaw .

Their work is mainly referred to as “New Gothic Art”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on marnieweber.com
  2. ↑ Kristina Newhouse: Girls Gone Wild. X-TRA, Volume 10 Number 2, Winter 2007, p. 21.
  3. ↑ Julie Joyce: Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die. in: Marnie Weber: From the Dust Room. Catalog, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State University, Los Angeles, 2005, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Info on bbc.co.uk
  5. ↑ Doug Harvey: Spirits rock among us: A studio visit with Marnie Weber. LA Weekly , Aug 11, 2005, p. 1.
  6. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on marcjancou.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marcjancou.com
  7. ↑ Homepage on arnieweber.com
  8. ↑ Francesca Gavin: Hell Bound: New Gothic Art. Laurence King Publishing, London 2008.

Further evidence

  • Evidence for all exhibitions and performances on marnieweber.com, until 2011.
  • Christopher Miles: Marnie Weber at Patrick Painter Inc., Artforum. XLVI, No. 1, September 2007, pp. 477-478.
  • Ute Thon: Upper-class general store. Art Das Kunstmagazin.de, October 2007.
  • Micol Hebron: Critic's Picks Los Angeles: Marnie Weber. Artforum.com, May 2007.
  • Mary Barone: Out at Frieze. Artnet.com, October 2007.
  • Hunter Drohojowsha-Philpr: That's The Spirit. Artnet.com, May 23, 2007.
  • Annie Buckley: Spirit Girl. Craft: transforming traditional crafts, Vol. 04, 2007, pp. 60-62.
  • Fantasy Freaky: Marnie Weber. Dazed & Confused, April 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Marnie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgeport , Connecticut, USA