MARLEN LUGO

Unsynchronized Swimmer

32” x 46”

Water base colors, collaged paper and decal in frame

$4800

Tuxedo Fertilizer

32” X 46”

Water base colors, collaged paper, burlap and leather in frame

$5600

Butterfly Scientist

32” x 46”

Framed, water base colors and collaged paper in frame

$5600

Bell Skirt

27” x 35”

Water base colors in frame

$3800

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, I grew in a surreal vision environment where events took magical qualities and informed my day-to-day life.

I came to the United States to attend art school in Boston. After receiving a BFA from Tufts University I became involved with a group of artists creating site-specific installations.

2021 has brought me to Nashville TN. Here my work has been influenced by the lake and nature that exists outside my studio. There is a greater amount of contemplation and dreams That are manifesting through my visual work. As seasons evolve so is the art that I experiment with daily.

I engage in Drawing and Painting daily. As a surrealist I allow for my forms to manifest through my pen, scratching the surface to inhabit a space that is not fixed.

As dismembered pieces or exquisite corpses, I assemble them into paper and paint, pulling them together into one, making them whole.

The results are amorphous, ever changing. The viewer can identify or not with an aspect of the self. One thing today, another tomorrow.

Not limited to visual reverie, their context gives them life, sometimes meaning. Nature comes through and gets re-interpret. I am their tool of portrayal: And through a personal aesthetic they emerge.

The latest body of work is inspired by an imaginary place called The Republic of Wonder.

Here, in Reverie my characters are portrayed in singular activities that could be human, however they are not singular. These characters have tools and aspirations that are interchangeable with other members of the Republic.

They are shown at times surrounded by geometric patterns to give them dimension in a physical reality, as if physicality will contain their boundless nature.