Marbie

Biography
photo of Marbie in a garden holding a skateboard
Marbie is an artist and professional skateboarder from a small town in Iowa, based in Oakland, California. Her work focuses on her inner life and the characters who compose it, using a unique collage style to express her intense feelings of yearning, solitude, intimacy, and affection that make up her identity. These characters and their dream-like environments manifest as vivid colors, robust shapes, and wavy twisting lines, rooted in real-life relationships that are central to the artist's practice. Marbie's flat works use symbols like the moon or orbs with a distinct cut-out look to represent someone or something watching over or orbiting the artist, reflecting on how time passes differently in the silence of solitude or the ebullience of love.

 

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Works
  • A paper collage of two figures standing, holding each other--one embraces the other with her left arm holding one side and right leg holding the other, her brown hands touching each other on the other figure's back. Both figures are dressed colofully, one wearing oragne and red pants, the other wearing forest and mint green pants.
    AT LAST, 2023
  • two figures made in paper stand back to back, their hands entwined with one another. They're wearing one brown and one black boot. The figure on the right wears yellow pants and a purple top, the figure on the left wears green and blue pants and a red and orange top.
    BACK TO BACK, 2023
  • One figure knealing in front of another. The kneeling figure places her hands on the other's knees, the seated figure facing us places her hands on her hair, fingers in her blue hair.
    BLOWN AWAY, 2023
  • Two figures lay next to each other in bed, their legs and arms twisted around each other in a loving embrace. One wears a red and peach top and green pants, the other a purple top with blue pants. Their skin is painted yellow
    IN BED, 2023
  • Marbie's painting of the moon and a figure wearing white boots in various colors
    STEP BY STEP, 2023
  • Marbie, Confident, 2022
    Confident, 2022
  • Marbie, Discovery, 2022
    Discovery, 2022
  • Marbie, EVERY TIME, 2022
    EVERY TIME, 2022
  • Marbie, In and Out, 2022
    In and Out, 2022
  • Marbie, LONELY LAKE, 2022
    LONELY LAKE, 2022
  • Marbie, PUSH AND PULL, 2022
    PUSH AND PULL, 2022
  • Marbie, STUCK IN PLACE, 2022
    STUCK IN PLACE, 2022
  • Marbie, To Dance, 2022
    To Dance, 2022
  • Marbie, TOO MUCH, 2022
    TOO MUCH, 2022
  • collage depicting a person leaning against a wall by MARBIE
    TRYING TO BE COOL, 2022
  • Marbie, WHY BOTHER?, 2022
    WHY BOTHER?, 2022
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