Marzia Ransom

The figure is what I love: a customized skin tone on indulgent fields of colors is how I present it. Within the surface, all the tools at my disposal play in a concerto of tones, sometimes harmoniously, occasionally incongruently. I fight to give tridimensionality a twist. A figure, or a face, is placed on flat globs of colors to create tension and discomfort. I attack the surface, and then I let it breathe for a while. This is a slow process, in which I rearrange, erase, recreate, glaze and scratch, until satisfaction is achieved.
As a figure painter, I want to retain the purity of line and anatomical correctness. Once that is attained, I go back to the figure distorting fingers, limbs, faces, exaggerating one feature more than another; I then mold the expression into the perfect emotion. Some of these paintings are thin in nature, just glazes and wet paint. Others are composed with an impasto of colors, incised with knives, violated by the back of the brush. Live models, photographs, and memory are all indiscriminately used in trying to capture the essential expression of the beloved form.
My work relates deeply to historical figures, mythology, and literary events. In these narratives, I often find ideas for my larger composit...

MFA from Massart, Boston, 2010

Featured Exhibitions:
2018 Ars Musae-The Odyssey Frieze, The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL. 2017 Ars Musae, solo show, TAG, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL.
2012 Marzia Ellero Ransom, solo show, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL. 2010 Deificatio, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA.
2008 Emulsification Exhibition #2 Feat. Hamlet (The Worst of Hamlet), collaboration with John Ransom, Gallery 88, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL.
2007 Ritratti, Senior Bachelor of Fine Arts Student Exhibition, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL.
Living in Art, Bayfront Lofts, Gallery Night, Pensacola, FL.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 Repurpose, Faculty Exhibition, TAG, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL PHILIC / PHOBIC, Pop-Up Show, PMoA, Pensacola, FL.
The Reflected Self: A Cultural History of Portraiture, PMoA, Pensacola, FL.
2016 50th Anniversary Alumni Invitational, Visual Arts Department, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL.
The Feminist Iconography Show, Artel Gallery, ...