Marilyn Keating

From May 12 - September 23, 2012 the most comprehensive display of Marilyn’s work ever to be exhibited will be on view at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. With a focus on nature, recent works and older works will be joined in a joyous hodgepodge of objects flying, hanging, and sitting in the beautiful upper level of the Domestic Arts Building. You will experience objects both large and small of paper, wood, metal, mosaic and found objects. Mosaics will also be included by the downstairs front window.

Curator Virginia Oberlin Steel writes:
On the DAB’s Mezzanine is Marilyn Keating’s Natural Curiosities, a selection of sculptures and prints spanning almost thirty years and revealing her ongoing fascination with nature as encountered in daily life. Over the past twelve years, she has transformed her backyard to attract birds, bugs and butterflies, all of whom have become the inspiration for and the subject of her art. Imbued with the veracity of folk art, Marilyn Keating's artworks have an irresistible quality that resonates with viewers of all ages.
A brilliant worker of wood—the medium she favors—Keating saws, carves or assembles her sculptures from pieces of wood of various origins and then attaches bits of string, paper, metal shapes, old children's toys and other materials to it. Her strong affinity with woodworking has translated into an extensive series of hand-colored woodblock prints on Asian papers. Keating's prints as well as her sculptures have a tactile quality that invite close inspection, which is always rewarded by the discovery of details that might be sobering, surprising or humorous.

Marilyn Keating received her BFA in sculpture from Moore College of Art
in Philadelphia, Pa. Throughout the last 15 years she has concentrated
much of her energy on public art, outdoor art and community projects.
She works as a Teaching Artist for State of NJ.
Though skilled in many materials, Marilyn is first
and foremost a woodworker. She has been the recipient of three
fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts,
has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions,
and has work in many public and private collections. Marilyn is a 2007 recipient of
The George and Helen Segal Foundation Award for New Jersey sculptors.
This site highlights Marilyn's studio work. Marilyn also works in partnership with Debra Sachs
on public art and studio projects at The South Jersey Museum of Curiosities.
They also make custom designed canes and walking sticks.