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Heather Marcus Paintings

American, b. 1939
New York artist Heather Marcus has pursued a career spanning more than four decades of sculpture, portraiture, and abstract painting. Trained as a painter and sculptor, she graduated with honors from the University of Kansas. She subsequently spent twenty years creating abstract painted-aluminum constructions, ranging from tabletop pieces and wall-mounted installations to monumental site-specific commissions for hospitals, corporate centers, and public spaces. Her sculpture has been widely exhibited, including selection for “12 Texas Women” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and is held in many private and public collections. After relocating to New York in 1998, she concentrated on portrait painting. She has completed more than 300 commissions for private and institutional clients across the U.S. and internationally, while continuing the close observation of form, color, and spatial relationships that characterized her earlier sculpture. She has recently returned to abstraction, translating the visual and tactile excitement of working in three dimensions into oil on canvas. Her paintings draw directly on the vocabulary of her earlier constructions: angular forms, overlapping planes, and balanced areas of color create movement, depth, rhythm, and shifting spatial relationships. Her compositions also reflect a lifelong devotion to music and dance.
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Artist: Heather Marcus
Sarabande No. 2, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40
Sarabande No. 2, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

Sarabande No. 2, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

“Sarabande No. 2” is a contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas in which angular forms and overlapping planes create a measured interplay of movement and balance. The title refe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nocturne, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed
Nocturne, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed

Nocturne, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

“Nocturne” is a contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas immersed in shades of blue. The title reflects the painting's atmosphere as much as its color. Deep, saturated blues giv...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Intermezzo, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed
Intermezzo, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed

Intermezzo, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

“Intermezzo” is a contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas in which color and form move rhythmically across the surface. Curving shapes overlap, separate, and reappear, creating ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fanfare, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed
Fanfare, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed

Fanfare, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

“Fanfare” is a contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas alive with spiraling forms, vivid color, and rhythmic movement. Sweeping curves, bold arcs, and bursts of color rise and u...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Invention, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40
Invention, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

Invention, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

“Invention” is a contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas with curving forms, arcs, and spirals that move across and through one another in a lively interplay of color and shape....

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vivace, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed
Vivace, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed

Vivace, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 48 x 36 Unframed

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

Contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas. The composition grows out of the curving forms, layered shapes, and sense of movement in my painted-aluminum constructions. Color and fo...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rhapsody, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40
Rhapsody, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

Rhapsody, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

Contemporary abstract oil painting on cotton canvas. The painting translates the curving forms, layered shapes, and spatial movement of my earlier painted-aluminum constructions into...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Minuet, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40
Minuet, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

Minuet, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 40

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

“Minuet” is a contemporary abstract oil painting on cotton canvas whose graceful, interlocking forms suggest movement, rhythm, and dance. Sweeping ribbons and fan-like shapes turn, o...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Étude, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed
Étude, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed

Étude, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

Étude Étude is an energetic abstract composition built around repetition and variation. Curving lines, spirals, circles, and sweeping arcs recur across the canvas, often appearing i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Duet, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed
Duet, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed

Duet, Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 40 x 30 Unframed

By Heather Marcus

Located in New York, NY

Duet "Duet" is a lyrical abstract composition in which sweeping curves, spirals, and overlapping planes rise and intertwine across the canvas. Soft blues, greens, pinks, and violets...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Heather Marcus Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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