Philomena Marano Mixed Media
American, b. 1952
Philomena was raised in Brooklyn, just a stone’s throw from America’s most famous amusement park, Coney Island. She is most known for cut paper collage and limited edition prints in her acclaimed collection, “American-Dream-Land” in which she depicts both personal and universal themes in the rides, signs and attractions of her childhood playground.
In 2017 , a move to Florida shifted her attention to the circus thrill shows of Sarasota. The precision, exhilaration and wonder embedded in the spectacle of these performances were a definite reminder of the fun and danger of the wondrous mechanical constructions in Coney Island; a continuity of earlier sensibilities.
She acquired and honed her cut paper skills while working as an assistant to preeminent artist Robert Indiana in his New York studio on a prodigious cut paper project rendering set and costume designs for “The Mother of Us All”, Santa Fe Opera. In 2020, she was invited to give artist talks at the MFA St. Pete’s, FL. on her experiences working on the project in an exhibition titled: Art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney where many of Indiana’s stage designs from “Mother” were displayed.
Marano is co-founder of the Coney Island Hysterical Society, earned a BFA from Pratt Institute , and has been included in numerous galleries including Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn ,NY, ACA Gallery, NY, New York, Deutsche Bank, NY, New York, The DeLand Museum of Art, FL., Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL., and the Art Center Sarasota.
Her work is featured in Charles Denson’s book, “Coney Island, Lost and Found,”
Ten Speed Press, 2002, SRQ magazine, 2021 , Luxe Interior + Design, 2021, Between 2Two Shores, a UK based Literary & Art publication, 2021, among others
and is in many private and corporate collections including the Brooklyn Museum.to
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Artist: Philomena Marano
Seabrush Romp, colorful, undersea scene, aquatic , whimsical creatures playful
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Seabrush Romp" is a unique combination of precisely cut colored paper layered over painted wood. It is part of a recent series I call "wUNDERsea, which heralds the wondrous beauty ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Acrylic
Jellyfish colorful aquatic, whimsical, undersea, lyrical ocean life
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Well known for her cut paper artwork, and amusement park themes, Ms. Marano’s delightful imagery is included in numerous books and documentaries about Coney Island history.
In this ...
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2010s Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Acrylic, Paper
Under the Sea colorful aquatic hard edge playful detailed ocean life
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Under The Sea" was created in collaboration with a poet's words , thus transforming it into visual poetry. The narrative tells of a tiny sea turtle's launch and return from a long j...
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2010s Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Panel
Pirates Den
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pirates Den is a playful hard edge composition created in bold and delicate hand cut paper shapes mounted on a wood panel. Abstract forms hint at the unusual structures found beneath...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Used Tires, urban street scene, industrial, hard edge, hand cut paper, collage
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage: Hand cut color-aid paper on gessoed heavyweight watercolor paper
framed in a flat gray painted wood frame with plexi.
Philomena is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA fr...
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2010s Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Black Beauty Meets the Coral Reef, colorful, graphic undersea fantasy
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
BIO
Artist Philomena Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the f...
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2010s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Paper, Wood Panel
"Under the Wonder, "bold, colorful, playful, arrow, dynamic shaped edges
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Under the Wonder " evokes the sensation of being beneath giant ride in an amusement park plus its title suggests a double entendre; being under the b...
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2010s Pop Art Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Phantastical, Meaningful colorful imaginative undersea fantasy aquatic motion
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Phantastical, Meaningful" is a unique combination of precisely cut colored paper layered over painted wood. It is part of a recent series I call "wUNDERsea, which heralds the wondro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Paper, Acrylic
Floating collage and painted colorful serene undersea scape
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Artist Philomena Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Black Beauty meets the Rainbow Reef whimsical, colorful undersea cut paper
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
BIO
Artist Philomena Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the f...
Category
2010s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Wood Panel
PLAY FASCINATION 2, colorful mixed media, text
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic on canvas paper, mounted on masonite with black enamel painted frame.
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1990s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Enamel
Seahorse Garden hard edge colorful aquatic whimsical undersea
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Seahorse Garden" is surprisingly hard edged and whimsical at once. It is part of my "wUNDERsea" series.
The work aims to bring together the childhood wonder of visits to the aquari...
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2010s Abstract Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
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FLAT, cut paper collage urban New York street culture industrial
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"FLAT" Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper
Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
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2010s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper
PLAY, colorful, dynamic, kinetic mixed media paint and collage
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
To create PLAY the artist reached back and up cycled materials that she had worked with in the past. She combined sections of her archival pigment prints collaged with painted wood ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Archival Paper
Alarm, Rims, Tint, Urban scene, city, hard edge, graphic, industrial, tires
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alarms, Rims,Tint is part of Marano's FLAT FIX series-
Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper, framed in flat gray painted wood & plexi.
Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
Category
2010s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Pop" Corn, pop art colorful hand cut paper
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hand cut color-aid paper by renowned cut paper artist specializing in Brooklyn Coney Island themes. Ms. marano started her career working with Robert Indiana
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1990s Pop Art Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper
Big Lolly & Cone, colorful, bold, candy, abstract, hard edge, playful, pop art
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Big Lolly & Cone is a mixed media piece featuring a swirly lollypop, an icon of american amusements and escapism plus an ice-cream cone, another sweet treat. The swirly lolly is ren...
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Tickets/ Coney Island, colorful detailed cut paper, urban New York graphic
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Color Aid paper, Paint, Contemporary collage
Hand cut color-aid paper
Worked with Robert Indiana
Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] th...
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Early 2000s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper
Improv 2, cut paper, abstract, graphic, industrial, playful, urban, city
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper on 2 ply archival board
Ms. Marano says, "Using salvaged pieces of color aid paper from my "Flat Fix" series I create compositions that are at once mechanical and whimsical."
Artist Philomena Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
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2010s Contemporary Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Improv 1 cut paper, graphic, industrial, playful, urban, city
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper on 2 ply archival board
Using salvaged pieces of color aid paper from my "Flat Fix" series I create compositions that are at once mechanical and whimsical.
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2010s Abstract Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper
"Tondo/Your Choice" bright colors, words, circle canvas, bumper cars, abstract
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Tondo/Your Choice" 2020, is created from pieces of balsa wood, salvaged pieces of colorful cut paper and prints from my Coney Island series. Pieces are attached to a circle canvas....
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2010s Abstract Geometric Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Girls Play to Win, women's Baseball sports diptych colorful shaped canvases
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Girls Play to Win" is a diptych honoring the poise and strength of the first women's American Baseball league. The AAGPBL (All American Girls Professional Baseball League) was estab...
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I KNOW YOU, colorful Coney Island parachute jump theme w abstract clouds, sky
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Print on circular canvas, collage, architecture, Parachute Jump, Coney Island colorful, clouds, tondo
Category
2010s Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Paper
Car Service, cut paper collage, urban landscape, hard edge, bold graphic, text
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
CAR SERVICE
Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper, framed in flat gray painted wood & plexi. Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
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Early 2000s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
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Luna's Tire Shop, Urban, cut paper collage, playful, industrial, tires, framed
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
LUNA'S TIRE SHOP :
Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper, framed in flat gray painted wood & plexi.
Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn...
Category
2010s American Modern Philomena Marano Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper
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