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 Touching artwork  July 6 (Timesleader.com)  text to article follows
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Lisa
Touching artwork
Exhibit for blind is goal of area gallery's fund-raiser
By GENELLE HOBAN 
KINGSTON - An artist from Kingston recently had a vision to create an art
exhibit for the blind by using different types of textures for them to
feel. 
"Art is mostly imagination," said Marelle, who uses just one name. "I do
make my art look pretty, but you can also touch it and still get a feeling
of beauty. Approaching this project, I am excited mostly to find out how
my art feels to the blind." 
La Marelle gallery, which means hopscotch in French, will be holding an
art sale at Allure, the area's only salon gallery, in Kingston on Saturday
at 7 p.m. All proceeds will benefit a future art exhibit for the blind. 
"I was working on a painting called 'With Child,' when I touched it and
thought of the idea," said Marelle, 39. "I figure art is subjective, and
whether you are blind or you can see, you either like it or you don't." 
She uses all sorts of fabrics, beads, door knobs, old wedding gowns,
jewelry and feathers in her art. 
"I could get my supplies at art stores, but it's not the same," Marelle
said. "I prefer to get them at flea markets, or from people who give me
their broken jewelry or old wedding gowns." 
Marelle said she isn't sure how to classify her art except that it's a
type of vintage/modern, but one thing she is sure of is that she has never
seen anything else like it. 
"I make stuff I like so if it doesn't sell I keep it," Marelle said. "My
favorite type of art to create would have to be three-dimensional murals.
I just love working with very large surfaces." 
Her art ranges in all sorts of three-dimensional varieties from paintings
to candle holders to portraits and even to purses. 
"In this next series I will be paying much more attention to the details
of touch as well as the visual perspective," Marelle said. "I can't wait
to see how it is interpreted by the visually challenged." 
Marelle, originally from New Jersey, has been drawing since she was in
first grade. At 22, her portraits were on display at the Pastel Society of
America in New York, founded in 1972. 
"I get inspiration for my art from somewhere else," Marelle said. "I come
up with an idea and I just go with it, I'm never out of ideas. Luckily, I
haven't hit that block yet." 
Her goal for the blind art exhibit is to have it traveling nationally from
gallery to gallery. 
"This is only the beginning and I don't see it failing at all," Marelle
said. "I am going to invite other artists to be part of this exhibit
because then you can have a bigger exhibit and bigger is always better." 
Marelle said she spoke with some nonprofit organizations in New York who
are interested in being involved with the blind art exhibit. 
"A lot of mediums can come to this blind art exhibit like sculptures and
the such," Marelle said. "I would like to see it all come together this
fall depending on how fast everyone can put it together, but definitely
before the holidays." 
Marelle and a friend are planning a future fund-raiser at an art gallery
in South Beach, Fla. 
FOR THE TIMES LEADER/AIMEE DILGER 
Marelle sits in front of her mosaic table titled 'Tea Party Table' covered
with broken plates and beads. 
This painting reminded Marelle of one of her favorite storybook poems,
'Winkin, Blinkin, Nod,' and so she named the painting after it. 
'Rebecca's Weary,' Marelle's favorite piece, depicts a story that the
artist made up for her children about the Angel Rebecca. 
'Zach' is actually the second painting done of Marelle's dog. The first
was done in high school before she ever had him as a pet. She believes he
was sent to her and so she painted him as an angel the second time around.


Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx



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