Marja Lianko

sculpture and painting

email : mlianko@verizon.net
web : www.marjaliankoart.com/

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statement

Marja Lianko, a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, served at the School as a faculty member for twenty three years where she taught courses in printmaking and mixed media. Her work has been exhibited in numerous regional galleries and museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum, the De Cordova Museum, the Art Complex Museum and the Rose Museum. In 2004 she received a fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. In 1994 Lianko was a recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts NEA Regional Fellowship. Her work is represented in many public and private collections including those at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Musem, the De Cordova Museum, IBM, Fidelity Investments and John Hancock Insurance Company.

This is what she writes about her most recent work:
Much of my work evolves around personal symbolism. The landscape of my childhood continues feeding my work. Through my images I repeatedly return to the vast forests of birches and pine trees, to the ten thousand lakes and the granite gardens of yesteryear. I return to the strong and stubborn people, molded by a harsh climate and hard work.