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Marjorie Kouns Fine Art

Shades of Shreveport
April 15, 2010 – January 6, 2011

Shades of Shreveport consisted of twenty of the original lampshades from the ‘Well-Lit Chess Pieces’ (NYC) public art project. These giant whimsical lamp covers adorned the street lights along the 700 block of Texas Street in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana. This public art project was fiscally sponsored by Shreveport Regional Arts Council.

Feature Article:

https://www.iwu.edu/magazine/2005/fall/kouns_feature.html

Lamp Shades & Chess Pieces:

http://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/wsp_majorie_kouns_art

Well-Lit Chess Pieces
Washington Square Park 2005 – 06

Well-Lit Chess Pieces, was a two-part public art project of 11 life-sized chess pieces and 26 rainbow-colored park light lampshades displayed throughout the four corner entrances of Washington Square Park – NYC.

Knight
Pawn King and Rook

Marjorie Kouns – Body As Canvas / Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Chicago & Bossier City (LA).
Body As Canvas blends dance, music, and painting into a
visual, audio, and kinesthetic performance.
Presented at the first annual Omniart in conjunction with
Art Basel / Miami 2004.

Drawings

Venus (1997)
Venus (1997)
DNA (1996)
DNA (1996)
Undiscovered Cells (1996)
Undiscovered Cells (1996)
Abnormal Beauty (1996)
Abnormal Beauty (1996)
Study For Undiscovered Cells (1996)
Study For Undiscovered Cells (1996)
Abnormal Beauty (1996)
Abnormal Beauty (1996)
Natural Forms (1997)
Natural Forms (1997)
Number 9 (1997)
Number 9 (1997)
Mosaic of Power (1997)
Mosaic of Power (1997)
Elegant Cross (1997)
Elegant Cross (1997)
Power Study (1997)
Power Study (1997)
Vortex (1997)
Vortex (1997)
Before (2002)
Before (2002)
During (2002)
During (2002)
After (2002)
After (2002)
Mind Summit M2K (2002)
Mind Summit M2K (2002)
Beauty Mist (2002)
Beauty Mist (2002)
Rose and Orange Petal Study #1 (2002)
Rose and Orange Petal Study #1 (2002)
Roja (1980)
Roja (1980)
Azul (1980)
Azul (1980)
Untitled – Verticals (1979)
Untitled – Verticals (1979)
Mauve (1981)
Mauve (1981)
Study of intersection (1979)
Study of intersection (1979)
Rose and Orange Petal Study #1 (2002)
Rose and Orange Petal Study #1 (2002)
Genuine Glow (2003)
Genuine Glow (2003)
Eye Candy (2003)
Eye Candy (2003)
Whose Life Have I been Living? (2003)
Whose Life Have I been Living? (2003)
What and Why I Love (2003)
What and Why I Love (2003)
The Truth; The Mind; You (2003)
The Truth; The Mind; You (2003)
Shady Lady (2003)
Shady Lady (2003)
HRT D.I.D.s (2003)
HRT D.I.D.s (2003)
Head Trip (2003)
Head Trip (2003)
Lost . . . Love (2003)
Lost . . . Love (2003)
Time to Let Go (2003)
Time to Let Go (2003)

Paintings

Nowhere Happiness (1999)
Nowhere Happiness (1999)
Synapse #1 (1999)
Synapse #1 (1999)
The Flow (1997)
The Flow (1997)
Macular Regeneration (1997)
Macular Regeneration (1997)
Synapse #2 (1999)
Synapse #2 (1999)
Synapse #3 (1999)
Synapse #3 (1999)
Free Expression (1996)
Free Expression (1996)
Freedom of Speech (1996)
Freedom of Speech (1996)
True Identity (1996)
True Identity (1996)
Virtual Receptors (1996)
Virtual Receptors (1996)
Untitled (yellow) (1996)
Untitled (yellow) (1996)
Powhirlful Being (1996)
Powhirlful Being (1996)
Untitled (red) (1996)
Untitled (red) (1996)
Undiscovered Cells (1996)
Undiscovered Cells (1996)
Eventide (1997)
Eventide (1997)
The Goddess (1997)
The Goddess (1997)
The Vision (1997)
The Vision (1997)
Aneurysm I (1997)
Aneurysm I (1997)
Aneurysm II (1997)
Aneurysm II (1997)
Aneurysm III (1997)
Aneurysm III (1997)
Trenado (detail) (1997)
Trenado (detail) (1997)
Telphal (1998)
Telphal (1998)
Cherry Blossoms (1996)
Cherry Blossoms (1996)
Full Moon (1997)
Full Moon (1997)
Golden Opportunities (1998)
Golden Opportunities (1998)
Barometric Pressure (1996)
Barometric Pressure (1996)
Magma (1996)
Magma (1996)
It all came at once (2003)
It all came at once (2003)
Footprints (2002)
Footprints (2002)
Emotional Eye Wash (2002)
Emotional Eye Wash (2002)
T Series (2002)
T Series (2002)
AT Series (2002)
AT Series (2002)

Mixed Media

Illuminata (1999)
Illuminata (1999)
Self Portrait (1998)
Self Portrait (1998)
A True Visionary (1999)
A True Visionary (1999)
Parental Guidance (1999)
Parental Guidance (1999)
Vortex Traffic (1999)
Vortex Traffic (1999)
Manna #1 (1999)
Manna #1 (1999)
Lampalia (2000)
Lampalia (2000)
Naked Girls Singing (2003)
Naked Girls Singing (2003)
My Inner Voices Recital (2003)
My Inner Voices Recital (2003)
Nine Days Wonder (2003)
Nine Days Wonder (2003)
Hillary – U.S. (2001)
Hillary – U.S. (2001)
Data Diva (2001)
Data Diva (2001)
Manna #3 (1999)
Manna #3 (1999)
Manna #2 (1999)
Manna #2 (1999)
Lady M (1999)
Lady M (1999)
Source of Power (2001)
Source of Power (2001)
The French Connection (1999)
The French Connection (1999)
Trinity (2001)
Trinity (2001)

Installation

Fugitive Data (2000)
Fugitive Data (2000)
Installation Berlin (Part 1) (1997)
Installation Berlin (Part 1) (1997)
Installation Berlin (Part 2) (1997)
Installation Berlin (Part 2) (1997)

Photography

Point of No (2001)
Point of No (2001)
September 11 (2001)
September 11 (2001)
Election Day NYC (2001)
Election Day NYC (2001)
Rememberance (2001)
Rememberance (2001)
The afterglow (2001)
The afterglow (2001)
Here, Read This (2001)
Here, Read This (2001)
Relaxing Red (1996)
Relaxing Red (1996)
RedCross (2001)
RedCross (2001)
Flagshadow (2001)
Flagshadow (2001)
GodBless (2001)
Flagshadow (2001)
MinettaCandles (2001)
MinettaCandles (2001) Digital Print
Ray's Memorial (2001)
Ray's Memorial (2001)
The Whirl (1996)
The Whirl (1996)
Feline Dreams (1995)
Feline Dreams (1995)
Mirror Friends (1996)
Mirror Friends (1996)
The Call Of The Soul (2001)
The Call Of The Soul (2001)
Mineral Muse (1996)
Mineral Muse (1996)
Sunclocks (1995)
Sunclocks (1995)

Bio

Marjorie Kouns is an artist based in Atlanta, GA, where she is currently an Artist-in-Residence. She has mounted exhibitions in Berlin, Istanbul, Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, and Washington D.C., where she was commissioned to create a memorial commemorating those lost in the horrors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

At Illinois Wesleyan University her studies in painting and drawing gave way to a desire to become a sculptor. This desire has remained with her for over twenty years and has lead to both national and international success. Of course she saw sculpture in a very different way.

Kouns found her calling in the ‘public’ studio and soon began to create public art first in her own neighborhood and soon all over the world. Her first installation was created in New York’s Washington Sq. Park in 2005. Here, she created Well-Lit Chess Pieceswith hugely oversized chesspieces and whimsical lampshades that adorned the lights along the four corner park entrances. It was a visual sensation and a very popular attraction for locals, tourists, and the even the uptowners.

Other commissions soon followed allowing her to create public art all over the world. Her focus is on connecting the public to art by encouraging active participation in the creative process. “I get excited to see how the creative mind works in others by giving them the opportunity to try their own hand at this task,” says Kouns.

Recent Works

Body As Canvas (BAC) performance series of dance, music and painting was featured in a group show in Chicago at WomanMade Gallery curated by Mary King. ‘BAC’ was recently presented at the ‘Look but Don’t Touch Nude Show’ 2012 at Bossier Arts Council in Bossier City, Louisiana. ‘Body As Canvas’ has been performed at select venues in Los Angeles and New York City, and Omniart honoring Art Basel/Miami 2004-05.

– Social Media Murals, a division of Pixie Dust Productions, L.L.C. launched in Shreveport, Louisiana. This is one example in a series of low tech and high touch mural concepts created and produced for culturally underserved urban and rural areas.

– Other social media murals include “What’s Cooking”, and The Shreveport Common murals, in which Kouns was one of ten artists awarded grants from the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Mayor’s Institute on City Design Grant in conjunction with Shreveport Regional ArtsCouncil/Shreveport Common Artists Collaboration. With ‘A Call To Action’ project she contributed the initial designs, conception production, and management necessary to launch this work for the Shreveport/Bossier Convention and Tourism Bureau headquarters.

– Commissioned Murals include: Children’s Aid Society (P.S. 50) New York, NY-July 2005 (Deutsche Bank / Sponsor) and New York Cares Day’s and ‘Human Sundial’ El Barrio’s Artspace (P.S. 109), New York, NY, October 2003; ‘Cultural Monitors’ Lefferts Jr. High (M.S. 61), Brooklyn, NY, October 2002; and ‘The Seasons’, Richard Green School (M.S. 113) Bronx, NY-October 2001.

– Hudson River Park Day, June 2001: Piers 25 and 26. This public art project was produced in conjunction with Materials for the Arts – NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Kouns and local children explored Hudson River marine life by creating supersized Styrofoam fish as well as human sundials.

In September of 1997, Kouns was commissioned by the MotherCenters (a German non-governmental organization), to present the Satellite Mural Project: three murals painted with the participation and collaboration of children and parents who are residents of Mother Centers in Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Munich.

Upcoming Projects

Public Art Launch of ‘Lighting The Way’ The Park at St. Luke’s Atlanta, GA –  Fall 2022, plus a Public Art Commission for Franklin Park Park District, Illinois in 2023 – 2024.
Stay tuned!