Friday, Dec. 13 at 6pm, artist Roberta B. Marks, will give a presentation of work featured in the new anthology book WORKS AND WORLDS. Marks, who has an MFA from the University of South Florida, is widely collected. Her works are featured in numerous museums and galleries throughout the country and Europe and she has taught widely, including regular classes at The Studios of Key West.
The first monograph on the artist explores her collages and constructions, which focus on the themes of memory, time, and transcendence through the feminist and Buddhist perspective that has defined the evolution of her work. Marks creates constructions that have an intimacy to them and at the same time contain entire worlds of feeling and memory.
Each vignette is a narrative of a personal nature as she transforms a range of objects and materials, often of mundane and humble origin, into eloquent and highly personal forms of self-expression. Marks’s work speaks to the human impulse to collect, preserve, and immortalize and her pieces 
are intuitive and instinctual, exuding a sense of mystery. The viewer enters into an intensely private realm, yet the themes are universal—loss, longing, old age, death, repression, and liberation—evoking a feeling of familiarity within the mystery.
A practicing Buddhist, Marks achieves her clarity through daily meditation. She has written “when constructing a work, I pare it down to the essence–the minimal. Each chosen object represents years of seeing with acute awareness.” Marks’s writings accompany a selection of approximately 200 of her most evocative works.