Marianne Sung
Artist member since 2021
ProToronto, Ontario
**View my NEW COLLECTION at the Artist Project art fair from April 11-14 at Exhibition Place, Toronto!**
Marianne is an emerging and self-taught Korean-Canadian artist. Radiating warmth and light, her art is intended to spark feelings of magic while inspiring nostalgia. Her varied colours, shades, and marks are applied through thin and transparent layers of acrylics and mixed media. She is primarily influenced by her deep connections to the places and things in her current home of Ontario, her upbringing in Québec and travels worldwide. She also often uses neon hues to express the intersection between the natural and digital, blurring views of the real and unreal.
Currently, Marianne focuses on painting landscapes, especially trees to express themes of identity, belonging, interconnectedness and our need for community as a means for sustainability. Similar to humans, trees and flora have a higher survival rate growing and sharing in a supportive family or group. Trees communicate with and support each other, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling. As well, humans have a symbiotic relationship with plant life as we are interdependent for our viability and growth. As trees face internal and external uncertainties, their resilience is continuously tested. In this time of increasing climate change and recent wildfires, the preservation of nature, our forests and communities have a heightened meaning.
Marianne has exhibited in numerous local juried exhibits and at the Artist Project contemporary art fair in Toronto. In addition, her work has been shown in US based Create magazine, the Toronto Star and House & Home magazine.
Originally from Montréal, Marianne graduated McGill University with a Bachelor of Commerce. She now enjoys living and staying creative in Toronto.
*Instagram @m.sungstyle
**Represented by Art Interiors gallery and online by Ninth Editions.
***Email inquiries or to sign up to my art newsletter: mariannesung@gmail.com
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Favourite artist(s) right now
Matisse, Fairfield Porter, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Joan Mitchell, Emily Carr, David Milne, Frida Khalo, Ernesto Neto
Beverage of choice
Sparkling water
When I'm not making art, I'm (a) ...
Connecting with friends and taking nature walks with my mini Schnauzer Bernie
Favourite musical artist / band right now
NTO, IVY
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