on the studio floor photo by Lauren Kuehmeier @ladybug_lorn 2018
Marlowe Monfort Hermanovski
I graduated with a BFA with my focus on drawing. However, for the past 25 years, I have been creating and painting large scale custom murals on canvas for primarily commercial and corporate clients. Although they have all been hand painted artworks, they were not representative of the work I did personally.
The work I produced for myself during this time was often a reaction to what I was doing for my clients. Instead of painting people and scenery in a specific style or with recognizable content and motifs, my personal interests moved more into creating abstract ink works on paper and trying to represent people and ideas without the comfort of recognizable imagery. I am still intrigued by this “reactive” urge and method of working on paper but I’ve started to incorporate some of the calligraphic work I have spent so much time with while working on murals for P.F. Chang’s restaurants located all over the world.
As drawing was my first artistic focus and I have now painted for so long, when I think of doing drawings it is in paint. Combining the beauty of the calligraphic style of black lines and mark making into paintings, (either mixed with abstraction that hints at a recognizable image or layered onto hyper realistic scenes), is very interesting to me. Whether using layered tints of inks or paints, in both rich and subtle colors alongside black lines, patterns, and gold leaf, I am beginning to merge the various visual languages and ideas I’ve been keeping separate into individual pieces that contain all those things that I find intriguing or exciting.
Background information
Born: Oklahoma City, OK
Education:
1987-90: BFA Long Island University, Southampton Campus, New York
Experience:
2001-Present: Freelance artist, Scenic Painter
1992-Present: Co-owner and artist at Studio H Design in Dallas, TX. Custom artworks for corporations, restaurants, medical facilities, hospitality venues and residences
1987-92: Murals, Trompe l’Oeil – residential and commercial projects in, NYC / Southampton, NY and CT
Exhibitions:
2023 Big Rain Gallery, group show, Pawhuska OK
2022 DHV Artworks, Group show- Natural Forces2017 Uptown Vision Hermanovski Family show
2001 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, group show, Dallas, TX
2001 New Texas Talent Juried Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2001 Bi-Annual Juried Exhibition, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
1990 Mercer Fine Art, Southampton NY
Film/TV work:
The Chosen, TV show, Season 4, scenic painter 2023
Tulsa King, TV show, Producer-Taylor Sheriden, Scenic foreman 2022
Killers of The Flower Moon, Movie - Martin Scorsese, Scenic painter 2021
Last Summer, TV show, series pilot, scenic painter 2019
Isle of Dogs, movie - Wes Anderson 2017
Freelance Scenic:
Dallas Stage Scenery - Dallas TX- 2021 to present
C Scenic - Dallas TX - 2018 to present
Clients:
Karen Raley and Ted Galbraith, Dallas TX
Nostaliabrew Cafe, La Jolla, CA
Jane and Tim Fields, Albuquerque NM
Natasha Aslin, Los Angeles, CA
Gigi and Carl Allen, Dallas TX and Walker’s Cay- Bahamas
JAS Ranch, Trophy Room, Gregory Shamoun, Esq.
Hall Arts Hotel, Dallas Arts District - Dallas TX
PF Chang’s China Bistro – National and International locations, Dubai, Kuwait, Turkey, Mexico, Beirut, Qatar, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Philippines, Costa Rica, Panama, U.A.E., Bahrain, Columbia, Saudi Arabia
Preferred Imaging MRI Inc. – Dallas, TX
MV Transportation – Dallas, TX
St Alcuin Montessori School – Dallas, TX
Irving Bible Church – Irving, TX
Diagio LTD, United Distillers and Vintners, corporate offices in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Connecticut
Boston Market
Brinker International – restaurants – Macaroni Grill, Chili’s, Cozymel
Bailey, Banks and Biddle Jewelers – Dallas, TX
Potters House Church – TD Jakes Ministries – Dallas, TX
Edgewood Surgical Hospital – Edgewood, PA
Publications:
PaperCitymag.com - 07/25/2021
Through the Lens: Dallas Arts District (book)- Hall Group Images 2019
Dallas Morning news, Arts & Lifestyle section, April 6, 2018
Cowboys and Indians Magazine – July 2000
Design and Display Ideas – October 1999
Dallas Morning News – October 1999
Martha Stewart’s – This New Old House 1991
New York Times, Home Section – May 1990
Speaking Engagements:
Networking Executive Women in Hospitality – The role of art in hospitality design