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Biography

Marion Wagschal is a painter of subjects whose environments connote the contemporary, often the domestic and banal, but carry through them weight of history, their mortality, the things they've seen and been subject to. Wagschal moved from an early-career focus on biblical figures to portraits of friends, family, and lovers. These subjects are not only resistant to idealized or cosmetic treatments; on close inspection, they bear the markings of the Holocaust, AIDS, senility, enfeeblement. But her portraits are generous and full of empathy, even humour. Wagschal paints in perfect accordance with her anemic or ghostly subjects, her brushwork and palette patchy, sun-bleached - like memory, sharp in places but hazy allover.
Marion Wagschal arrived in Canada in 1951 from Port of Spain, Trinidad. She completed her education at Concordia University (Montréal), where she then taught for 37 years. Wagschal has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is an RCA member, and represented in numerous private and public collections, such as the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée des beaux-arts (Montréal), and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, ON). She is represented by Battat Contemporary.