156 Sea Lane, Key West, FL 33040
305-295-0700 fax 305-295-0414
e-mail: mapweaver@aol.com
The work of Marilyn Arnold Palley, a Fibre Artist for over 30 years, is difficult to categorize. Her large sculptural pieces have an essentially hard, male architectural quality while her Art To Wear is soft, flowing and feminine.
She combines loom work of highest technical excellence with an unerring eye to the blending of texture, shade and tint that is at the heart of loomed material. On first seeing her work, the visual impact is so strong that her subtlties of construction and control of material are submerged until careful study reveals that, indeed, "the devil is in the details."
Ms. Arnold Palley is a graduate of Philadelphia College of Textiles & Sciences, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with Jack Lenore Larsen as well as teaching and studying in Denmark and Japan.
1973 | Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Bachelor of Science |
1975 | Det Danske Selskab, Denmark, with Kirsten Denholm, Certification |
1976 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, with Jack Lenor Larsen |
1974-2004 Self-employed Fibre Artist designing and creating functional and decorative fibre art pieces for commercial, institutional, and private spaces. These include wall hangings, soft sculpture, art furniture and wearable art.
1977 | Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science |
1983 | Philadelphia College of Art |
1983 | Kyoto University of Industrial Arts and Textiles, Japan |
1984 | New Jersey State Council of the Arts | 1989 | Odessa Artists Union, USSR |
1991-93 | Bucharest Creative Workshop, Romania |
1970-73 | Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science |
1973 | Philadelphia Art Alliance |
1973-78 | National Council of Jewish Women, NJ |
1974 | Philadelphia Civic Center |
1974-85 | Reese Palley Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ |
1974-75 | Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1975 | Wallnuts Gallery (now Sande Webster), Philadelphia, PA |
1976 | Nan Duskin, Philadelphia, PA |
1980 | Byerly's Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
1982-86 | Roche Bobois, Philadelphia, PA |
1984-85 | Roche Bobois, Seattle,WA; Washington, DC; Boston, MA |
1984-85 | Maurice Villency, New York, NY |
1989 | Kling Partnership, Philadelphia, PA |
1998-99 | Earth Spirits, Palm Desert,CA |
1985-2003 | Studio Salons- Key West, FL and Philadelphia, PA |
1994-2003 | Arlen Design, George Nakashima House, Princeton, NJ |
1996-2000 | From The Ruins, Key West, FL |
1998-2000 | Rancho de San Juan, Santa Fe (Espanola), NM |
1999 | Florida Keys Community College (Key West) |
1999-2004 | Palley Registry of Danish Furniture 1900-2000© [Work in Progress] |
2003 | Victoria Lesser Design, Key West, FL |
1999-2009 | Palley Registry of Danish Furniture 1900-2000© |
2005 | Helen Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL |
2005 | Greene and Greene Gallery, Lambertville, NJ |
2005-06 | Turning Point Gallery, Media, PA |
2005-06 | The Laughing Dog Gallery, Vero Beach, FL |
2005-06 | Mariposa Designs, Sarasota, FL |
2005-08 | Kent Gallery, Key West, FL |
2005-08 | Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia |
2005-08 | Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland |
2006-09 | Dreamweaver's Collection, Martha's Vineyard, MA, |
2007 | Bravura Gallery, Southhampton, NY |
2007 | Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2007-09 | Gallery Christa, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2007-08 | Bellagio Gallery, Asheville, NC |
2007-09 | Elements of Style, Atlanta, GA |
2007-09 | Max Ditting AG, Zurich, Switzerland |
2008 | Toucano, Bern, Switzerland | 2008 | Joan Shepp, Philadelphia |
2008-09 | Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL |
2009 | Helen Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL |
2009 | Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA |
2007-09 | Danish Museum of Art & Design (Permanent Collection), |