IDA MARX: CITYSCAPES, LANDSCAPES & COMMISSIONED TOWNHOUSES
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125th Street
oil on canvas
11 x 14

Ida Marx was born and raised in New York City. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She also studied at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute, and privately with Eleanor Lockspeiser and Mary Anna Goetz.  As an illustrator and comic artist, Ida’s work has been published in many publications, including the New Yorker magazine.
 Ida currently focuses primarily on cityscapes in oil. She also works in Public Schools all over the city as a Teaching Artist.
Her work has been exhibited in Federal Hall on Wall Street, the Woodstock Artists Association, Kleinert Gallery, and Bank of America in  Woodstock, NY, the Newburgh Historical Society, Newburgh, NY, and the Emily Hoysradt Gallery, Kingston, NY,

Focusing primarily on Harlem, where my mother’s family settled as immigrants, I am documenting cityscapes that are part of the unique aesthetic of New York City. Painting the historical urban landscape is a form of preservation.
I use the subject matter of my work to convey emotion and express a point of view. Dynamic compositions are everywhere, and it's my job to capture and share them.

In my paintings I experiment with composition, texture, color form and space. I work to express mood – sometimes joy, sometimes melancholy, often quiet.

I’m fascinated with the diversity of building types, size, colors and textures and how they all work together creating a visual symphony.

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For information you may contact
Ida Marx at:  
phone: 646-315-5151