Metaphor, Myth, & Politics:
Art from Native Printmakers Exhibition

“The process of creating is a spiritual experience for me,” Marx told California Today Magazine in October of 1974. “I sense a sacredness and beauty in Mother Earth and believe the greatest art is found in nature. Feathers, to me, are sacred – and flight and birds are a symbol of freedom.” She told the Palo Alto Times in 1976, “I don’t know where the ideas come from. They just appear without intellectualizing about them. When I’m really into my work, I feel like an instrument. The ideas are flowing through me but they don’t come from me.” In an interview with the Desert Sun, she put it another way – “I’m the vessel through which my work happens.” Marx moved from California to Taos, New Mexico in 1985 and lived and worked in her studio there for almost 40 years.