Layers of history and time are a constant in the work of Marjorie Guyon. One of the hallmarks of Guyon’s work is that the image at once emerges from, yet disappears into what appears to be an ancient surface. Yet, she also seems to be lighting the path of time. It may well be the dynamic between the two impulses that gives her haunting images their appeal. To build her compositions, she works in collage and applies marble dust and pigment - earth from all over the world to create an archeology of the soul. Her work is at once both contemporary and ancient - a blend of mythology and graffiti.

Guyon was never formally trained in fine arts. Her work is a fusion of the humanities, weaving a web with threads from history, languages, poetry, philosophy, and art. Always working in collage draws on her strength as a synthesizer of ideas.

A native New Yorker, she is a “citizen of the world.” Her art often weaves text from and images together in a symbiotic manner. The balance of these two, often competing, artistic outputs of the written word and visual art acts as a metaphor for the way that she seeks to bring the divisors of humanity into harmony through art.

Guyon’s work is at once accessibly abstract, deeply spiritual and highly intellectual. It rewards both the casual observer and the contemplative art appreciator. And, truly, it is full of integrity. Her wizardry is in using art to transform the spirit of a place. It is in using “art as a path of how it might be possible to think and see.” Through a synthesis of image, narrative and history, her work gives us new eyes on our history and on each other, helping us envision not so much what is, but what can be.