Maryanne Buschini
Fine Artist
Maryanne Buschini has felt like an artist since she picked up a pencil. She made paper dolls and drew pictures with her mother, and later took art classes and worked on theater sets in high school. Although she started college as a nursing major, she was able to switch back to her love of drawing and painting to study art. She grew up in Valhalla NY, and married her high school sweetheart, John.
While he served in the US Army, Maryanne was able to study art at colleges near his assignments, including the University of Oklahoma, and graduated with a BFA from Kansas State University.
Her husband was stationed in Philadelphia and they settled in the Philadelphia area and started a family. She continued art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation, and completed a masters degree in art at the University of the Arts. She worked as a graphic designer for Philadelphia area corporations and nonprofits, and taught art and design in high schools and area colleges, and kept at her painting practice during this time, while also raising their 2 sons.
Researching old black and white photos, Maryanne interprets these images to create narratives of celebration, hard work, family and love.
Snapshots are a catalyst for painting and storytelling. A camera can be used to capture a moment that would have been lost or misunderstood. I use paint to create a conversation and interpret. Personal family photos and those the strike me in storytelling or emotion are often a starting point --I find unexpected results. The narrative in the paintings may be very apparent, create discovery, or uncover secrets for artist and viewer.
Maryanne maintains her art studio in Malvern PA. Her painting has been featured in the Philadelphia and New York area galleries and has been included and received awards in numerous juried shows, including the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia TriState Artists Equity, Art of the State, as well as a solo show in 2019.
Selected Awards
Collection: Labor, Stone, Water, - Solo Show Fireside Gallery, Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon PA 2019
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts CE Juried Show, Anne Bryan Gallery, Hamilton Building - Honorable Mention Award 2019
BRICK BY BRICK, LGBTQIA+ Stonewall at 50 - Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks, Philadelphia PA 13th St/Gayborhood Award 2019
Philadelphia TriState Artists Equity 2019 70th anniversary Juried Members Show - Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading PA
First place and Solo Show Award
Paint the Town Phoenixville, Invitational Plein Air, (2 awards) Teresa Haag Studio/Gallery 2018
Philadelphia TriState Artists Equity 2018 Spring Members Juried Show – Bull Center, West Chester University honorable mention
Artists Tri-State Equity Fall 2015 Members Show, Community Arts Center, Wallingford PA First Place Award
Faces of the Fallen, (2 portraits of soldiers), Arlington VA
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Gallery 1310, Juried Alumni Show 2001, Philadelphia PA Best of Show-Alumni Award of Excellence Prize
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Rostered Artist – Artists in Education
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Art of the State: ’98, (two works selected) Harrisburg PA.