Education
2005 B.F.A., University of Kansas
Experience
2005-present Independent Artist, Topeka & Lawrence, KS
Skills/Strengths
-Extensive screen printing/printmaking knowledge, education, and experience
-Abilities to creatively construction, build, and spatially envision
-Process-driven, meticulous conceptualization of ideas
-Creative writing/storytelling skills and experience
-Ability to visualize 2D/3D concepts
-Unwavering dedication to the creative process
-14 years of maintaining an independently-owned art business
-Relentless attention to detail, craftsmanship, composition, presentation
-Photoshop skills for printmaking process and design
-Extensive problem solving skills
-Understanding of social media and marketing
-Patience, endurance, infinite passion to create
-Expansive capacity to imagine
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Time-Shift Paradox, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2015
Exploring the Heartland, The Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs, Matfield Green, KS
2014
Skyward Shifts, Phoenix Gallery, Lawrence, KS
In the Middle of Everywhere, Carriage Factory Art Gallery, Newton, KS
Social Landscapes, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Waste Not Mystics, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2013
Consumed, traveling exhibition with Juniper Tangpuz, Alice C. Sabitini Gallery, Topeka, KS; Deines Cultural Center, Russell, KS; Sternberg Natural History Museum, Hays, KS
2011
City Towers and Lowlands Beyond, Southwind Gallery, Topeka, KS
2010
Dreamland… Homeland: New Mixed Media Works, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Collaborative Work by Lisa Grossman & Justin Marable, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
2009
Ageless Wonder, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
Present Circumstance, Carnegie Arts Center, Stacks Gallery, Leavenworth, KS
Timeworn Memories, Atchison Art Association, Muchnic Gallery, Atchison, KS
2008
In a Sea of Change, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
The Places In Between, Carter Art Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Justin Marable and Tony Westlund, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Hope on the Horizon, 5.4.7. Arts Center, Greensburg, KS
2007
Small Town Memories, Big City Dreams, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Realities of a Region, Apex Art Space, Kansas City, MO
These Midwestern Times, Hurst Gallery @ The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Justin Marable: Serigraphy; Yost Gallery, Highland Community College, Highland, KS
2006/2005
Golden Maps : Roadside Treasure; Olive Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Rural Recollections; Olive Gallery . Lawrence , KS
Group Exhibitions
2018
2018 Benefit Art Auction Exhibition: Featured Artist, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2016
Heating Up: Artists respond to Climate Change show, Lawrence Percolator, Lawrence, KS
2014
30th Annual 5-State Photography Exhibition, Hays Arts Center, Hays, KS
2013
Wonder Fair Print Invitational, Lawrence, KS
2011
American Landscape, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010
The Printed Image 3: 3rd Biennial Graphics Juried Exhibition, Alice C. Sabitini Gallery, Topeka, KS
Hott Sheets, Wonderfair Art Gallery, Lawrence, KS
New Show: New Year, New Decade, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Contemporary Realism, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2009
Kansas Masters Invitational, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
I Think We Are Making Progress, Wonder Fair Art Gallery, Lawrence, KS.
2008
The Printed Image 2: 2nd Biennial Graphics Juried Exhibition, Alice C. Sabitini Gallery, Topeka, KS
Arts Council Annual Juried Exhibition, CityArts, Wichita, KS
Clouds Are Easy to Love, Lawrence Percolator, Lawrence, KS
Thresholds, 6 Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2007
The Neighborhood Show, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2006
Dear Old Kansas, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Pleasures: Prints and Teapots by Kansas Artists, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
Lawrence-Own-Your-Own Juried Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2005
Red Balloon To Do, Olive Gallery . Lawrence , KS
Art Fairs/Festivals
2015-2017
Madison Art Fair on the Square 2016/17, Madison, WI
Crested Butte Arts Festival 2017, Crested Butte, CO
Brookside Art Annual 2015/17, Kansas City, MO
Cherry Creek Arts Festival 2016/17, Denver, CO
Des Moines Arts Festival 2015/17, Des Moines, IA
Lawrence Print Fair 2015/17, Lawrence, KS
2015-2011
Annual Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, KS
Awards/Achievements
2018
Featured Artist, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s 60th Annual Art on the Square, Madison, WI
Featured Artist, Lawrence Arts Center’s Benefit Art Auction, Lawrence, KS
2017
Best in 2D Media, Art in the Park, Columbia, MO
2016
Artist INC Fellow, selective program and partnership between Lawrence Arts Center, KCIC and MAAA
2014/15/16
Purchase Award, Smoky Hill River Festival’s Community Art Collection, Salina, KS
2011
Greater Topeka’s “20 Under 40” Honoree, Jayhawk Area Council, Topeka, KS
ARTY Award, Outstanding Emerging Artist, ArtsConnect, Topeka, KS
Advocacy Through Art Award, YWCA, Topeka, KS
2009
Emerging Artist Award, Kansas Arts Commission, Topeka, KS
2007
Individual Artist Mini-Fellowship, Kansas Arts Commission, Topeka, KS
Artist Presentations
2018
Insight Art Talk for Time-Shift Paradox, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2017
Insight Art Talk for 2017 Benefit Art Auction, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2016
PAS Class Presentation, University of Kansas Art Department, Lawrence, KS
2011
Artist-in-Residency, Marshall County Artist Cooperative, Artist Talk and Screen Printing Demo, Marysville, KS
Artist/Author Talk, Topeka and Shawnee Public Library, Topeka, KS
2009
Artist Talk & Screen Printing Demonstration, Washburn Rural High School, Topeka, KS
2008
Artist Talk, Carter Art Center, Penn Valley Metropolitan Community College, Kansas City, MO
Artist Talk, 547 Arts Center, Greensburg, KS
Recent Community/Grant Projects
2015-16
Microburst, funded through the Rocket Grants program in collaboration with Leah Sewell & Kansas artists
Kansas People’s History Project, funded by the KCAIC and the MAAA Innovations program in collaboration with the Watkins History Museum, Dave Lowenstein, & Kansas artists
2014-15
Meadows Mural Project, funded by Artsconnect & Meadows Elementary, Topeka, KS
2010-2012
Rethink Topeka, grassroots art-centric community-building project; this three-year project was self-funded and established through the massive organization of a regional annual art walk/exhibition
Selected Publications
2017
No Depression Magazine, Heartland, art/illustrations featured, Spring 2017
2016
My Wildlife Magazine, Vol. 5 No. 2, The Art Issue: Featured Artist 2018, pgs. 4-5, 63-71
2013
John, by Matthew Porubsky, images by Justin Marable, published by Red Bird Chapbooks
The Journal, pgs. 1, 88-89, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Kansas Leadership Center publication
2012
Kansas Alumni Magazine, Class Notes: Profile: Artist’s work embodies Kansas, pg. 55
Sympathetic Magic, by Amy Fluery, cover artwork, published by Southern Illinois University Press
The Greening of Oz, by Robert Fraga, cover artwork, published by Wasteland Press
2011
TK Magazine, Topeka’s Top 20 Professionals Under 40, cover story and photo, pg. 53
Ha Ha Tonka album artwork for Death of a Decade, released by Bloodshot Records
Ink Magazine, Topeka and Its Pioneers of Cool, cover story and photos, pgs. 20 – 27
2010
Noco, children’s book, written, illustrated, and published by Justin Marable
2008
Topeka Magazine, Paternal Printmaker, article & cover artwork, Winter Issue
Review Magazine, Transformation Through Color, October Issue, Kansas City, MO
Architecture Boston, Unnatural Acts: Technology and the American Landscape, pgs. 72-76
Selected Articles/Press
2018
Lawrence Journal World, Remaking History, A&E Sunday featured article by Nick Krug
Conversations : Justin Marable, Time-Shift Paradox, Podcast with Dan Skinner, Kansas Public Radio
Daily Kansan, In time-traveling art display, alumnus takes on need for change, article by Jayme Link
Hiawatha World, Hiawatha High School Students experience art first hand, article by Martina Bourland
KC Live!, Meet the Artist, Interview on KSHB-TV 41, Kansas City, MO
Topeka Capital-Journal, Artist’s massive installation transports viewers, article by Savanna Maue
A.D.D. Podcast, inteview with Jason Barr about Time-Shift Paradox
2016
Topeka Capital-Journal, Artists seek to spark dialogue exploring climate change, article by Samantha Foster
2012
Sunflower Journeys, KTWU Public Television
2011
Topeka & Shawnee County Library website, Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Author
2010
Lawrence Journal World, Little Book on the Prairie, article by Terry Rombeck
Review, Book of Life: Justin Marable, article by Steve Brisendine
Topeka Capital-Journal, Super Saturday to ReThink Topeka, article by Steve Fry
2008
The Oklahoman, Rural decay, urban sprawl, art review, pg.4D, Oklahoma City, OK
Lawrence.com, Cloud Factory: Local Artists Funnel Magic from the Sky, magazine/website cover
2007
Lawrence Journal World, The Faraway Nearby, Exhibit Review
2006
Lawrence.com, A Map Is a Picture, Interview and Blog
2005
Lawrence Journal World, Holding onto Kansas, Interview and Exhibit Review
Gallery Representation
Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Reuben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, KS
Private and Public Collections
Highland Community College, Highland, KS
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas
Executive Residences, Inc., 2320 S. Kansas Ave., Topeka, KS
Sabatini Architects, Inc., 730 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS
Garvey Arts Center, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS
Cloud County Community College, Concordia, KS
Topeka Periodontics, PA, 634 SW Mulvane, Suite 306, Topeka, KS
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
Smoky Hill River Festival Community Collection, Salina, KS
Kansas Leadership Center, Wichita, KS
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