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Palisadian-Post. Page 24. 12/05/02
Local Portraitist to Speak at Reception on December 14

Palisadian-Post. Page 15. 04/03/03
Café Vida Exhibits Local Landscapes by Alden Marin

Malibu Magazine. Vol 2 Issue 5. 08/03
Portrait of a Native Artist: Alden Marin and His Contemporary Local Landscapes

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Popeil's Favorite Artist: Mr. R. Popeil and Alden Marin talk art.

"Alden sends me his poetry and I receive it on my computer each morning - I look forward to it like an old friend. Sometimes funny, sometimes cranky - all the time true and brilliant."

- Actor Jeffrey Tambor

"At first glance the art of Alden Marin celebrates the vivid colors of a festive life. His style, a folk /impressionistic mix is deceptively complex in it simplicity. Each face subtly transmits a unique emotion or persona. It is art that shows best as a collection. For some unknown reason, the message gets stronger when viewed in a comparative light. It is not to say that each piece is not independently impressive only that my appreciation grows as I see more of his work. As an added bonus Alden delights us with his pithy titles. My favorite is, Two friends having a frank discussion about color. As you can tell, I like his work."

-Carl F.Cusato - president/CEO, Cusato & Company, Inc.

"French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas argues that the force of the face is always an ethical force before it is an ontological one. He is drawn back to the face--the demanding, transcendent, infinitely finite face--over and over in his thinking. This repetition, and the realization that founds it, is at work as well in the painting of Alden Marin. So often returning to the face, working out the meaning of the face, Marin explores the nature of an encounter with the Other, an embodied Other that more often than not is a manifestation of hope. With careful attention to color and space, Marin not so much constructs his subjects as allows them to appear on his canvas--a canvas which is, so often, a found-object, an article of trash or discard, itself an unwanted and overlooked Other. It is thus through both a process of reclamation and salvation that Marin founds his hope and works his alchemy, turning shape into gaze, line into Being. And as his deconstructed subjectivities--marginally identified, thumb-printed, and longing--stare through us like fragmented stained glass faces, we discover that they are ultimately staring with us, all of us tied together in a force that is always already an ethical force before it is an ontological one."

-Peter Steeves - critic/writer, Depaul University

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