Book Launch Event: "Marley Kaul: Paintings"

Name: Book Launch Event: "Marley Kaul: Paintings"
Start: 2025-09-25T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-25T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 261 Centennial Dr, Grand Forks, ND, United States, North Dakota 58202

Schedule

Thu Sep 25 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

261 Centennial Dr, Grand Forks, ND, United States, North Dakota 58202 | Grand Forks, ND

Join us to celebrate the newly published book on the life and art of Marley Kaul. Marley was a long-time friend and supporter of the Museum, and his artwork is included in the Museum’s permanent collection. He was also a regular contributor to the Museum’s Autumn Art Auction and Benefit Dinners.
• A brief presentation will be given by Marley’s family about the collective and collaborative process of finishing what he started.
The event is free and open to the public. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Parking is available, free of charge, in front of and adjacent to the Museum.
Marley Kaul may be one of the most devoted master painters you have not yet heard of. Or he may be an artist and a teacher-philosopher you have admired and learned from during his long life as a painter. This book serves as his final exhibition. A dazzling celebration of color and artistic expression, the retrospective presents more than 300 images of paintings created from 1961, before Kaul became an art professor, to 2021, the year he died. Kaul’s body of work includes paintings rendered in acrylic, casein, oil, gouache, watercolor, and egg tempera, done on canvas, paper, and wood panels. His wife, art curator and weaver Sandra Staehle Kaul; son Stephen Kaul; and daughter, Allison Kaul DeLeone, organized this collection of artworks and writings.
The book introduces Marley Kaul by sketching his biography and his painting process. Artist Lou Ferreri offers his view of Kaul’s process, observed in the days when they shared a studio at the University of Oregon. From there, the book unfoldes chronologically–from mid-20th century to early 21st century–with each chapter showing paintings from particular periods. Throughout the arc of his artistic life, Kaul wrote about his paintings and his craft. Each chapter includes a number of those insights, instructions, and musings.
Marley Kaul, Paintings is a synthesis of all that he accomplished as an artist.