JSM- About Jackee

Jacqueline Marks – biography

Jacqueline Marks recently won the First Place Award for her paper clay sculpture Book of Flight, in the Small Treasures Exhibitions at the Palos Verdes Art Center. Marks has won a number of awards for both two and three dimensional work, including an award presented by the American Ceramics Society.

Her semi-abstract figurative work has been shown in juried exhibitions and invitational exhibits at the Los Angeles County Fair, the Torrance Art Center Gallery, Whittier Art Association Gallery, South Bay Jewish Artists Council, Hermosa Beach Civic Auditorium, Palos Verdes Art Center, The Orange County Museum of Art and other venues.

Marks has done commissions for the Edna Reis award, Reiss-Davis Clinic; the Emma Stern Award, Jewish Centers Associates; and a P.V.A.C. Award for the Norris Foundation. Her work is in many private collections.

Of late, Marks’ artwork has focused on the subject of birds, especially crows and ravens. Their ability to survive in a hostile human environment, their playfulness and their appeal as a source of folk tales and their mystical qualities make them appealing to her.

My Grandmother (Jackee)
by Aaron Brandt

My Grandmother is a great and skillful artist. She makes sculpture out of wood, clay, wire almost anything you can think of! She draw’s and makes puppets too but her main passion is her sculptures. She can make her art big or small detailed or plain. My family and I have many of her sketches and sculptures hanging and sitting in our house, they are very nice. When my siblings and I were younger she would always bring art projects for us to work on.

My Grandmother is a very nice lady. She lives by the beach and likes to hang out on the beach in the summer. She likes to boogie-board on the beautiful waves when it’s warm outside. My Grandmother is also a very good cook she likes to use the grill a lot. In her home, she has a great view of the ocean from the big windows in her living room.

The main thing that my Grandmother taught me was how to create different types of sculptures, one is a sculpture made out of wire, tape, and paint, I have learned that you can make lots of different things you just have to be creative which is another thing that she taught me, to be very creative in whatever I do.

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