My work harnesses the frenetic energy I feel all around, capturing the pulse of fleeting moments. I paint with a sense of urgency, each mark an expression of hope, or even desperation to derive as much pleasure as possible from the beauty in each layered moment --  including the mundane. Representing an inherent longing for more, my paintings reveal a compulsion to preserve what will be missed or forgotten.

—Marlisa Dunn

Marlisa Dunn’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, art centers, and festivals throughout the US. In addition, in 2023-24 eight works were featured in the exhibition “Oil and Water, They do Mix,” sponsored by the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) Temporary Art Program. 

Dunn recently received the Merit Prize Award in the 7th Color International Juried Art Competition sponsored by Tera Varna Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles.

Other exhibition venues include the Ashtabula Arts Center in Ashtabula; the Wasmer Gallery in Pepper Pike, Bryn Du Mansion in Granville; the Village of Gates Mills, the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center in Cuyahoga Falls; Legacy Village in Beachwood; the Still Point Gallery and the Cain Park Arts Festival in Cleveland Heights; and the online exhibition 7th Annual Black and White Exhibition sponsored by Fusion Art.

Throughout April Dunn is featured in the Tera Varna 7th COLOR International Juried Art Competition. Beginning April 20, 2024 Dunn will also participate in a three-month group exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Art in Springfield, Ohio. April 21-May 5 she will have two works in the 53rd Gates Mills Art Show. May through June she is featured in the SWA 2024 Small Works National Competition in Mena, Arkansas, and April 21 through June 1, she is featured in the Berkeley Arts Council14th Annual Art & Earth Juried Art Exhibit in Martinsburg, West Virginia.