Marilyn Massad Art Bio

A lifelong painter with roots in Worcester and Provincetown, MA, Marilyn Massad studied at the Worcester Art Museum, the Provincetown Art Association Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Castle Hill. With Provincetown as her touchstone, her travels and inspiration have taken her to Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and road tripping around the United States.

World travels inspire this artist’s colors and shapes, which bloom as imagined externalized landscapes of emotional victories, lovers, hopes, and dreams. Vibrant to muted, the hues span the array of the visible spectrum of light and emotion, and the playful use of scale offers the occasional riddle—is that a shadow or a pathway or a garden gate? Marilyn’s art is a gentle, moving reminder that the most important and eternal garden one can cultivate is within.

In her words, “Worcester gave me grit, Provincetown, style. My happiness, my satisfaction and my fulfillment are up to me. It’s a blessing to be able to paint and to shift my vision into something to aspire to.”         

From finger painting to macramé to textile art, watercolor, pastels, oils, and acrylic, her artwork mirrors as many roads, twists, and turns as she has taken.

She is currently working with acrylic and oil on canvas.