Painter, Sculptress, Muralist.

OBJECTIVE
Never turn off my imagination.
Always achieve excellence in my art work.

EDUCATION
• College Degree in Graphic Design, Instituto de Diseño Neumann, Caracas, Venezuela 1978-1982
• Photography Seminar, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1986
• Bronze Sculpture Apprenticeship at Sculptor Elias Toro’s Studio,
Caicaguana, Venezuela. 1987
• Live model sketching sessions at Sculptress Chiche Scaglia-Davies in
Jacksonville, Fl, USA. 1993-1995
• Photoshop Seminar, Ft Laudrdale, Fl, 1997
• Internet Seminar, MAc Expo San Francisco, 1998
• Stone Sculpture Apprenticeship at Thomas Glover W., workshop, St. Augustine, FL , USA. 1996-2000
• Tattoo Apprenticeship at Ms. Deborah’s Fountain of Youth Tattoo
and Body Piercing Studio, St. Augustine, FL , USA. 2006

EXPERIENCE
- Participation in a Tableau Vivant of Rafael Sanzio’s painting School of Athens in the neoclassical spaces of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
- Comission, “Avila Mountain” large painting for Asociación Cultural Humboldt (Goethe Institute Caracas, Venezuela)
- Comission , “Acid Rain” A mural made of fabricated steel and kiln modified glass for the conference room of New Yorks’ Bankers Trust Office in Caracas.
- Commission. Large paintings and silkcreens for Lincoln Suites Hotel,
Caracas, Venezuela.
- Commission. Bronze sculpture, lifesize for private collector.
- Collaborative work, watercolors inspired by architecht Dirk Bornhorst’s zen and mineral crystal-like architectural structures.
- Artist in Residencefor, 2 years. Duval County Schools.
- Mural Design and elaboration. Ballet building Downtown Jacksonville with the “CANVAS” project, sponsored by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
-“Ethnic Door Murals”. St. Jose Elementary classrooms outside doors.
sponsored by Prudential.
- Grand Ritz Renovation in Jacksonville, Fl., trash cans with colorful designs portraying St. Augustine’s Lincolnville musicians.
- Marble Horse Heads, and Fiber glass and Steel “Española con Paraguas” sculpture for fountain. The Mansion Hotel, Savannah, GA.
- Comission. Painting of Downtown Orlando for the Grand Bohemian Hotel, Orlando, Florida.
- Comission: oil portrait of Chief Osceola for Celebration Hotel in Orlando, Fl.
- Comission. “Españolas” monumental sculpture for St. Augustine’s Sculptural
Garden, FLorida
- Commission. “Swimming Fire Horses” . Steatite. Monumental sculpture for St. Augustine’s Sculptural Garden, FLorida
- Comissions: iron work design for handrails. 82 ‘ butterfly mosaic mural. University of Florida Museum of Natural History’s Butterfly Rainforest.
- Commission. Monumental Sculpture “Woman of the Sun”, Atlantic Elementary School, Jacksonville, FL.
- Commission. Gaint Pillow Shaped Seat. Reinforced tinted concrete. For reproduction in different colors for installation in public places. Private collector.

AWARDS
- “Honorary mention” Beaches Art Guild show at Club Latino,
by juror and UNF art professor Paul Ladnier.
- “Pick of the Litter” award at St. Augustine Art Association exhibit juried
by artist Anne Barnas.
- “Most Advanced Artist of Show” by Henry Flood Jr. director of JAMOCA, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art.
- “Black & White Exhibit” St. Augustine Art Association,
First Union Bank Award.
- “Cutting Edge Exhibit” St. Augustine Art Association, Honorary mention Award.
- “Honorary Mention” St. Augustine Art Association.
- “Center for Emerging Artists” Award by Junior Ambrosino,
Coral Gables, Florida.
- Awarded inclusion in “Encyclopedia of Living Artists” for its 1999 edition.
- Best of Show, Tactile Art Show, St. Augustine Art Association.

PUBLICATIONS
- 1986 -Architektur & Wohnen (March 1986) Hamburg, Germany.
- 1991- “Ciencia y Tao” By Dirk Bornhorst
- 1992 -FOLIO WEEKLY (Dec. 6 1992).Art by Ted Weeks. Jacksonville, FL.
- 1993 -FOLIO WEEKLY (March 2,1993) commissioned her a portrait
of Amelia Earhart for the Cover of the issue dedicated
to women's historic month
- 1994-“Del Modernismo a lo Transpersonal”,
Fundación Ecologia y Arquitectura,Caracas Venezuela.
By Omar Seijas About Dirk Bornhorst, Architect.
- 1999-Encyclopedia for Living Artists - by Artists Network.
- 2001-Art News magazine, DOCS Art Gallery exhibit, New Orleans, LA.
- 2000 -Compass Magazine, Cover and center page article , St. Augustine Record. Article abouyt the St. Augustine Sculpture Garden Project.
- 2003-Water’s Edge. Article about the participation in sculpture
garden project for St. Augustine’s
- 2004-The St. Augustine Record,(Florida) newspaper front page article.
sculptural garden project. for St. Augustine.
- 2004-Interview for FOLIO Weekly, Jacksonville FL.(Sculpture
“Woman of the Sun” at Atlantic Elementary School article)
- 2005- Sculpture “Españolas” on the Cover of The Compass Magazine, St.Augustine Record.
- 2005. Article about Sculpture Show in St. Augustine, (original show cancelled in New Orleans’ D.O.C.S. Art Gallery, due to huracan Katrina).
-2007. Old City Gazette. Article about commisioned paitings showing one of 5 historic female figures for the Casa Monica Hotel: Writer Abbie brooks.
-2008. Old City Gazette. Article about commisioned paitings showing one of 5 historic female figures for the Casa Monica Hotel: Midwife Mary Evan.

LECTURES - TEACHING
- 1984 "Expression Techniques", “Illustration Techniques” and “Analytic Drawing” Instituto de Diseño Neumann, Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1984 “Art Techniques” in the Jose Maria Vargas University. Caracas,
Venezuela.
- 1986 "Introduction to Graphic Design"Jose Maria Vargas University,
Caracas, Venezuela
- 1990 “Illustration Techniques” Advertising School of Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1991 “Color Theory “ in the Instituto de Diseño Neumann,
Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1993 "Watercolor Techniques" at Marianne Lerbs' Studio,
in St. Augustine, FL., USA.
- 1993 "Drawing techniques" at Marianne Lerbs' Studio, St. Augustine, FL.
- 1994 "Art Instruction for Children" at the Art Association
of St.Augustine, FL.
- 1994 "Drawing and Composition", Art Instructor in Flagler College,
St. Augustine, FL.
- 1995 "Painting, beginners and advanced" and "Drawing and Composition"
in Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL.
- 1995-1997 “Artist in Residence” for Duval County Public Middle and
High Schools. Jacksonville, FL.
- 1997-1998 “CANVAS” project, sponsored by the Cultural Council of
Greater Jacksonville & Duval County School Right track program:
Kids at Risk. Artist and instructor for the mural in Forsyth Ave. , the Ballet Building.
- 1998 -“Art Banner Project” with kids from the Juvenile Drug Court Rehabilitation Program. Jacksonville, FL.
- 1998 -“Ethnic Mural Doors”. St. Jose Elementary classrooms. With Duval County Students, sponsored by Prudential. Jacksonville, FL.
- 1999 -“Artist in the Classroom” with the Cultural Council, for St. Johns and Duval County Schools. Sculpture Project. Jacksonville, FL.
1999 -“Gold Leaf Techniques” seminar at Barnes and Noble,
St. Augustine, FL.
- 2001 -“Sculpture Lessons” at Sculptural Stone Works, St. Augustine FL.
- 2004 -“Sculpture Residence” (Woman of the Sun) in Atlantic Elementary School in Jacksonville, FL.


EXHIBITION HISTORY:
1982 • Gallery of the Instituto de Diseño de La Fundación Neumann Caracas, Venezuela.
1985 • Art Gallery at Club Camurí Grande, Naiguatá, Dpto. Vargas, Venezuela.
1983 • Juried show “Salon Municipal Manuel Cabre” in Caracas, Venezuela.
1984 • Juried show “VII Salon de Aragua” in Carabobo State, Venezuela.
1985 • Juried show “Bienal Salon de Architectura” at
the "Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas", Venezuela.
Marianne participated in the project of Arch. Dirk Bonhorst,
with abstract watercolors inspired in his designs.
1986 • Exhibition called “Tensions” in the Felix Art Gallery in Caracas,Venezuela.
• Show called “Caracas Colgante”, in the art gallery of “Club Camurí Grande”.
1987 • Exhibition called “Caracas Contemporanea” in the Vedoblevé Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
1988 • Show in “Club Camurí Grande” called “Painting - Woven”.
Paintings-tapestries.
• Solo show “Caracas Urbana” in the Felix Art Gallery
in Caracas, Venezuela.
• Group show “New Expressions in Landscape” in the gallery of the
telephone company of Caracas , CANTV.
• Traveling museum of The Venezuelan Army.
• “Biennial Visual Arts Salon Alejandro Otero”. Caracas , Venezuela.
1991 • Art X 91 Caracas-Miami, Mindstructure Gallery
in Coconut Grove, Miami, FL.
1992 • Marianne Lerbs Studio, Contemporary Art gallery
opens in St. Augustine, FL, including Latin American Artists’ art work.
1993 • Woman’s Show at the Beaches Art Guild of Jacksonville.
• Works on display at Waterwheel art gallery in Fernandina Island, FL.
• The members show of the Beaches Art Guild in “Cafe At The Square”, Jacksonville, FL.
• The Art exhibit during the Coalition for the Visual Arts Award Ceremony
in WJCT Channel 7, Jacksonville, FL.
• “Latin American Point of View”, sponsored by Merril Lynch, Jacksonville,
• "Explorations in Women's Art, sponsored by the Women's Center in UNF,
Jacksonville, FL.
• Juried Show at the Club Latino, juried by artist and
UNF professor Paul Ladnier.
The painting called “Rhythm” got an honorary mention. Jacksonville, FL.
• Juried Show "Nudes" at the Daytona Art League, Daytona, FL.
1994 • Juried exhibit "Florida Art Show" at the St. Augustine Art Association.
The painting “Lyon of the Bridge” received an award by juror Anne Barnas.
St. Augustine, FL.
• Juried Show “The Cutting Edge Exhibit” at the
St. Augustine Art Association.
• “Five Winning Award Artists” in Florida Community College at
Jacksonville,(FCCJ) Downtown Campus Gallery, Jacksonville, FL.
• “A Tribute to Women” in Florida Community College (FCCJ) at Jacksonville, Downtown Campus Gallery, Jacksonville, FL.
• “Multicultural Americana II” in Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Downtown Campus Gallery, Jacksonville, FL.
• “Female Encounter” co-sponsored by Casa Italiana in celebration
of Women’s History month.Jacksonville, FL.
• "Figuratively Speaking" at the Daytona Art League, Daytona, FL.
• "Molto Vivace" at Casa Italiana Art Gallery, .Jacksonville, FL.
• "Allegro con Brio" at Casa Italiana Art Gallery, .Jacksonville, FL.
1994 • "Jazz Images" at Patrick Schwaitze's Restaurant: "Bruzzi",
Waterways Mall, North Miami, FL.
• Works on display at Sher Galleries in Miami, Florida.
1995 • Carrera Gallery at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.
• "A Tribute to Women" in Florida Community College at Jacksonville,
Downtown Campus Gallery, Jacksonville, FL.
• “Art in the Atrium” First Union Building Downtown Jacksonville FL.
• Artists for Education” at the St. Augustine Art Association, FL.
1997 • Art Contest sponsored by Times Union Newspaper in Jacksonville FL.
• Group exhibit at Pedestrian art gallery in Jacksonville, FL.
The painting “Timeless” was sold at opening night.
1998 • “Cutting Edge Show” Art Association of St. Augustine’s, awarded
the Most advance Artist of Show, by the Director of JAMOCA,
Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Guilty Pictures, a group show, an erotic art exhibit at the
Sculptural Stone & Wood works Art Gallery in St. Augustine, FL.
• Works on display at Sculptural Stone and Wood works Art Gallery 1998
• Guilty Pictures, a group show, an erotic art exhibit at the Sculptural
Stone & Wood works Art Gallery in St. Augustine, FL
1999 • Awarded the First Union Prize in the Black & White Show
at the Art Association of St. Augustine.
• Guilty Pictures II, a group show, an erotic art exhibit at the
Sculptural Stone & Wood works Art Gallery in St. Augustine, FL.
• Elected to be part of an exhibit organized by the Center for
Emerging Artists,juried by Junior Ambrosino, Miami Florida.
• Works on display at Kennedy Galleries in Miami,
and the Sculptural Stone and Wood works Art Gallery
in St. Augustine, Florida.
2000 • Works on display at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Orlando, FL.
2001 • Solo stone sculpture show at D.O.C.S art gallery in New Orleans, LA.
(Pieces in Marble, alabaster, steatite and sandstone).
2002 • Paintings and sculptures on display at Laporta’s in Coral Gables, FL.
2002 • Opening, with marble and steel sculptures at Sanmar Gallery
in St. Augustine FL.
• Opening with steatite, alabaster and marble stone : “Pillow Series” at Dreamstudios art gallery in Jacksonville FL.
2003 • Works in Rachel Thompson’s Gallery, St. Augustine, FL.
2003 • Solo stone sculpture show at D.O.C.S art gallery in New Orleans, LA.
2004 • Opening with sculptures at Mayfield Gallery, Ponte Vedra, Florida.
2005 • Opening with sculptures at St. Augustine High Art Gallery.
• Sculptural Works on display at the permanent collection in Savanah, of the Mansion Hotel at Forsyth Park.
• Opening with sculptures, Show originally destined for
D.O.C.S gallery in New Olreans, cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina. • Opening with sculptures at Fogle Fine Arts in Jacksonville, Fl.
2006 • Opening, curator and participant: “Art by Tattoo Artists”
at Mystic Bean, St. Augustine FL.
2007 • St. Augustine History Series Commission for Casa Monica Hotel, 5 portraits of local historic female figures.
2008 • Florida Hiatory Series. 3 large format paintings for The Kessler Collection Entreprise, private collector.