Calvin Marcus

Calvin Marcus

BornNationalityBased In
1988AmericanLos Angeles
Biography

When people describe his paintings as “absurd”, Calvin Marcus notes that such description is produced out of the feeling that “there shouldn’t be paintings like his”. A floating coca-cola next to an elephant, gigantic nipple on a grass, a naked woman-mountain and cows stretching over the horizon, Marcus’s large paintings are extremely bold in both colour and depiction. The artist is interested in confrontation, with his audience, with an artistic persona, as well as logical parameters of painting as a medium. Stripped of unnecessary detail and drowning in the sea of colour, Marcus’s works are open spaces of unnerving meaning unconnected to one another. Born in 1988 in San Francisco and now based in LA, Marcus creates dazzling uncomfort that strikes directly at his viewer’s subjectivity. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Green Calvin
Calvin MarcusGreen Calvin, 2014
123.19 x 245.11 x 12.7cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
158.12 x 202.56cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
158.12 x 202.56cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Filthy Couple
Calvin MarcusFilthy Couple, 2020
200.66 x 257.81cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021
114.3 x 152.4cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2022
159 x 202cm
Sphinx
Calvin MarcusSphinx, 2020
258 x 201cm
Fish Lamp
Calvin MarcusFish Lamp, 2020
250 x 70 x 40cm
Fish Lamp - desk
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2020
10 x 26 x 26cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2020
13 x 36 x 29cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2020
11 x 26 x 20cm
Untitled (grass)
Dead Soldier
Calvin MarcusDead Soldier, 2018
258 x 200.6cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2022
61.5 x 76cm
Untitled
Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2022
29.84 x 38.1cm
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