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 Marcus
Green Calvin, 2014
123.19 x 245.11 x 12.7cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
158.12 x 202.56cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
158.12 x 202.56cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
114.94 x 153.04cm
Filthy Couple
Calvin Marcus
Filthy Couple, 2020
200.66 x 257.81cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2021
114.3 x 152.4cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2022
159 x 202cm
Sphinx
Calvin Marcus
Sphinx, 2020
258 x 201cm
Fish Lamp
Calvin Marcus
Fish Lamp, 2020
250 x 70 x 40cm
Fish Lamp - desk
Calvin Marcus
Fish Lamp - desk, 2019
57 x 32cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2020
10 x 26 x 26cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2020
13 x 36 x 29cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2020
11 x 26 x 20cm
Wild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas
Calvin Marcus
Wild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas, 2022
28.5 x 17cm
Wild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas
Calvin Marcus
Wild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas, 2022
25.5 x 18cm
Wild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas
Calvin Marcus
Wild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas, 2022
26.5 x 19.5cm
Untitled (grass)
Calvin Marcus
Untitled (grass), 2021
59 x 73.8cm
Dead Soldier
Calvin Marcus
Dead Soldier, 2018
258 x 200.6cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2022
61.5 x 76cm
Untitled
Calvin Marcus
Untitled, 2022
29.84 x 38.1cm
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