Calvin Marcus

Untitled, 2021114.94 x 153.04cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGallery

watercolor, oil, vinyl and emulsified gesso on linen/cotton blendClearing

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This vibrant contemporary artwork features a bold and dynamic interplay of colors and organic shapes. The prominent use of vibrant red, orange, and green hues creates a striking visual impact, with the intricate branching patterns of the leaves evoking a sense of growth and movement. The overall composition has a surreal, almost psychedelic quality, highlighting the artist's skilled use of abstraction and experimentation with nature-inspired forms. Through this visually captivating piece, the artist explores the inherent beauty and complexity found within the natural world, inviting the viewer to engage with the work on a deeper, emotive level. ...

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Artist

Calvin Marcus

B.1988, American

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 ...

Calvin Marcus: Artworks

Calvin MarcusGreen Calvin, 2014Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021Price on Request

Calvin MarcusFilthy Couple, 2020Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2021Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2022Price on Request

Calvin MarcusSphinx, 2020Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2022Price on Request

Calvin MarcusFish Lamp, 2020Price on Request

Calvin MarcusFish Lamp - desk, 2019Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2020Price on Request

Calvin MarcusWild Salmon, spaghetti in red sauce and peas, 2022Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled (grass), 2021Price on Request

Calvin MarcusDead Soldier, 2018Price on Request

Calvin MarcusUntitled, 2022Price on Request

Gallery

Clearing

New York City, Los Angeles, Brussels

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...