NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
The images that I chose represent my most recent series of work. I produce about 10 to 20 works per series. In each series i try to explore new images as well as inventing new processes It keeps me excited about producing new work. I am a printmaker try to make art with the printmaking processes. I produce large scale work on paper that makes use of all the traditional ways of making work.I use collagraph,digital photography, painting and drawing crossing conventional lines of thinking about what the print can be. I am now a retired Professor of Art from Washington University in St.Louis after teaching for over 40 years.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Peter Marcus’ recent focus is on “The New American Family,” the title of his recent exhibition at the Newport Art Museum. Marcus creates large-scale composite prints using a unique collagraph printmaking process. He says that his work crosses boundaries between painting, printmaking and drawing. As a professor of art at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, for over thirty years, Marcus began experimenting with large prints of buildings. After several years of retirement in Jamestown, Rhode Island, he turned his attention to the face, creating provocative portraits of his friends and family. Originally from New York, Marcus obtained a BS from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Brooklyn College, with special studies in printmaking at the Scuola del Libro in Urbana, Italy. Marcus has exhibited nationally and is represented in the collections of the Newport Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum and Dallas Museum of Art, among others.
Source: Networks 2015 – 2016 Catalogue
Collagraph painting, 60 x 96 in.
Credits:
Video by: Richard Goulis
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.
Additional Resources:
Artist’s website: http://www.petermarcusprints.com/
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
