- Little Marvin
Little Marvin is a New York and
Paris -based multimedia, conceptual and performance artist and filmmaker. His paintings, photography, video and sculptural installations explore comically, however graphically, themes of fame, sex and power while deconstructing the imagery of Black men prevalent in contemporary media."What emerges through these images is a subtle analysis of individual identity, both the fantasies that it generates and the forces that shape it. This immersion in the uncertain, conflictual zones where individual identity struggles with the collective imaginary, stereotypes and issues of symbolic power, can be either playful or—when it touches on horror and repulsion —unflinchingly dark." [citation | title= The (Not So) Little World of Little Marvin | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2007 | date= May 17, 2006 | accessdate=2008-04-17 ]
Recurring motifs include music videos, prison, basketballs, sneakers, appropriated fashion adverts and various Black pop culture icons, such as
50 Cent ,Suge Knight ,Snoop Doggy Dogg andMike Tyson .Little Marvin was a 2007 nominee for the Lambent Fellowship from the Tides Foundation for his performance and multimedia work.
In 2006, he was the executive producer of The Time is Now, a docu-narrative by Kenneth Brady. The experimental, single person film deals with the involvement of the United States in war crimes abroad and the need for a US Truth & Reconciliation Commission to aid survivors of torture.
In April of that same year, a movie trailer for a purported Little Marvin film entitled "
Michael Jackson Movie" appeared onYouTube . Largely considered to be a hoax, the trailer has received over 36,000 hits to date.Little Marvin has been featured in various magazines, among them Esquire Magazine's Style Issue, [cite journal| journal=Esquire Magazine| title=The Lounge | author = Christopher Griffith | year = 2007 | month = March | volume = 147 | issue = 3 | pages = pg. 169] and interviewed in New York Magazine's Video Look Book and DNR Magazine's "They Are Wearing: New York". [cite journal | journal = DNR Magazine | title = They Are Wearing: East Coast | author = Jenni Cheng | date =
12 February ,2007 | pages = pg. 58]External Links
[http://www.littlemarvin.com Little Marvin's Official Site]
[http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/10/little_marvin_sports_broke_bar.html Little Marvin in New York Magazine Video Look Book]
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
